I need a solution to roll out this
paper. And it's not as simple as it may
seem.
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The goal, one hand operation. Easy to
dispense the paper, easy to replace the
paper.
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It needs to be fast and it needs to
protect the table. Make it obvious so
someone brand new can step up to the
station and know exactly how it works.
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The paper is used as a backing so that
when I put glue on these bow limbs, I
can glue these together without getting
glue on the table.
The big problem I ran into was one-hand
operation. When I tried to cut the
paper, it would bunch up on me. So, I
decided to test out a rotary cutter,
thinking this could be good one-hand
operation, but it was absolutely even
worse. Even though it cuts like card
stock and normal paper will, this
paper's too thin. So, my solution was to
redesign it a little bit. Then, I tried
to put a razor blade in a piece of
bamboo to see how if that would hold
down the sides, if I could make a custom
cutting knife. It did decent, but it
wasn't perfect. But through this
testing, I found out that the problem
was I needed one hand to hold the paper
down and one hand to hold the knife. So
I needed to build something that would
hold the paper down for me.
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There are paper dispensers you can just
buy, but most of those have the serrated
blades that you pull up and cut. Now, I
don't want to cut mine that way because
I normally have things on the paper and
that would disrupt and make things fly
everywhere. So, I wanted to be able to
bring the knife to the paper instead of
ripping the paper off. My solution was
some magnets. I'm going to put the paper
slot that directs where the paper goes
right on top of the table top. I
attached it with some magnets. This way,
it'd be easy to remove and put on when I
needed a new roll. But this method
actually holds the paper down and allows
one hand operation.
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So, here we are. The knife stores here.
If this hand's occupied or has glue on
it or whatever, I can grab the paper and
pull it all the way out. Once the
paper's all the way out, when I need to
cut it, if you cut close here, one hand
will cut the paper.
store the knife and then you can dispose
of the paper. Here, our pin goes through
and our dowel comes out to release the
paper. You see there's a hole in there.
I put some lines so that it's really
easy to reline it up so the dowel goes
all the way back through. Come up just
above and we've got our glue spreaders.
Come right over here and we've got our
tape. Come back down. Here's our knife
storage with our
magnetized paper holder. Come even lower
and we've got our glue plates for the
glue, our cleaning chemical, shop towel,
and our oven. Here we've got limb
wedges, fiberglass storage, bamboo limb
storage, and up here we've got our glove
dispenser. I took an extra maybe 2 or 3
hours on this system than I could have,
but those aren't regrettable hours
because this may save 5 to 20 minutes
every single day when using this.
Compound that out over employees in
extended periods of time and it was well
well worth it. And shoot, I'll probably
improve on this someday. Maybe I'll find
something even better. You know me, I
like automation. So, I'll probably
figure out a way to spit it out. Push a
button and the paper's there. Push a
button, it cuts and balls it up and
throws it away. But for now, this is no
longer the constraint of the bow making
process. So, let's move on to the next
constraint. And when this becomes the
constraint of speed in the bow making
process, we'll deal with it again. Then
