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Welcome. :) And you are wrong. Sorry. Scratch building referes to building something out of nothing. Starting with only the raw materials. Baking a cake from scratch, means no store bought cake mix. You have to "assemble" the eggs, flour, and such yourself. The scribing and breaking techn...

In school, we're doing this plasctics lesson. The instructor has us take a piece of pexyglass and scribe it with a tool and then brake it off. We heat the plastic in the oven and when it sags, we put it into a wooden jig.

scratch - making the line.building - making something out of it.
or am I wrong?