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Thread: WOODWORKING QUIZ for 11 AUG 04
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11th August 2004, 09:42 PM #1
WOODWORKING QUIZ for 11 AUG 04
Good Evening friends,
OK, you wood turners here is one for you.
You have a block of wood that is 8" square and 4" thick.
How do you figure the dimensions or proportion a bowl with the golden mean?
Respectfully,Ralph Jones Woodworking
London, Ohio
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11th August 2004, 10:42 PM #2
Interesting question, but why is it called the golden mean?
Makes it sound all very nasty. No wonder so few people understand it.
Perhaps from here on on this board we could refer to that wonderous proportion 1:1·6180339887 as the Golden Nice Thing??
Cheers,
P
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12th August 2004, 01:42 AM #3
G'day.
I'd attack it with my bowl saver & make 3 bowls & a picture/mirror frame.
The bowls would be 2" high by 3 & 1/4" wide, 3" high by 4 & 3/4" wide, &
4" high by 6 & 1/2" wide. The frame would be 8" wide.
Hows that, close enough?Cliff.
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12th August 2004, 09:55 AM #4
Good morning Ralph,
How about a bowl 6 15/32" X 4" ?
Haven't got a lathe so I might be wrong :confused:
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12th August 2004, 10:01 AM #5
Set your plane finer
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
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12th August 2004, 09:53 PM #6
WOODWORKING QUIZ ANSWER for 11 AUG 04
Good Evening Friends,
To answer bitingmidge's question of what is the golden mean.
To get an eye appealing bowl shape requires a sense of proportion. An ancient Greek formula called the golden mean frequently guides the turner.
It's really about using the ration 1:1.618 to find the length of the long side in relation to the short side of a rectangle.
To proportion a bowl with the golden mean using a block of wood 8" square by 4" thick, You would multiply the 4" by 1.618 to arrive to a diameter of 6 1/2" for the rim and then divide the 4" by 1.618 to arrive to a diameter of 2 1/2" for the bottom.
Thank you for your support.
Respectfully,Ralph Jones Woodworking
London, Ohio
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13th August 2004, 09:52 AM #7
Ralph
Read bitings answer again. He wasn't asking a question (except in a sort of twisted rhetorical way) he was giving you an answer.
PS what happens if I decide to turn the 8" down to 2" first (because I want a smaller bowl) and just waste the timber?Bob Willson
The term 'grammar nazi' was invented to make people, who don't know their grammar, feel OK about being uneducated.