I had to fit some caps for a stair stringer today into a stone fireplace. I like doing stuff like this…and it took a good chunk of the day to get these all done.
I used a contout gauge….scribe….and then took my time. A jigsaw roughed it out…then I back cut it with a table saw. The rocks were so irregular…..it had to have a backcut.
Stan
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Nice work when you can get it.
Wier/Barlow
Stan, feels good when you finish does it not?
Lou C
Nice and tight, we'd expect no less from the DW's King of Trim.
Looks like you are holding the compass backwards in the one photo. Were you just tweaking the pencil line here? I have the same compass in my bag and always find that PITA threaded rod is in the way when I need to get up close to a wall or something.
Nice job! I too enjoy the work of scribing wood to stone, etc. Completion is always a pleasure.
Neither cold, nor darkness will deter good people from hastening to the dreadful place to quench the flame. They do it not for the sake of reward or fame; but they have a reward in themselves, and they love one another.
-Benjamin Franklin
One of these days I'm going to scan and post my old pics of my favorite scribe job, an 8"x12"x10' solid white oak mantel, scribed to a fieldstone wall.
Took three people just to lift it onto the jury-rigged forklift that I made to set it in place.
Man, that was fun! I know exactly what you mean.
AitchKay
Nice job.
I have similar to do around a fieldstone threshold for the flooring on my current project.
Flooring is reclaimed antique heart pine from Carlisle Wide Plank Floors. Will scribe and picture frame the flooring.
>>and it took a good chunk of the day to get these all done.<<
I don't expect any faster, luckily, neither does the HO.
Jim