If you're more than a little nerdy, you might like to learn how I used a bit of calculus in doing some string inlay. Just click on Calculus Meets String Inlay to read about it.
Great article Don. I would have never thought to use Calculus to lay out the peaks and valleys of the cosinusoidal shape. When I took Latta's class, even he had some difficulty describing how to lay it out. It made perfect sense to him, but was hard to describe. I will probably most likely defer to the "Joy of Using a String" first though. That's a great tip and is most applicable to my skill with calculus. I still saved your article to reference though. Thanks!
Mikeatsouthpond…. Thanks for your comment. Here's another idea since you want to lay calculus to rest. Just route out the channel, lay some string (def 1 type) in the channel, mark the string at the appropriate points, pull out the string (def 1 string) and lay it against the string (type 2 string) and transfer the marks. Then the channel can be whatever shape it has and not necessarily cosinusoidal or even periodic. Let me know your thoughts about this.
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