Profile template for complex contours in a minute (and by the way, it's free)

- Nikolay, welcome. What are you inventing again?

- Hi, Vova. I started repairing, I need to make curly trimming on the tile. From the materials at hand, I collect a profile needle template in order to accurately transfer the markings.

- Kolya, well, you give it. Builder, you work on expensive objects. Chickens do not peck money, but you do all sorts of garbage. I would buy ready-made and not toil.

- Oh, Vova, with this approach we will go to a bright future for a long time... You see, on most construction projects I come across only straight-line trimming of ceramic tiles. Even if I buy a factory template, I'll lose it somewhere as unnecessary.

- Yeah, and so during the repair, you can translate a pack of master's porcelain stoneware until you guess the exact size.

- Don't push it. I will translate your contour from millimeter to millimeter the first time. By the way, not only on tiles. Do you remember Ivanitch crumpled his wing in the car, did not know how to catch geometry? So, they pulled out and putty according to the template. Once we restored a plaster lion on a dispute with the customer. Someone, how to put it mildly, trimmed his face (to the lion, of course). Restored in such a way that my mother cannot distinguish from the original.

- Intrigued, of course, but miracles do not happen at a construction site. You can keep the master's tile, but you will delay the repair. Half a day now you will “look for materials at hand” and make a template.

- Delov there for a minute, exactly. And the materials at hand can be found at any housewife: wooden skewers, hairpins, knitting needles, culinary pipes, etc. If we work in a garage, we take electrodes.

- So, what to do with all this good?

- We take a piece of corrugated cardboard. We insert skewers there. The template for copying the contours is ready.

- You see, you also have to look for cardboard somewhere.

- Are you kidding? Do Tajiks bring you tiles in checkered bags? By the way, while we were talking here, I have everything ready. Look.

- Look, this is a great tile marking tool. And most importantly - from nothing. I think it could save the builders a lot of time during the renovation. I would take it and share my work with the world.

- Volodya, I'm sharing. I post useful tips on the channel Repair Chips. I decided to publish them as short stories. Readers seem to spend their time not boring, and learn something useful. A large collection has already been collected there.

- Yes? I didn't know. I will definitely subscribe.

- And further. On the platform, the Zen algorithm rules the ball. If you find the material useful - click like 👍. This way more people will see it. Zen also remembers this like and shows other articles from the channel based on your interests.

- Got it, Kolya. I will do everything. Thanks for the advice!