Better Way To Make A Ramp
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@tig said:
@chris fullmer said:
I"m not even sure which of the shown objects were 'pens'.....
The things with adjustable ink-ruling pens with a 'bill' nibs - twiddle the wheel and the gap changes to let out more/less ink as you dip it into the inkwell and then try to draw a consistent width line on a sheet of 'animal skin'
[attachment=0:36e57kb5]<!-- ia0 -->bead-of-ink.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:36e57kb5]I got one of them things. Used it in my first year of modelmaking to paint window frames on an architectural building. Never used them before - but found some in the old storage of the office I work at now. They initially caused a bit of a mystery.
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@unknownuser said:
How did you get that old picture of me ?
By this, and it's not an old but an actual image !
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@unknownuser said:
@unknownuser said:
How did you get that old picture of me ?
By this, and it's not an old but an actual image !
This is the 'actual image' [even that is a few years old, as more recent images are no suitable for publication!]
What do you look like ? 
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My portrait by a very cool guy!
(had with him some very funny threads on the ZBC forum in the past) 
I believe a compatriot to you (same island)
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I have a few ruling pens. Cantankerous things. Now that we have Photoshop and Render engines. .. they have gone the way of the AirBrush, The Speedball nib and the and the french Curve. Funny. .. drafting stores still charge for them like they were still in demand.
But we digress. . .
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its one of those curvy drawing thingys as shown in the above post. We call them French Curves. . .they come from the same place as French Toast & French Fries - -- America!
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I know what is it , but want to know why this is named like that
Maybe something like "System D" ? (don't know if that exist on the new world?)
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We digress too far ............
PS: Pilou are you the rider or the camel ? -
Sometime I am no sure
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It's a 'French-curve' probably because you invented it... with the 'letter', 'kiss' and so on ?
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Maybe, I must make some investigations, if i found something pertinent about that, i will put it here
In French these tools are named "Pistol" or "Parrot" (pistolet, perroquet)
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@unknownuser said:
In French these tools are named "Pistol" or "Parrot" (pistolet, perroquet)
that makes sense. . . ils sont fous ces gaulois!
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[quote="Pilou"]@ Arjun : thx for Hindi lesson language
/[quote]My pleasure!!
btw why people use @ arjun?? on facebook i also saw this what's the meaning of @ arjun?? and why not Arjun?? -
It indicates "at" Arjun meaning they are addressing that part to you.
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@gaieus said:
It indicates "at" Arjun meaning they are addressing that part to you.
so isn't straightaway writing Arjun a better option??
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This is just a forum "habit" or "custom". Just like adding smiley's.
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whoa whoa hohoo hooho
people have really become nostalgic about french curves here man!!! well i'm was not really good at french curves in my Architectural Drawing subject in my second year.specifically the solid geometry thingyyy.. we had to draw conical sections and still find french curves really cumbersome i have a 12 piece set...I'm like ...try this one... oh no it doesn't work.. ok..try this one...the curve is slight imperfect .....okay try this one...this one is also crappy!! 
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Pardon the bump on a digression that is over two weeks old, but I had to comment because I used to use those tools too. I have a set of ruling pens and compasses of different sizes and a small set of French curves.
And I used to have a K&E log-log, duplex-vector slide rule. It had 20 scales, a magnifying slider, and a leather case with a belt-clip.
@arjunmax09 said:
...why do we use french curves at all???
Because we cannot do it freehand. Or we cannot afford someone with the skill to do it freehand.And because we did not have computers or paper-tape-driven plotters, or any of the other things that have been tried because French curves are so hard to use.
If doing it the hard way is the only way and if it must be done, then you do it the hard way.
The Apollo missions went to the Moon based on calculations done with slide-rules; they did not have calculators or computers. But they got it done.
FWIW,
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@unknownuser said:
The Apollo missions went to the Moon based on calculations done with slide-rules; they did not have calculators or computers. But they got it done.
Or least the government faked it all on a sound stages --all with just slide rules, french curves and super-8 cameras. But they got it done!
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