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Honestly, I was cutting my own templates for years before I saw how dumb it was
Tbh, I was on a job in Fresno last month, putting in a custom arched transom window. I was on my knees with cardboard and a knife, hacking out my usual template, and the homeowner's kid, maybe ten years old, walks by and says, 'My dad just prints those from his computer.' Ngl, it stopped me cold. I went home that night and looked up how to do it. You just take a photo with your phone, trace it in a free drawing app, and send it to a plotter. I borrowed one from a buddy's shop and cut a perfect template in two minutes. I'd been wasting maybe an hour per tricky piece for the last six years, easy. It makes me wonder what other old habits I'm stuck in. Has anyone else had a moment like that with a basic part of the job?
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barbara_butler6mo ago
Imagine a ten-year-old showing you that!
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cooper.reese6mo ago
But sometimes the old way gives you a better feel for the material than a printout ever could.
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