[Nfb-krafters-korner] Perforation experiment, model car kits.

[Kendra Schaber]

That's a good idea for carving pumpkins! Thanks for the idea!
Kendra
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zimmer, Cindy" <cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Perforation experiment, model car kits.


> Mark,
> Sometimes when we do this, we keep our holes very close together.  Like 
> for example when we carve a pumpkin, we follow a template of a triangle 
> eye.  We use a stylus and poke tiny holes along the outline of the 
> triangle shape, then go back with a knife and cut out the shape using the 
> tactile outline we created.
>
> Cindy Z.
>
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> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 12:08 AM
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> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Perforation experiment, model car kits.
>
> Late last night after getting home from work, I made a body section 
> pattern
> from corrugated cardboard, pressed it down onto another sheet of
> corrugated  cardboard, and with a ball point pen, eyes closed, poked 
> perforation
> holes  around the pattern piece.  It worked.  The perforations matched the
> pattern.
>
> Then, with a razor blade, eyes closed again, attempted to cut the
> cardboard, running the blade from hole to hole.  I didn't do so well. 
> The blade
> went off course, and I had trouble feeling the holes with my  fingertips.
>
> I'm hoping that those of you test building the kits might use the parts to
> test any ideas you have for cutting your own parts.
>
> It's likely you will think of solutions that I haven't thought of.
>
> I'll start preparing the test kits this weekend.
>
> Hope everyone has a good weekend.
>
> Until later,
> Mark Crowel
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