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Tips from our editors: the greatest gift for handicraft hobbyists
by Carolin Teufelberger
No more risk of confusion
29.10.2020
Translation: machine translated
If you throw yourself into a wooden project, at some point you won't be able to see the table for all the boards. We're talking about putting the individual parts together correctly. A simple trick from the carpenter will save you from confusion and mistakes.
In front of you are several planks of wood that you have cut with a circular saw. The workshop smells wonderfully of spruce. This scent and the prospect of a project that will soon be perfectly finished inspire you. You cheerfully start to glue the boards together. The delayed reaction caused by the vapours from the wood glue only makes you realise halfway through: something is wrong!
You haven't marked the individual pieces of wood and now have the nastiest blemishes in the most conspicuous places instead of on the back. Or the grain of your table top is unsightly. Or maybe it worked, but it's now dark outside and the dinner is over because you've been arranging pieces of wood for hours.
Triangles bring order
The carpentry triangle helps you in such cases. It shows you where the top, bottom, left and right are in a frame, glued boards or other two-dimensional projects. To do this, lay out your cut wood as you would like it to be in the end and then draw parts of a triangle on it very lightly with a pencil.
This way, you'll never put the individual parts together incorrectly again. And you can also prevent the eternal guessing game, latent uncertainty and chaos with the carpenter's triangle. Incidentally, this trick can also be used in a modified form to dismantle and reassemble your wardrobe when you're ironing. You can quickly mark the base, lid and side walls.
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