Curtis
how do you carry your lines across where the escutcheons were?
Fleener
Art, it is much like jumping from one creek bank to the other. First you back the checkering tool up a couple inches to get a good run at it, then push it forward as fast as you can to "jump the ditch" to the other side. Just messing with 'ya!
Not sure how a properly educated checkerer would do it, but I used a double cut tool to lay out the first line over the void much like shown below:
Logic would tell you that once you have one line over the void, you could continue to work from that with each new line in a similar fashion. However, for me at least in practice it produced a slight curve in the line that got worse with each consecutive line. In order to prevent that from happening, I then marked out the entry point on the opposite side using a checkering guide, one line at a time:
Once the proper re-entry point was established, a piece of pinstripe tape (or masking tape) was used to carry the proper alignment across and a layout line cut with a 60
0 tool, along the edge of the tape for a short distance. Once the layout lines were properly established I used a double cut tool to complete the line.
I have seen the escutcheons outlined with a mullered border (TOF, you now know what that is
) but that is just taking the easy way out!
Examples:
I'd be happy to try and answer any other question you might have, or try to explain that one better.
Curtis
