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Cutting wood using templates or manually drawn
depressd:
I used a template for cutting my control panel out. I love using paper templates for this. You don't have to worry about your stock being square or anything. I usually use tape for the template. Then when a taped edge is cut I simply tape it down again. I personally haven't had any problems with this. And will continue to use templates.
hyiu:
I did more or less exactly like what witchboard did...
I did all my cp template on visio... then I print it on mulitple pages... (yes my cp is bigger than a legal size paper...)
then I take my time and align the paper and tape it back together....
then I tape it on to my CP piece....
since its mostly button holes or screw holes... I use a nail and tap a little hole on the wood on the places that I need to drill... and for anything that you need to cut.... just tap the nail to show the corners... then you don't have to measure at all....
then I take that paper back off and start drilling....
I've done 3 already.... so far so good..... ;) ;D
brained:
I know that templates for control panel are ok. But my main concern is for the rest of the stuff!!!. I've drew my template in a 4'x8' in visio. so I can just print the pages, glue tape or glue them together, then just lay it on the 4x8 mdf and cut da hell out of it.
I've seen some companies sell templates for cutting the wood, so I though my homemade templates might work. Any one has used paper templates to CUT THE CABINET, not the CP.
Witchboard:
Oh, I misunderstood. I would just do it on the board itself. Get one side the way you want it then use a router to cut the other side using your first side as a template. That way, both sides are the same.
Sylentwulf:
You COULD do it with the cabinet templates like that, but the sheer amount of ink, time, paper, and pain-in-the-assedness of it all, it would probably just be easier to buy the templates, or try kinko's with your templates.
Taping together 8 feet worth of 8 inch papers would not be fun.
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