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The Tool Shed - 3
4: This photo shows dividers being used to scribe a cut line
on a piece of brass. A permanent marker was used to coat the
area that will be scribed so that the scribe line could easily be
seen while cutting the stripe to the desired width.
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My feeling is that, if you practice accuracy when building
even simple structures, you won’t be overwhelmed when
you take on large, complex structures.
A more accurate approach to laying out the sides of this sim-
ple building is to use a divider. Set the divider to the width of
the face of the building and transfer that measure to the
material being used for the building by pricking two very
tiny holes in the material with the dividers. Then “walk”
the dividers (2-3, prior pages) to make another prick mark.
These three prick marks set the width of the front and back
sides of the building. Marking them with the same divider
setting ensures that they will be exactly the same width.
Once you have prick marks for these two pieces, use a small
machinist square to ensure that your cuts are perpendicu-
lar to the bottom edge of your material as you cut them to
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