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mapsedgeSeamlyne has taken on a very interesting job. I really don't feel like I should provide many details as to the WHOs and the WHATs, but this I can say: in terms of scale it is by far the largest project we've ever taken on. If all goes as planned there will be more to do, and this may be the project that will finally let the business do what we've always needed it to do, which is help supplement my income. This is where the subject of TOOLS comes up.
You see, we have 2000 rectangles to cut, in, say, nine different sizes...a hundred here, four hundred there, another couple hundred over there. Scissors? Gosh, no Batman, that would be crazy.
Say this with me: ten inch vertical cutter.
Say it out loud, let the words taste the air: t e n i n c h v e r t i c a l c u t t e r
Draw out the "r" at the end of cutter. Cutterrrrr...
Goosebumps, yet? Yeah, me too. Hee.
It is a jig saw that walks upright, for want of a better analogy, and can cut a stack of fabric up to 10" thick. It dims the lights when you switch it on; it's loud; it vibrates the table; it will take your damn hand off as neatly as a lightsabre and it cut out three hundred 4" x 18" cotton/lycra rectangles in just under ten minutes.
It took half an hour to get the fabric - twenty four layers of it - laid out, but the cutting was done, as I said, very quickly. I'm totally geekin' out over it.
The only problem with the project so far has been we can't figure out the math. There's theory - "piece #1 is 9x16 so that means we can get x out of Y yards" - and then there's actual practice - "Did you leave enough on each end for the knife to grip?" and "Whaddayamean we're fifty yards short?!". Still, I expected this first round would be rough, and tried to prepare the customer for that. Let's hope he remembers that.
You see, we have 2000 rectangles to cut, in, say, nine different sizes...a hundred here, four hundred there, another couple hundred over there. Scissors? Gosh, no Batman, that would be crazy.
Say this with me: ten inch vertical cutter.
Say it out loud, let the words taste the air: t e n i n c h v e r t i c a l c u t t e r
Draw out the "r" at the end of cutter. Cutterrrrr...
Goosebumps, yet? Yeah, me too. Hee.
It is a jig saw that walks upright, for want of a better analogy, and can cut a stack of fabric up to 10" thick. It dims the lights when you switch it on; it's loud; it vibrates the table; it will take your damn hand off as neatly as a lightsabre and it cut out three hundred 4" x 18" cotton/lycra rectangles in just under ten minutes.
It took half an hour to get the fabric - twenty four layers of it - laid out, but the cutting was done, as I said, very quickly. I'm totally geekin' out over it.
The only problem with the project so far has been we can't figure out the math. There's theory - "piece #1 is 9x16 so that means we can get x out of Y yards" - and then there's actual practice - "Did you leave enough on each end for the knife to grip?" and "Whaddayamean we're fifty yards short?!". Still, I expected this first round would be rough, and tried to prepare the customer for that. Let's hope he remembers that.