![]() If necessary, you might not be able to make all turns with your blade, so you might have to make multiple cuts and end up having smaller pieces being cut out. ![]() Because I was taking my time, I spent about 20 minutes making all my cuts.Ĭut your pieces slowly. You can easily use sandpaper, a sander or file to clean up the pieces once they are cut. The secret of the bandsaw is to cut close to the line, but not on or beyond the line. Once all the pieces are rough cut, slowly keeping an eye on your line, cut each piece. This is to ensure you don't accidentally cut into an adjacent piece as you are every so carefully cutting another piece. With your safety glasses on, start by slowly rough cutting all pieces from the large cutting board. In this step we cut out the pieces using a band saw. Bring your template (see step 2) with you to the Dollar store to find the appropriate dimensional material. The cutting board (without the handle) is about 5.5" x 8" and just barely fits the template pieces. For example, some people might use cardboard or wood rather than plastic. I'd recommend material that is about 1/8" thick, although you could vary depending on the material you choose. I used a Betty Crocker cutting board I bought at the Dollar store for $1. Band saw or some other saw to cut the plastic But I'm getting ahead of myself.let's about the parts and tools you'll need. I decided using machine screws provided the best option to holding the tool together. For this device, that measures what is pleasing to the eye, it is a requirement that the device itself is pleasing to the eye. However, as you will read later in this instructable, I found through experimentation, that rivets did not provide the best mechanical joint and, possibly worse, looked horrible. I also assumed I would use 1/4" aluminum rivets to hold the pieces together. So I walked around the local Dollar Store and wandered until I found what I thought was the most suitable plastic piece for reuse.a Betty Crocker cutting board. I wanted to find plastic that would be the desired thickness (1/8") to provide the right rigidity, but not be too bulky. Wood would be nice for the material to build this measuring device, but I decide that plastic would be more durable and last longer. I will create a followup instructable showing a simplified approach using wood. SIMPLIFICATION OPTION: If you don't want to hassle with cutting plastic on a bandsaw and torching it to get a nicer edge, there is an alternate approach (that I do not currently explain) that will reduce the effort and tools required for this instructable. I was able to build this instructable for $1 and your results should be similar. PLANS FOR THE GOLDEN RATIO CALIPERS HOW TOWOOD magazine has great video regarding the golden section with examples of the golden section in nature (your body), greek architecture and an example of how to use it to design furniture.Īnd you can read about it in Wikipedia as well. In the picture, the distance from the center and right point is always 1.618 times the distance of the left to center points. The gauge has 3 points, which always retains the ratio of 1 to 1.618, even as you expand and collapse the gauge. ![]() And, because the golden section is about things that are visually appealing, I wanted the gauge to be visual appealing as well. The gauge in this instructable allows you to measure drawings or on screen items and keep the scale and proportion of elements in a design. ![]() PLANS FOR THE GOLDEN RATIO CALIPERS SOFTWAREI wanted to create a durable measuring gauge that would allow me to refer to this ratio when designing things that I build with wood, metal, software and other materials. Today, you will find this golden section reflected in design of buildings, logos, products, artwork, etc. 1 to 1.618) and is referred to as the golden section. The Greeks noticed there was a common ratio in nature that was pleasing to the eye. Throughout the years I've read a lot about the golden ratio from a design perspective. ![]()
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