April 8, 2008: Recycle

[glatt]

Very interesting. I wonder how he worked with such short strips.

Normally, long strips are attached to temporary forms that are a foot or so apart. With such short strips, you'd need many more forms spaced more closely together. Or else scarf all those chopsticks together to make long strips. But then you have lots of waste.

Hmm.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

Normally, long strips are attached to temporary forms that are a foot or so apart. With such short strips, you'd need many more forms spaced more closely together. Or else scarf all those chopsticks together to make long strips. But then you have lots of waste.

...Ogawara spent over 3 months gluing 7,382 chopsticks together into strips to form the canoe shell,...

It sounds like he made long strips first?