dont you just hate when this happens

[sunnybob]

I got a box outline on my computer to make a bandsaw box. a very curved, flowing design.
Just for a change, i decided this pattern lent itself to being a pair (right and left opening)
So i scanned the shape and printed it. then I did a mirror image and printed it.
taped the paper to the blanks, cut them out, and after quite a lot of shaping and sanding, i realised one is an inch shorter than the other!
W.T.F?

Far too late to start again. They are so different side by side that no one could miss it.
So now I have a left handed box and a smaller right handed box.

 

[NazNomad]

Just market the smaller one as an 'apprentice piece'. ;-)

 

[Alexam]

How about a photo then ?

 

[sunnybob]

Alex, theyre still not ready for cameras. a couple coats of wipe on poly might make them more appealling than they are right now.

I've just gone back to the saved images, and flicking from one to the next the size difference is obvious. but why would the computer do that? all i clicked was mirror image. And no, I cant blame windows 10, because I havent got it. This is an 8 year old vista laptop.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Make another opposing "pair".

 

[sunnybob]

Leave off, if I mirror image again, I'll have a set of babushka boxes.

 

[Homerjh]

scaled to page size when printing rather than 100?

 

[Bod]

Leave off, if I mirror image again, I'll have a set of babushka boxes.

Good selling point, Russians been doing it for years.
Sell as "pass the parcel" boxes.

Bod

 

[sunnybob]

Homerj; I did nothing, changed nothing.

Scan. accept. scan another? accept. mirror? accept.
That was the sum total of my involvement.
You cant blame me, nobody saw me do anything.

 

[Bm101]

Homerj; I did nothing, changed nothing.

Scan. accept. scan another? accept. mirror? accept.
That was the sum total of my involvement.
You cant blame me, nobody saw me do anything.

Come on Bob, make an effort.
'Nobody saw me do nuffink.'


Completely different situation but reminds of a fella that used to work with my Mrs at a global pharmaceutical company as quite a well paid and very high level research scientist who would measure dimensions on his computer screen with a ruler. Actually hold the ruler up to the screen and then wonder why his measurements didn't add up.

 

[Wuffles]

Simple enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Homerj; I did nothing, changed nothing.

Scan. accept. scan another? accept. mirror? accept.
That was the sum total of my involvement.
You cant blame me, nobody saw me do anything.

Come on Bob, make an effort.
'Nobody saw me do nuffink.'


Completely different situation but reminds of a fella that used to work with my Mrs at a global pharmaceutical company as quite a well paid and very high level research scientist who would measure dimensions on his computer screen with a ruler. Actually hold the ruler up to the screen and then wonder why his measurements didn't add up.

My friend removed rust with wet and dry ... from his feeler gauges ...

 

[sunnybob]

hey, what part of "it wasnt me" isnt getting across here?

I'm not a little boy herding sheep you know. White man he speak with straight tongue.

part of me really wants to know what happened, but the other part is too busy drinking red wine to care.

 

[Bm101]

part of me really wants to know what happened, but the other part is too busy drinking red wine to care.

No idea Bob. *Clinks Cider bottle

 

[sunnybob]

Cider?
one of my many life experiences was working at Taunton Cider. i have SEEN what goes into cider.

i aint that brave......
smelly feet from crushing the grapes is no comparison at all.

 

[Bm101]

lol. This very day I've just had a 100 litre delivery from the Lyme Bay Winery of Devon. God Bless em. Christ knows what the neighbours think. It comes on a pallet. Award winning Jack Ratt scrumpy. Works out about a pound a pint. Tastes alright to me. If we're going to get technical most of us wouldn't eat any processed food if we saw the processes. Didn't they used to put meat into cider at one point? I'm a member of that naked wines too. Worth checking out maybe. Some great wines but I can't be doing with the marketing where they pretend to be my best mate. Just stop. It's taken me ten years to get rid of my real life mates. Why would I want to replace them with a marketing department chav.

 

[sunnybob]

meat? oh yes, crows , rabbits, anything that was on the ground when the tractor and mechanical sweeper collected the windfalls.

 

[Wuffles]

Just stop. It's taken me ten years to get rid of my real life mates. Why would I want to replace them with a marketing department chav.

Hi.

 

[Bm101]

lol. you'll do well scaring me Bob. Ever wonder when you put your sugar in your tea how many rats have been in all those warehouse along the process?

 

[sunnybob]

Funny you should say that, I had to throw away my sugar caddy half full just this afternoon for that very reason. TRUE!!
I've been in the food industry one way and another for almost all my working life, seen things that really would put you off your food, but this is just a bit of fun.