"Spirals," in the Flooring Potpourri forum, begins: "I am not sure where to put this. I want it for Marmo, but I think carpet installers would have ..."
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Re: Spirals
use a compass and a protractor.... draw youself and cross hair ( like a rifle scope.. and then draw a circle from there... remember that a circle is 360 degrees... and decide on how many sections that you want. then divide 360 by that number.. say 12 sections... so 360 divided by 12 would be 30 degrees... then take your protractor and start from the cross hairs and start marking 30 degree increments... then line your straight edge up with your center mark and each 30 degree mark and draw a line out past your circle line... if you want a "snail" look then go past your circle on the 30 degree lines.. and then use the compass to draw from that mark to the other 30
degree mark.
or if you want a spiral mark even increments on your 30 degree lines starting from the center and connect the dots... it is harder to explain that it is to show... and
... I wish I could show you because it is easier that it sounds...
there is also a way with compass.. or just a stick to draw a hexogon wich is similar....... google how to draw a Hexagon with a stick... I believe there is also a Utube vidieo of how to draw a hexagon with a stick
hope this helps...
signed
" the tracer"
use a compass and a protractor.... draw youself and cross hair ( like a rifle scope.. and then draw a circle from there... remember that a circle is 360 degrees... and decide on how many sections that you want. then divide 360 by that number.. say 12 sections... so 360 divided by 12 would be 30 degrees... then take your protractor and start from the cross hairs and start marking 30 degree increments... then line your straight edge up with your center mark and each 30 degree mark and draw a line out past your circle line... if you want a "snail" look then go past your circle on the 30 degree lines.. and then use the compass to draw from that mark to the other 30
degree mark.
or if you want a spiral mark even increments on your 30 degree lines starting from the center and connect the dots... it is harder to explain that it is to show... and
... I wish I could show you because it is easier that it sounds...
there is also a way with compass.. or just a stick to draw a hexogon wich is similar....... google how to draw a Hexagon with a stick... I believe there is also a Utube vidieo of how to draw a hexagon with a stick
hope this helps...
signed
" the tracer"
Barry I had to make a rug a few years ago where it had to be a spiral. I used my vac hose and started to roll it up from inside out and drew my pattern of it and blew it up or enlarged it on my projector. Mine had to be two foot wide with 3 different colors within.
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Re: Spirals
barrycarlton said
So do I!
I am sorry if that is too confusing... get a piece of paper and do a small one first and you will see how easy it is... if you want e-mail me and have it in front of you and I will walk you through it...
use the Personal Message on here...
I cannot believe how many search phrases I tried, and never one with the word 'draw'
I also had forgotten that the Fibonacci sequence was so closely related to the Golden number 1.618.....
And to think I read an article about this very subject about a year or so ago
Thank you Roger
How big of a spiral?
Here's an idea.
Orange is a coffee can, carpet tube or broomstick... or whatever floats your boat.
Attach a string or picture hanging wire to the post and a pencil or a knife to the other end and start humming
"Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush.......
Definitely be harder to make the spiral progressively tighter if that's what you wanted. The carpet tube method I drew would make each wrap equal and you'd need to hand make the center ending point.
Use a 1/4 inch nylon rope and sandwich it between two John Denver LPs so it coils up like this for a progressively tighter spiral. You'd probably need two people to pull it off this way.
