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Re: Tools: Robo-bevel
By:Jumbliah
Date: 5/30/2017, 1:47 pm
In Response To: Re: Tools: Robo-bevel (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

Nick, you may have responded tongue-in-cheek, but I perceived from your associated YouTube video comment, the Robo-Bevel has taken quite a chunk of your time to produce, just meeting the demand of all of us. Did you think we wouldn't respond en masse? I will repeat my response from over there: I appreciate immensely that you are personally making these tools. I believe that your craftsmanship adds significantly to the value of this tool; I wouldn't want to pay nearly as much as I did if I knew that someone else was manufacturing it for you.

Yep, the "Nick Schade" name...right up there with the big names like Nike...

Mostly, I appreciate your change in technique from bead and cove to beveled strips. I was really questioning whether cove/bead strips were the best way to go. This tool provides the answer.

The most important lesson I have learned is that there is not necessarily a single perfect method of boat-building, but there is the right method matching the we find it easiest to achieve a good-looking and well made end product.

Thanks for the Robo-Bevel: it and the Veritas plane make up the coolest tool I own!

Joel Cress

Messages In This Thread

Tools: Robo-bevel
JayBabina -- 5/8/2017, 6:49 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/8/2017, 7:24 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/8/2017, 10:21 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 5/9/2017, 3:08 am
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Matthew Blumenthal -- 5/11/2017, 12:05 am
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Jumbliah -- 5/30/2017, 1:47 pm
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Paul T -- 5/11/2017, 9:18 pm
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Andrew Moizer -- 5/14/2017, 10:31 pm
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Paul Harker -- 10/11/2017, 5:38 pm
Re: Tools: Robo-bevel *PIC*
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/11/2017, 8:08 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/12/2017, 8:23 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 5/14/2017, 7:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/14/2017, 8:04 pm
Re: Tools: Robo-bevel - Thanks
Marc Upchurch -- 5/14/2017, 9:38 pm
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Jumbliah -- 5/15/2017, 1:21 pm
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Jim777 -- 5/18/2017, 9:29 am