6 Aug
2012
6 Aug
'12
2:08 p.m.
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6 Aug 2012 at 18:36, Tony Duell wrote:
Can we talk about dimensions and construction? I was thinking 10mm^2 by
100mm for the normal rods and maybe 30mm x 10mm x 100mm for the
square-root rod. Camel bone is easily available in the right sizes for
this. A piece of tight-grained hardwood (cherry?) with bone glued on the
left and bottom edges would made a good tray. Then there's the question
of making a box for it.
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I guess I am strange, but I don;'t much like
wood as a material. I'd
much prefer a set of Napier's Bones in metal.
There are plenty of nice tough antique non-metallic materials that
might make good candidates. It's just that they're a bear to handle
on the small scale or under very tight supply restrictions; e.g. bone
or ivory.
But I think we're getting off-topic here. Napier's bones are very
simple, shape-wise. Just engraved slips of metal and probably one of
the stock shapes available, so quite possibly just cutting, finishing
and engraving.