I made an interesting find on a jobsite a little while
ago. I discovered a Contractor's tool I
had not seen before. I had often
wondered how Contractors replicated the many curves that we, the designers,
sweat and fret over on paper and in the computer. The center to a radius is sometimes located
twenty to thirty feet from the curve, in the next room or even outside of the
building. What fabulous, computer guided
set of French Curve tools the Contractor must require for such a task. We must be talking laser levels and GPS, right?
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| High Precision Curve Making Tool |
I don't mean to expose the "man behind the
curtain" or anything. But a broken
pen taken from a bank, some electrical tape and a bent wire are used to create
our graceful curves and detailing. Just
goes to remind you that we do not control the means and methods of those
performing the work.
