Spent 5 hours on a 20 minute brick arch because I cut the voussoirs before building the jig

Miles Scott · 2026-09-29T10:50:02.239258+00:00

Needed a small segmental arch over a garden gate in Aurora and figured I'd just eyeball the voussoir angles from a photo, which turned into 5 hours of recutting because each brick bound up as I dry fit them. Trace the arc on plywood first and cut each brick to that line, it takes 20 minutes, or am I doing arches the slow way?

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