Trying to take it easy today, but thought I would clean up and organize the garage to get ready for the next step. I picked up a couple of pieces of plywood for the station templates, previously I traced out the stations into paper and bristle board paper and today I stated to transfer this to the plywood. I started by ripping the plywood in half to create four 2 foot by 8 foot pieces. Then using the square to ensure that the center line of the templates would be the center I copied the station images onto plywood. Now I need to double them up before cutting to make them uniform. I tried to cut out station 1 and 11 when I screwed two pieces of plywood together using the jigsaw. This did not go as well as I hoped, I think that the speed on the saw was too high and I buggered it up. So I them proceeded to bugger up the center station number 6, which may come back to haunt me when I need to buy another piece of plywood to finance that mistake.
Now I have to test out the variable speed idea on the jigsaw before trying to ruin another perfectly good station. Let you know how this goes, if it appears problematic i will have to take the plywood somewhere that I can access a bandsaw. I am going to call it a day..
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