Got this frame grab from the Sacred Craft video on Surfline. Looks pretty cheap to make- I saw the clamps at Home Depot yesterday for .99$ a pop. Pro & Cons? I thinking about making one using wingnuts instead of clamps.
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He won the freakin shape off... it must work. I think he shaped the step deck contour perfectly. No doubt that tool helped.
Your idea of a rocker gauge design with wingnuts sounds good.
Did you see his cross section contour gauge with giant paper clips used as feelers?
just temporary tools for the occasion. His real rocker sticks,rail guages etc. are well engineered and very accurate.
Congratulations on that step-deck WR.
Destiny?
I could not get a good picture, but he did have some sort of a rail/dome gauge deal. Is that what you are referring to?
I just mostly saw Wayne making really nice precision cuts, deck contour, rails and carving in the step deck, then cleaning up all the rough cuts with the planer. That in itself was way impressive. The rocker gauge is the simplest set up I have ever seen used by anyone.
"I could not get a good picture, but he did have some sort of a rail/dome gauge deal. Is that what you are referring to?"
Yes
how could he have lost? with all the gadgets and help he had measuring everything. it was almost like a computer.
When you're hot you're hot.
Nice low tech method for doing the the deck rocker.
At home I set the board on my shaping racks with vertical posts on each end.
The posts hold mateial vertically above the stringer.
A round can or whatnot attaches to a pencil, Sharpie, whatever, and scribes the deck or bottom curve. That curve can even be incorporated into the stringer side of a half full length template if you want to save space and have ready access to it for a certain length model.
Keep it simple.
Have fun.
That's the way to pull a rocker template, DS. Jim Phillips showed me that one, we would pre-cut material to a rocker that was close (when you've got a collection of rocker templates that's easy) to minimize the size of the spacer when scribing. Working off rocker templates is so much easier than measuring (and remeasuring, and re.....). And you get a set of curves you can overlay for comparison, tweaking, generating new ones from proven curves, etc., etc. You're a pro's pro .
So is Wayne Rich. All those temporary tools for the shape-off, where you wouldn't have time to pull and cut templates, are the schizzle.
[img_assist|nid=1051079|title=deck gauge|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=480]I think this is the deck gauge flatlands - from a previous post that someone was helping me on. I wasn’t at Sacred Craft 
Awesome...a thinking man!!
Ive been thinking about it too..any ideas how the rod/stick is balanced there? is it the 'thickness' of the little indicator tabs that gives it the balance or is there some thing I am missing??
M
You just think that Wayne is looking at the profile cleavege … ahh … contour gauge
saltbush
Ballance = look at the set of green right angles in the middle of the stick.
**I wouldn’t delve into it more than that they are measuring devises to replicate an exact copy of the chosen board. These tools used for sacred craft were deigned and built to be portable and the measurements were taken just before going into the shaping room. The board was from 1966 ~ with a rolled bottom, and a two hour time limit to complete a 10’ 0” spoon. Start to finish. The outline was provided by Yater.. **
yorky
got it!!! and here \i was thinking he was just balancing the rod at each end...I assume the little T shaped balancer is at centre?
cheers mate
M
…by eye
you ll surprised about how precise are the eyes if you got skills and experience in certain shapes.After the work is very cool when you confirm that with tools
Develop and eye is a task that takes work; I think is not possible for the machined guys
the problem always is the working time
very difficult in 2 hours by eye
