hey guys a friend of mine asked me to make her a wooden board thats just like a sheet of plywood so she and a freind can paint it and hang it in the one girls room. i was thinking about making it w/ 3/4" plywood that i have but it is only 19" wide… and the slimmest template i have is 20-1/2"… does anyone know how to resize pdf’s while still keeping them porportional so i can use my template and some wood? also, i am puttins some homemade fins on it, and i dont know anything about fin placement and angleing, can someone help me with that as well? thanks -cam
Ohhhkay, a few things:
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hey guys a friend of mine asked me to make her a wooden board thats just like a sheet of plywood so she and a freind can paint it and hang it in the one girls room.
So this doesn’t have to be a working surfboard or even all that close. It’s decor, ya know? They’re gonna paint a piece of plywood. Don’t put too much into it. It’s not even your girlfriend it’s for, it’s for her friend, right? No big deal. Besides which, are you getting paid for this?
Ask how long it needs to be-where it is gonna go on the wall. Then go from there with whatever shape they like. For instance, something that looks vaguely like a longboard, is 19" wide by 8’ long. Make something up. Symmetrical is all you need to worry about. That and make sure they don’t get any splinters. Sand the edges pretty good, ya know? Splinters can tick off most girlfriends.
Fin placement - well, are the fins gonna show? Again, if they are, then just fake it. Nobody is gonna surf this thing unless a tsunami hits their neighborhood, okay? It doesn’t matter at all whether they are perfectly located… stuff a couple sheetrock screws through from the other side plus a little bit of glue and that’s done. Where the little attachments on the back go to hang it on the wall is way more important.
As an aside, I knew a guy who ‘shaped’ surfboards for photo shoots, magazine ads and such. That’s pretty much all he did, with a very few exceptions. Those very few exceptions were maybe the worst boards I ever saw. Though the way this guy surfed, I don’t think it would have mattered.
Plus, he was the only guy I ever saw, before or since, who ever surfed wearing a toupee. Really. Whenever he had a wipeout ( that is, about three seconds, tops, after he caught the wave. Lets say he made it down the line about twelve feet on his best days ) we’d be watching to see if he came up with it or not. Musta been Real Good Glue, I guess.
Though in hindsight, it was a miracle he came up at all. The guy also wore enough gold chains ( The Mister T starter kit ) to take him headfirst to the bottom in a heartbeat. Prolly why he only surfed dinky days, when the water was less than chest deep…
doc…
take 20" template,
draw line 1/2" off the center line,
new line becomes new centre point,
finished template now 19" wide insteat of 20".
will be shorter but its a piece of decor like doc says.
simple.
Doc…
toupee-surfer, priceless man, just priceless!
If its ornamental, I did a half plan shape with fins and hung it as a book shelf, looks great but even if it had another half would almost deffinately sink…who cares?
Peace!
doc- youre right im overthinking this… lol thanks for the stories… mr. t starter kit… thats pretty funny… anyways thanks for the info guys!
De nada, man. Remember: “Perfection is the mortal enemy of Good Enough”. It’s real easy to overthink things, trying to do a whole lot more than is really necessary.
I remember one time, helping Stan the Man mount a clam pump to a diesel engine.
Now, you have to understand Stan. At one time he was a tool and die machinist and a very good one. If you needed to build a machine from scratch to make something unusual, Stan was your guy.
Eventually, he burned out on that and came here and became a fisherman. Chasing sea clams at the time, nice little setup he had. And he relocated the pump, changed a bunch of stuff. And we needed to redo the pump mount. Ideally, so it all lined up within maybe 1/100 of an inch, 'cos if it was too far out, with a whole lot of horsepower driving it, things would vibrate and go kerblam and you might have a few hundred pounds of cast-iron pump flailing around in there.
So, we went well past 1/100 - we were actually shooting for 1/1000, measuring off the cast couplings between pump and diesel engine. The closer, the smoother, the better. Machinist tolerances, tool and die maker tolerances. But after a couple of hours, we couldn’t get closer than 5/1000 of an inch, no matter what we tried.
So, at last, I measured the couplings themselves. They were not any closer than 5/1000, and that’s when we called it a day. Castings are only made so close and no better, beyond that you can’t go.
Nor should you really try…
doc… and yes, there’s more to the toupee story…
Just Print the PDF at 92% size,
Under the advanced settings is an option to scale.
Where ever you have been taking the file to print can size it.
Hey Doc
… and yes, there’s more to the toupee story…
when’s the next installment, I’ll set the computer to record!
Peace!