Rally Navigator's Work Board

[fredk]

yeah but, no but, yeah but, no but, yeah but, the ones in my motor club are a tight-fisted lot.  

They'll spend ten of thousands on a vintage car but wont spend £20 on a new jumper or trews  

[LederRudi]

18 hours ago, PigasusStudio said:

Nicely done, bet they're loving it. :0)

I'll second this!

And I like the word "Pigasus"!

[MikeRock]

Nicely done, good idea.  I have a question, how readily do the pencils/pens come out?  It looks like there's interference in either direction?  Or is that just an optical delusion?? Cool Buick..man......

[PigasusStudio]

2 hours ago, LederRudi said:

And I like the word "Pigasus"!

Hehheh, thanks

12 hours ago, fredk said:

yeah but, no but, yeah but, no but, yeah but, the ones in my motor club are a tight-fisted lot.  

They'll spend ten of thousands on a vintage car but wont spend £20 on a new jumper or trews  

Ah, but a vintage car is often a passion, and a toy, and a general all-around-fun-thing. Jumpers and trews, not so much (even if people at some levels of affluence will pay more for such things than I paid for my non-vintage vehicle). Your Rally Navigator's Work Board could fit into that first lot, especially if you price and craft them as a luxury item. :0)

Edited August 1, 2019 by PigasusStudio

[Matt S]

13 hours ago, fredk said:

yeah but, no but, yeah but, no but, yeah but, the ones in my motor club are a tight-fisted lot.  

They'll spend ten of thousands on a vintage car but wont spend £20 on a new jumper or trews  

Your vintage car club sounds a lot like a target-shooting club. I know of one chap who has a very extensive and valuable collection of Lee Enfields. ("Nice L42" "Thanks, this is the shoddy one, the nice three don't leave the safe" etc.) His wet-weather gear is a set of dayglo overalls a tarmac gang threw away as too disreputable.

I find that particularly affluent persons can be some of the most penny-pinching of all. (My granda would say "tighter than a duck's arse", but I'm no so indelicate.) After all -- they didn't get rich by spending money!

Edited August 1, 2019 by Matt S

[fredk]

17 hours ago, MikeRock said:

Nicely done, good idea.  I have a question, how readily do the pencils/pens come out?  It looks like there's interference in either direction?  Or is that just an optical delusion?? 

partly optical, the pencil slides in and out easy enough. The eraser/sharpener unit needs sliding down a bit to allow the pen to slide out to the left. Initially there was not going to be anything to the left of the pen holder, then it was just going to be an eraser, a lot smaller of what went in.

On the Mark 2 I might slope the pen holder, left side low, right side high. Its also been suggested to put the pens vertically (and allowing them to poke up past the end of the board) where the eraser is and put that next to the stop watch. I'm toying with the idea of having two map clips; either one top & one bottom, one top & one on left side ~ in an open car one needs to hold the maps and papers well or they take off and away.

PS. On Thursday 1st Aug I received a nice letter of thanks from the recipients

 

Edited August 2, 2019 by fredk

[fredk]

I'll throw in a late follow-up. 

Last year my son met up with the board's owners at one of our club events. He was told to pass on a message; that my board is 'world rally winner' board now. The couple had used it in some world vintage car rally which they had won.

I patiently await orders to come flooding in from around the world from vintage car rallyists -    

[jrdunn]

2 hours ago, fredk said:

I'll throw in a late follow-up. 

Last year my son met up with the board's owners at one of our club events. He was told to pass on a message; that my board is 'world rally winner' board now. The couple had used it in some world vintage car rally which they had won.

I patiently await orders to come flooding in from around the world from vintage car rallyists -    

Perhaps even some international fame!  Nice work by the way.

[Samalan]

Nice job on that looks very cool.