Comments on: A Few of My Favorite Holes

By: lawrence

lawrence — Thu, 26 May 2011 05:28:26 +0000

ah, the reuleaux triangle…my arch nemesis

bloody briliant from a mathmatical point of view–it’ll make your head spin if you think about it too hard. The convergance of three circles… also it is a curve of a consitant width (like a circle)

Lawrence

By: Jonathan Szczepanski

Jonathan Szczepanski — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:15:26 +0000

Bloody brilliant!

Jonathan
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By: Steve_OH

Steve_OH — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:48:11 +0000

I don’t know of any router bits for making square holes, but there are drills that cut square holes:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/drilling-square-holes-with-a-watts.html

-Steve

By: Joe "the Pro" Sainz

Joe "the Pro" Sainz — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:54:38 +0000

Nice picture Chris. I’ll see if I can get the engineers working on a square, stepped hole bit. I wouldn’t hold my breath though.

By: esincox

esincox — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:17:09 +0000

True Story:
A few years ago, I had a favorite pair of jeans that I loved to wear. I’d help do the wash just to make sure they were in it when they were dirty so I could wear them again sooner!

Towards the end, I had a hole in one knee. But I hadn’t given up on them – I was going to try and patch it to get a few more months of wear out of them.

So we went to Michael’s to try and find a patch. It didn’t jump right out at us, so we split up to search the aisles faster.

I knew I was close when I starting finding iron-on patches of rainbows and unicorns; I was about to say something when, from the next aisle over, I hear my wife say, in a normal voice, “Oh, this might work…”

And then, in a much louder voice that carried farther than either of us was comfortable with, she shouted, “HOW BIG IS YOUR HOLE?”