thick_mike
Wood Shortener
My house was obviously built before the right angle was invented. We had the whole house surveyed and apparently there’s one right angle hidden in a built in wardrobe in my son’s room. I’m building a drawer unit for shoes in the hallway, so I thought I’d use a method I’ve always wanted to try because it’s so ingenious, to wit, the ticking stick.
This is the space...
you need to make a ticking stick, which can be any random shape with a pointy end. You put a board in place in the space you want to fit, and place your stick with the pointy end in the corner.
Then draw round the stick, tracing the shaped onto the board.
When you have marked each corner, you place the board onto the sheet you want to cut the shelf from and replace the stick and line it up with one of the marks.
Then mark the point onto the sheet.
Measuretwice three times and cut once.
I cut the plywood slightly large so that I could scribe to our wonky walls.
And the shelf fits!
This is the space...
you need to make a ticking stick, which can be any random shape with a pointy end. You put a board in place in the space you want to fit, and place your stick with the pointy end in the corner.
Then draw round the stick, tracing the shaped onto the board.
When you have marked each corner, you place the board onto the sheet you want to cut the shelf from and replace the stick and line it up with one of the marks.
Then mark the point onto the sheet.
Measure
I cut the plywood slightly large so that I could scribe to our wonky walls.
And the shelf fits!
