Camel(fish)back straight edge

[Westfield-builder]

Noah built the Ark,
Professionals built the Titanic.

 

[Pete.]

Noah built the Ark,
Professionals built the Titanic.

My favourite Bernard Manning joke - What do Alan Ball and the Titanic have in common? They are both f'kin sorry they ever left Southampton

 

[pressbrake1]

What's that supposed to mean? People who excel at their hobby and take the time to show it off to the world, to encourage others to strive to excel themselves should be celebrated not denigrated as they add positively to society and the goodwill of all.

Exactly what I said. His workmanship and patience are exceptional.
Someone unless in the higher realms such as instrument and mega precision slip and use short cuts and can lack the love to create such work. Look at model engineering for example, impossible to recreate in a commercial environment.

It’s twice in this thread you’ve taken offence, perhaps the mods should take it down

 

[Pete.]

I haven't taken offence, though I do admit I read more into your last comment than it seems there was so for that I apologise. It was rather open to interpretation though. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing though, some monumental discoveries have come from it and often it's far preferable to mundane back-slapping.

You will find that generally I will only link to someone's home page/website if I think there's something positive to be had from it. From what I can see and what little I know from meeting THAT guy, everything about him is up-beat and positive though a more modest and self-effacing guy you'd be unlikely to meet. More people should be like him the world would be a much nicer place.

 

[minimutly]

The whole "professional" thing makes me laugh - "John has just had his car converted proffessionally" - implying it must be a good, or better job than someone who does it himself, gets my goat a bit.
I'm rebuilding a Yamaha Vmax 1200 trike - came with a stack of bills from someone running a business specialising in these things - £thousands, and I mean thousands spent fitting special this, special that, then , according to its history, a replacement engine - actually a worn out heap. And what of all the "special bits"? No sign of them.
Carburettors - simple things, but need to be treated with care and precision - one look at them - screws butchered, badly out of sync, threads stripped. But it must be OK cos it was done "professionally".
Anyway, gripe over, not casting aspersions on any pros on here.

 

[pressbrake1]

Professional is a over used word.
First foundry I tried couldn’t produce quality I attained melting in a bonfire and cast into dirt

 

[phm87]

I wonder if he has a tin of green touch up paint handy, he must get vexed when he chips something!
Yes, I am very jealous, though I bet there is no radio blasting out tunes very often?

 

[pressbrake1]

Patterns finished , busy fool needs to keep busy and I’m kinda bored with metal so wood is entertaining!

 

[pressbrake1]

After a customer complained about my lack of corporate clothing I had these done

 

[pressbrake1]

Today’s job making 48” straight camelback . Getting to be a bad habit!
Ran out of glue so couldn’t finish doing names.
This should be light so casting price should be sensible, probably not though

 

[mtt.tr]

Professional is a over used word.
First foundry I tried couldn’t produce quality I attained melting in a bonfire and cast into dirt

Problem is they are professional casters for decorative work, sadly so much skill has been lost that it has become considered top quality work.
So finding a proper firm is very hard.

 

[pressbrake1]

Problem is they are professional casters for decorative work, sadly so much skill has been lost that it has become considered top quality work.
So finding a proper firm is very hard.

Casters have wheels, foundrymen cast metal

 

[mtt.tr]

Casters have wheels, foundrymen cast metal

lamps glow, bulbs grow

 

[Brad93]

On speaking to him he’d googled what a camelback was and watched a few videos.
I reckon he’d looked up Richard King straight edge prices and thought I was killing it

Thats because the people making the decisions had worked their way up the ladder, they understood the problems and how to over come them.

Then someone had the bright idea to put the bean counters in charge, all of a sudden you didn't need to know what you were doing so long as it increased the balance sheet bottom line. The men that would have the knowledge stayed where they were On the tools, to do as they were told and not to question higher up the pay scale.

The writing was on the wall, usually the bog wall

Doesn’t even have to be bean counters, university students with a degree in history, art or some other useless study, without a real interest or passion for engineering.

 

[Munkul]

Your patterns are superb, I've just read this thread and thoroughly enjoyed it, apart from the problems with foundry castings of course.

Seems like this would be a problem for everyone wanting machine grade iron castings these days.

Is it not a case of "your castings aren't up to quality so I won't be paying" type thing?

The "quality" foundry that wanted another £500 - those ones are ok? so they cost more, is it not still worth it? Sorry, just trying to wrap my head around it all.

Will they not work with you to get the quality that you want?

 

[Milkybars]

@mankul I think you can work with "quailty" people. But I am sure that the way @pressbrake1 has been treated is far removed from that, in fact i'd go as far as to say the bloke is a vulgar term used to descibe a vagina/vulva.

 

[pressbrake1]

Doesn’t even have to be bean counters, university students with a degree in history, art or some other useless study, without a real interest or passion for engineering.

I worked at a place where the head of development had a English degree from Cambridge .
Frightful snob and would pull you up on missing out a comma but had zero interest or knowledge in engineering and the mathematical ability of a junior school child so was of no use other than a editor to make sure report syntax was spot on. Bizarre
Another place I subbed for the drawings were wrong and they thought I’d suffer the costs.
I challenged about it to be told they must be correct Elliott has a degree. On speaking to Elliott he had a very poor pass in media studies.....ffs

 

[Shox Dr]

I worked at a place where the head of development had a English degree from Cambridge .
Frightful snob and would pull you up on missing out a comma but had zero interest or knowledge in engineering and the mathematical ability of a junior school child so was of no use other than a editor to make sure report syntax was spot on. Bizarre
Another place I subbed for the drawings were wrong and they thought I’d suffer the costs.
I challenged about it to be told they must be correct Elliott has a degree. On speaking to Elliott he had a very poor pass in media studies.....ffs

I worked with a young lad who had left Teeside uni with a 1st masters in Aeronautics. Very very nice lad, was like a sponge for information. Knew how everything should be, but didn't have a clue how it get to that point.

 

[pressbrake1]

18” pattern for tight space.
Used last of the wood up so this is the final one!

 

[pressbrake1]

Nearly finished pattern for 18”x12” square.
Some no name chipped my granite reference square so I decided to make some cast iron workshop squares for setting up etc