Originally Posted by
Mike Holbrook
Love this post Stan. I will be rereading it many times to make sure I find all it has to offer. Great methods to use when working from logs or rough lumber, which have a tendency to not be exactly straight, yet challenge a "straightedge". Conventional wisdom suggests using "chalk lines". In my experience these are less accurate than what you describe. You should write this up in greater detail and send it to Lost Art Press. They may turn it into something similar to "By Hound & Eye". Love simpler, older methods, especially when they work better than more conventional methods.
Now all I have to do is figure out how to make or buy the pieces to use these methods. Oddly a search on Lee Valley on "Stringline" finds nothing and an Amazon search finds lots of incorrect items. Do they sell similar devices somewhere? Is there a more detailed design somewhere? I can think of lots of ways to make something similar, but rather than debugging my own idea...