Kevin Villas
09-27-2004, 9:04 PM
I swear I have totally lost my mind. It could be the 2 hours of sleep I got last night, or I have just become stupid over the years. If anyone has the math education of a 6th grader I would appreciate some help.
I posted earlier about some veneer in building a clock, it is used for the face. I deiced I would give it a shot ordering some thin veneer online. Figuring out how much stock I need I made a quick paper template. This is where my brain failed.
The project is detailed here:
http://www.diynet.com/diy/ww_decorative_furnishings/article/0,2049,DIY_14441_2276590,00.html
As you can see by the top 2 pictures it is divide up between maple and wenage.
He says to take a 9.75 x 9.75 piece of wood and divide it by drawing a line from corner to corner. then take each of those 4 sections and divide equally into 3. Saying it makes them 30 degrees, I came up with different #s..
I will now refer to the pieces as number as they would be on a clock with #s.
So by doing this wouldn't it make 12oclock, 3oclock,6oclock,9oclock bigger sections with a larger angle? Thus kind of screwing up being able to tell time by them? or I guess the spacing at the top is equal because its 3.25 inches between each section on a 9.75 square? Ugh.
Also I am confused because is you look at Figure O of his plan. he has all the maple ganged together and all the wenage ganged together, which wouldn't work would it? Since they alternate?
I think there are 2 different angles so their would be only have to be 2 gangs but they would be mixed woods.
If anyone can make my head stop hurting I would appreciate it.
I posted earlier about some veneer in building a clock, it is used for the face. I deiced I would give it a shot ordering some thin veneer online. Figuring out how much stock I need I made a quick paper template. This is where my brain failed.
The project is detailed here:
http://www.diynet.com/diy/ww_decorative_furnishings/article/0,2049,DIY_14441_2276590,00.html
As you can see by the top 2 pictures it is divide up between maple and wenage.
He says to take a 9.75 x 9.75 piece of wood and divide it by drawing a line from corner to corner. then take each of those 4 sections and divide equally into 3. Saying it makes them 30 degrees, I came up with different #s..
I will now refer to the pieces as number as they would be on a clock with #s.
So by doing this wouldn't it make 12oclock, 3oclock,6oclock,9oclock bigger sections with a larger angle? Thus kind of screwing up being able to tell time by them? or I guess the spacing at the top is equal because its 3.25 inches between each section on a 9.75 square? Ugh.
Also I am confused because is you look at Figure O of his plan. he has all the maple ganged together and all the wenage ganged together, which wouldn't work would it? Since they alternate?
I think there are 2 different angles so their would be only have to be 2 gangs but they would be mixed woods.
If anyone can make my head stop hurting I would appreciate it.