Brilliant woodworking hack: The Ticking Stick

equalsql

I just chanced on this video about ticking-sticks.

I've never heard of this device before but it's a simple quite genius idea for accurately marking up difficult shape for cutting.

You learn something new ever day.

axisus

Not sure what it is? I couldn't be bothered to watch 7 minutes of video, jumped a couple of times and I'm still confused. Life is too short to engage with everything. Next!

Adam_MD

That is genius 

phil_b

piece of paper and a dirty thumb

SteveRobinson

what I read

poopot

Put sheet under hole...
draw round hole...
cut out shape...

seems a lot less agg to me

axisus

SteveRobinson said:

what I read

Funny enough I also read tickling every time until the guy said 'ticking' in the video. It sure looked like a weird tickling stick.

octatonic

axisus said:

Not sure what it is? I couldn't be bothered to watch 7 minutes of video, jumped a couple of times and I'm still confused. Life is too short to engage with everything. Next!

This is one thing worthy of seven minutes of your time.

ROOG

Not heard of that before, neat idea, I shall try to apply it in future

merlin

axisus said:

SteveRobinson said:

what I read

Funny enough I also read tickling every time until the guy said 'ticking' in the video. It sure looked like a weird tickling stick.

The woman in the video is called Leah Bolden and she's got a whole tonne of amazing DIY/building tips available via her youtube channel "See Jane Drill". 

Funkfingers

SteveRobinson said:

what I read

I, too, expected this Discussion to be the work of RandallFlagg ... not least because of the single entendre humour lurking in the YouTube video channel name.

"See Jane Drill" sounds like a porn site.

DrBob

It only really works for straight lines though right ? A curved hole wouldnt really work with that stick ?

merlin

DrBob said:

It only really works for straight lines though right ? A curved hole wouldnt really work with that stick ?

Not at all. It would be shit, unless you used it to draw the arc. 

Funkfingers

DrBob said:

It only really works for straight lines though, right?

The stick can be used to register any shape. A curved shape would just require more reference points. An simple arc would be easier to mark with other tools. 

The only critical stipulation is that the surface on which the markings are to be made should not mask any of the corners of the shape being copied.

The video mentions boat building. I suspect that the ticking stick could also be of use in stone masonry.

equalsql

axisus said:

Not sure what it is? I couldn't be bothered to watch 7 minutes of video, jumped a couple of times and I'm still confused. Life is too short to engage with everything. Next!

Trust me, you really do need to watch it.. there's this lightbulb moment when you suddenly realise wtf, that's brilliant!

JD50

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/fit-irregular-impossible-shapes-ticking-sticks/

Nice simple article on the method

axisus

OK, fl;ipped through the vid and I can see what he was doing, but I just can't see the point. He could have stuck the flat bit underneath and drawn around the shape in about 4 seconds. 

merlin

axisus said:

OK, fl;ipped through the vid and I can see what he was doing, but I just can't see the point. He could have stuck the flat bit underneath and drawn around the shape in about 4 seconds. 

The woman in the video is called Leah Bolden and she's got a whole tonne of amazing DIY/building tips available via her youtube channel "See Jane Drill". 

Danny1969

axisus said:

OK, fl;ipped through the vid and I can see what he was doing, but I just can't see the point. He could have stuck the flat bit underneath and drawn around the shape in about 4 seconds. 

Agreed but what if the wood was stuck on the wall and you can' put anything underneath ..... this often comes up when your plasterboarding attic rooms with sloped walls due to the roof. 

equalsql

axisus said:

OK, fl;ipped through the vid and I can see what he was doing, but I just can't see the point. He could have stuck the flat bit underneath and drawn around the shape in about 4 seconds. 

Check out this video of it being used to fit shelving tight against a uneven wall.

JD50

An interesting take on scribing in, I was taught to do this with a compass & a pencil.