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Nah, you buy a finer ruler! I also find myself doing a fair amount of machining, and one of the things I have to remind myself is that I don’t need .001” accur
by abakker 8y ago
Nah, you buy a finer ruler!
I also find myself doing a fair amount of machining, and one of the things I have to remind myself is that I don’t need .001” accuracy in wood.
- Jedd 8y agoI hear you. When I'm working with a chainsaw I'm 'accurate' to within several millimetres. Through a tablesaw or bandsaw etc I'm closer to 1-2 millimetres accuracy. It's rare I need to get to thickenesser levels of accuracy (0.5 millimetres, say) ... but I usually work with more forgiving softer timbers. A friend of mine does some seriously precise metalwork - down to 'thousands of an inch' (he's English, but has lived in AU for some decades). It's beyond my realm, though the level of accuracy transcends measurement systems -- whether it's thousands of inches, or extra zeroes after the dot for fractions of a mm -- it's a matter of tooling, or, as I say, gradations on your rule!
- abakker 8y agoYeah, consistency is really the important one. Almost none of my projects in wood are built "to spec". So, as long as the thickness is consistent between boards, the table will be flat, the joinery will match, etc. Conversely, in metal, pretty much 100% of my projects are built to a plan, since they tend to be parts of machinery/tools/jigs that need to be the reference surfaces. Oh, the money i've spent on measuring equipment. yeesh.