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Does anyone know where I can find Colin Symond's tutorial on making the side profile with the masking tape and the radius dish? I had a link to it on my website, but now the link doesn't work. I can't seem to find it by using the search method here.....

Thanks!

While I'm at it, I can't figure out how to put those "smilies" into a message....I feel dumb.

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Kathy Matsushita
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Kathy my friend just click on the "smiles" located to the left of the box/window that you write your post in and they will show up in your post.

I'll look for Colin's method too and try to find it.

It's that easy? I was trying to drag it to the message, and then I didn't see anything happening in the Preview screen.
Okay...here I am trying that...

I still don't see anything in the Preview.....but I'm going to submit it anyway....maybe some things don't show in the Preview screen?

HA!!!! IT WORKED!!!! Thanks, Hesh!!! (Now I can post fancier messages...)

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Kathy Matsushita
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Hi Kathy - congrats on the smilies....

I found this post by Colin: Colin S
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Check out the Jigs tools and techniques section for a simple method of side profiling using your dishes a simplied version of this with a piec of scrap wood and a pencil should get you close. Useful for the first time you build a new body shape. After the first one you can make a template from the finished side, for you next build.

Colin

Hesh again: and I tried the link at the top of this page to the jigs section and that link is broken which is why we can't find the method/thread. We recently switched to a new and much cooler software version for the OLF and there are still some links that need to be re-established and this is one of them.

What I recall is that he puts tape on the inside of the mold and uses a pick shaped piece of scrap wood with a hole in it for a pencil to poke through. He runs the pick shaped piece of wood around the mold with the point in the dish, proper radius for the top or back respectively and the pencil draws the dish's profile on the tape. The tape is then removed and placed on the side, or paper template, and the radius is transfered accordingly. It is so very accurate that very little if any dish sanding is required.

Thanks, for all your work on this....I just found it, actually:
viewtopic.php?f=10102&t=8117&hilit=+side

It was kind of tricky finding it...I put "side" and "Colin S" in the search area and looked in the archives....and just kept scanning through the messages till I found it....

I appreciate your help!

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Kathy Matsushita
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It is also on our Tutorial Page. OLF TUTORIAL PAGE

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I too have used this technique. Thanks Colin for posting it. I modified it a bit to make side profiles for a Manzer wedge. When I placed the outside mold on the radiused dish, I raised the treble side of the mold up until it was 1 inch further away from the dish than the bass side. I took this measurement at the widest part of the lower bout. I then scribed the line as Colin describes and transfered it to two templates. One for the treble side and one for the bass side. When I cut out my sides, bent them and put them in my mold, they rested in the dish perfectly and formed the exact wedge I was looking for. Sorry I didn't take any pictures of the processes.