Drawing your forms from the offset table is really a lot easier than it looks, It is more tedious than hard. It helped me when I realized that all I was doing was plotting a point using X and Y coordinates. 1 inch over on the X (horizontal) and 8.9 inches up on the Y. 2 inches over on the X and 8.7 inches up on the Y etc. Keep doing this until you end up with 1/2 of the form drawn out and reverse it for the other half of the form. There are many ways of drawing the forms but all follow this general idea. It took me about a week, several hours per night to get them all drawn out. It wish I could have done it using a cad program that would smooth the curves out for me. I drew straight lines between the dots and relied on my disk sander to smooth the curves. I cut close to the line with my jig saw and used the sander to true up the curves.

Have fun! I have thoroughly enjoyed the entire process.

: I am gearing up for this winter's project, a stripper after reading Nick's
: book cover to cover 20-30 times.(Last year was a S&G, I am hooked!) I
: check the BBS once a day and really enjoy reading the posts, very
: informative! I *am* getting a little loopy with the whole offset table
: thing though. Anyone have any tips for me? I do have a copy of Autocad
: lite, but I am not fluent with Autocad. Maybe there is something that I
: can use in there to help me out.

: Thanks in advance for the help, I will read the offset portion of the book
: again and hopefully I will be able to extract my head from my....

: -Todd