Category: Printing & Framing
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A Second Practical Mat(h) Problem
OK, here’s another problem inspired by matting pictures. Suppose you have an image that you want to put in a standard 16″ by 20″ mat. You can print the image any size but want to keep the original 2:3 aspect ratio (meaning that the length will always be 50% longer than the width…
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Plans For Making A Cardboard Box For Framed Art
I just added an article to the website (Making A Cardboard Box To Ship Art) with plans and instructions for making a cardboard box. To make any size box, all you have to do is plug your dimensions into the expressions for each measurement on the plans. You can even download and print the plans…
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Updated Instructions For Adjusting A Logan Sander
It occurred to me the other day that it might be good to be able to download the steps to adjust a Logan Sander, as I described in Another Method For Adjusting A Logan Precision Sander. While converting to the Acrobat .pdf format, I took the liberty of adding more information and, I hope, making…
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Comments on Mat(h) Solution
I posted our first Simple Mat(h) Problem on April 27, 2017, and Jim Farrington submitted a solution a couple of weeks later. Here are a few more comments on the problem that I published (but in the wrong place). Although the mat cutter has no kerf, the blade does swing down at the start of…
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A Simple Mat(h) Problem
Interesting math problems have always seemed to jump out of the woodwork at me. Here’s a simple geometry problem inspired by mat cutting. However, you don’t need a mat cutter or mat cutting experience to solve this problem. Starting with a regular 40″ by 60″ foam board, a 23″ (by 40″) slice had already been…