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It's called scribing. It's what joiners should do when fitting skirting boards to a solid wood floor, for example - but don't. Or at least didn't in ours because it takes time, skill and attention to detail.
 
Too easy Nigel.
 
FWIW, I was taught to use odd-leg calipers or a pair of compasses set to the gap where it's at its widest. That way, you get a full fit with minimum loss of material. As @Ardachaidh noted, it's called 'scribing' if you're a joiner or 'spiling' if you're a shipwright.
 
When scribing to my van walls, I cut a small piece of wood to the size of the widest part of the gap and taped a pencil to it, worked fine.

For the really awkward bit at the top double-sided tape and cardboard til it was perfick.

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An old but good idea.
In the seventies, we used to go around the junctions of the walls with a 45rpm record with a pencil in the hole to give us borders that we could paint in contrasting colours to the walls.
 
Hello Bear :D :D which record was it?
 
Ardachaidh said:
It's called scribing. It's what joiners should do when fitting skirting boards to a solid wood floor, for example - but don't. Or at least didn't in ours because it takes time, skill and attention to detail.
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Weren’t joiners then….
 
Whats the difference between a joiner, a carpenter and a cabinet maker.

A cabinet maker works to a hundredth of an inch.

A carpenter works to a tenth of an inch.

A joiner works to the nearest house.
 
Short brothers airplane factory was next to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. A guy who worked on the assembly line of the aircraft was boasting to his mate. “When we build an airplane, we work to one thou accuracy”.
His mate who was a welder in the shipyard just laughed, “when we build a ship, everything has to be dead on”.

Davy
 
TeamRienza said:
Short brothers airplane factory was next to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. A guy who worked on the assembly line of the aircraft was boasting to his mate. “When we build an airplane, we work to one thou accuracy”.
His mate who was a welder in the shipyard just laughed, “when we build a ship, everything has to be dead on”.

Davy
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loved working in the yard.boat b.jpg
 
Bobtaylor said:
Weren’t joiners then….
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Quite. We ordered lengths of kick board for the kitchen units they were fitting in the new build. A long bit for the long stretch in front of the window, 2 shorter bits for other units - just needing trimming to size. What did he do? He cut the long bit to fit in one of the shorter sections and joined a short length to the remains of the long length he'd cut for the units in front of the window. Unbelievable!!
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Whats the difference between a joiner, a carpenter and a cabinet maker.

A cabinet maker works to a hundredth of an inch.

A carpenter works to a tenth of an inch.

A joiner works to the nearest house.
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An engineer was talking to a tarmac layer. The engineer said "in my job I have to work to tolerances of thousandths of an inch"
Paddy says " you'd be no good on my gang, when we lay tarmac, we've got to be spot on!".....🐻😉
 
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