Bobbing Sheetrock or Plasterboard

Craigs Clout ; Tip "O" the Week Although my name is Craig, allow me to be Frank Carpenter for the moment with a spin off of what I previously eluded to from last weeks blog of "The Tool" the String. So heres "The Skinny" as my Pops used to say. It starts with this inanimate object, because the thing that hangs @ the end of it to assist us wood never be there! That being a Plumb-Bob. From Up to Down or Down to straight back Up. Atop buildings over 40' feet in the air we've often relied on this basic in purest forms of devise, sure, having used a so called straight stick. With a level reading plumb on that piece of milled Gnahl lumber, You got on the special order of the many sticks required on your "Special Order Minimum" you payed handsomely enough for, it might be 26 Ft. and the chances that its any where near actually straight wood be a whole other story for the grandkids some day. - Just to be clear: Level is horizontal and Plumb is up-and-down or vertical. The wieght of this apparatus (once it stops swinging) will give you a pinpoint 100% reclaimed woodshop percent mark from top to bottom to measure by or a control line to go by. And all that you're atempting to erect is exact, and that does matter at the end of the each and every day ! Egyptians; "The Egyptians invented the plumb bob more than 4000 years ago. They used it to establish vertical references that were indispensable in the construction of their buildings, pyramids and canals." As clever as they were in so many different ways there are still some Artisans out there that appreciate these entrepenuers, no doubt ! Stay Straight folks and have a pleasant Week !! Craigs Clout or craigscloutandrepairs@gmail.com "Do it right the first Time"