Re: LRO: Royce (was Tuning by eye)

From: Rick Grant (rgrant@cadvision.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 14:18:35 EDT

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    At 10:43 31/05/01 -0700, Faure, Marin, wrote
    >the description of his "final exam." The apprentices were given a flat
    >piece of
    >steel and a round bar. Using only hand tools and no measuring devices of
    >any kind,
    >they had to create a square hole in the flat sheet and square the round bar
    >so that the bar fit in the hole perfectly no matter how you inserted
    >it. I doubt there
    >are many people today who could accomplish such a task (Royce apparently
    >did it
    >quite easily).

    When I was going to university I had a part time job in a cabinet makers
    shop. The entire hiring process (resume, application, interview etc)
    consisted of being handed a lump of rough lumber, a square, handsaw, and a
    plane, and told to produce a near as perfect cube as possible. The
    dimensions didn't matter but it had to be a cube. The exercise remains to
    this day as the most difficult woodworking I've ever done.

                                                 Rick Grant

                                        1959 Series II "88"
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