I'm trying to recreate a light fixture that I saw in a restaurant a few weeks ago (see attached image). It is a round light made from vertical slats of wood. Each slat has an angle cut along the length so that when all the angles are brought together it completes the circle. I'm looking at making a 24" diameter light with slats around 1.5" wide. My math tells me that I will need 50 pieces at 1.5" with with a 3.6 degree angle on each side.
Here's my math:
Number of pieces: 24" circle has a circumference of 75.375", divide that by 50 to get 1.5"
Angle: 360/50=7.2 degrees/2=3.6 degrees
I cut all the pieces for a mock up tonight to check the math and it just flat out didn't work. I tried to do the assembly the same way I would a four sided box, by laying down a length of tape and laying each piece on the tape. After I had done had added all 50 pieces, I tried to roll it all up and found that I had way too may pieces and I wasn't able to actually complete the roll before pieces started falling off. I tried painters tape at first and then duct tape, neither was sticky enough. Either way, I know that something is wrong. If the math is right then something else is the problem. Tape to stretchy? Pieces not snuggly butting up to one another? ? ? ?
I also used this website to confirm my math: http://www.woodturnersresource.com/e...alc/index.html
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