Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Profile Cut

We got to use the foam wire cutter today, and it worked beautifully:

We cut a couple of profile templates out of cheap wood, which we then taped to the side of the foam blocks to guide the wire cutter. Cutting was easy overall, with noticeable slowdowns when the wire cut through the polyurethane glue between the sheets we had glued together. But with a bit of patience, the wire cut through the glue, too. Now it's a bit easier to see what we are building ... and Nina is starting to get quite excited.

There's a lot of rain in the forecast for the next few days, which means there will be little progress, since all the board building is done outside. Friday's weather looks nice, but there's also wind in the forecast, and ABK is in town for the annual camp, so we'll be at Kalmus. We won't do the ABK camp this year, mostly because it's run at a much smaller scale to allow for social distancing. We figured others can benefit more from ABK's excellent instructions than us (with more than 40 AKB camps between the two of us so far!). But we'll certainly stop by to say hello, and go foiling a bit.