@steve b.And what part of the country/world are you from?
Offhand I can't think of an instrument who's frame takes a true 6" square of gel. With that in mind, if I was at a lighting hang, and someone said "go get me another 6" cut of R02" I would assume they were talking about a 6x instrument or a 6" Century/Altman/L&E/Capitol Fresnel.
@steve b. I believe I explained my rational. We used to purchase RoscoLux in rolls and use a fine blade in a slow band-saw (If you ran the band saw too fast you would fuse the edges of the layers together) to cut them into smaller rolls sized for 6" and 8" Strand Fresnels (Pattern 223's) and ellipsoidals of the day as well as Iris and Orion cyc tops and foots. The remainder of the rolls would be filed for cutting any / all odd ball sizes such as beam projectors.@ron, 7-1/4" ?, really ?
It's a 7-1/2" holder with a 7-1/2" frame. How did you come up with 7-1/4" ?
Decades using and cutting at 7-1/2", never had issues.
@MNicolai And the red spike tape was for the 8", the blue spike tape for the 10" and the green spike tape for the beam projectors, right?The distance between the blade of the chop board and the yellow spike tape, duh.
Kliegl?@ron,
It's a 7-1/2" holder with a 7-1/2" frame. How did you come up with 7-1/4" ?
There's your key phrase: "within the organization". You had organization to begin with. Try not to be too shocked. "Organization" is something many places DON'T have.When I was the ME for a theatre we called for gel a handful of ways depending on how we were feeling. Since we typically were referring to cuts that fit a fixture type, a '6" cut' would refere to a cut that fit a fixture with a 6" lens, much the same as how a "S4 cut" fits a source 4. Of course, using Lightwright we standardized frame size labels within the organization, so a 6.25x6.25" cut was "A-size" and 7.5x7.5" was "B-size" and so on. Of course, like color coding cable lengths, this size code was particular to our theatre, but it worked very well for keeping everyone on the same page and keeping the gel file organized.
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