I got out my handy-dandy Excel spreadsheet and did some involved, round-about calculations that cleared my mind – and I realized there was a much simpler method of calculation.<\/p>\n
Now notice that the small square had 4 units of area in it and the large square has 9 units in it. A piece of 3\/32″ square has 2.25 TIMES MORE WOOD<\/strong> than a piece of 1\/16″ square. How does that apply to my problem? you can look at it in two ways:<\/p>\n 1 – if I used 7 lb 1\/16″ square wood to build with, to get a piece of 3\/32″ that weighed less, I would need 3 lb wood.<\/p>\n 2 – conversely, if I used 6 lb 3\/32″ wood, I could build with anything less than 13.5 lb 1\/16″ and it would be lighter.<\/p>\n For my project, I don’t want to build out of 13.5 lb wood – I’ll stick with 7 or even 8 lb 1\/16″ sticks!<\/p>\n ***<\/strong> – my previous article had to do with building Peanuts out of 1\/20″ square rather than 1\/16″ square. Using the same density wood would realize a similarly significant weight savings. Of course, finding 1\/20″ wood of light density is a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the last couple of days, I have been distracted by a potential project. I want to build a 16″ span model – but lighter than I normally do (I want to hit 12 grams w\/o rubber as opposed to … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CrossSection.jpg\")
<\/a>This is a screen capture from my CAD program to illustrate the correction to my wrong-thinking. The image on the left is a square 1\/16″x 1\/16″ – like you were using 1\/16″ square wood. The image on the right is a square 3\/32″x3\/32″ – like 3\/32″ square wood.<\/p>\n