Tom, Your metal tubing idea would be a good one. I don't do much metal work, but this would be a great way to go. If I had to flatten a side of the dowel by hand I would probably work it with a rasp, with the dowel clamped hear the edge of my work bench. After I got part of it flattened, maybe I could get a small saw in there to finish the job. As usual, hand tools take more time. Could you get part of it cut with a plane? Blessings, tom -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Tom Fowle Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:34 PM To: blindHandyMan Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device:
tom, This is a very fancy and neat "story stick." idea. I'm trying to think of how to do the half flat on the dowell without power tools I wonder if one could get a chunk of square extruded tubing and a rod that'd fit it. This might allow one to tap the bolt into the outside square piece thus avoiding the need for the half flat. Also might be more stable with the square outside. Just pondering how to make it all much too fancy and hard <GRIN> Neat design. Tom Fowle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
