11-04-2024, 07:20 AM
2 November - A Doll A Day 2024:
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As I was on this project, which at this point consists of glueing two flat sheets of corrugated cardboard together, I found myself wondering if it would make more sense to have simply purchased and used a sheet of foamcore board. The cardboard was from some parcels I'd received in the mail so the cost was "free," but I used glue to glue the sheets together and masking tape to seal the edges to hold the sheets in place. Masking tape isn't cheap anymore. School glue is still relatively inex-pensive, particularly since I still have about half a gallon that I purchased a few years back. But foamcore board is pretty cheap when it is in stock at the Dollar Tree store. Not "free," but pretty cheap.
Then I thought about previous projects in which I had used Dollar Tree foamcore board which had warped or sagged, resulting in my glueing two or even three sheets together to get adequate rigidity for my purposes.
The cost comparisons for tape and glue and "free" cardboard relative to purchased craft boards led me to recall something I'd read a few weeks ago when I'd been researching the history of square-drive Robertson screws compared to slotted screws and Phillips-head screws. In the early years of the 20th century, Ford Motor Company discovered they could shave considerable time off the manufacture of an automobile by using square-drive Robertson screws. The savings in time and worker hours more than made up for the higher cost of square-drive screws relative to slotted screws. For the purposes of mass production it made sense to purchase the more ex-pensive screws.
I am only making one item, so the mass production savings over time do not really apply to my situation. The screw conversation, however, arose on Flickr, which set me thinking about Flickr, and about some comments I had posted earlier in the day which I possibly could have worded more concisely for better clarity, so I took a break from my cardboard and glue project to revisit my Flickr comments from an hour previously and edit them.
And yet I wonder why I never finish anything I start. Now you know... and in theory, so do I.
Not that it'll make any difference in how I approach things.
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Cardboard 'n' Tape 'n' Glue
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As I was on this project, which at this point consists of glueing two flat sheets of corrugated cardboard together, I found myself wondering if it would make more sense to have simply purchased and used a sheet of foamcore board. The cardboard was from some parcels I'd received in the mail so the cost was "free," but I used glue to glue the sheets together and masking tape to seal the edges to hold the sheets in place. Masking tape isn't cheap anymore. School glue is still relatively inex-pensive, particularly since I still have about half a gallon that I purchased a few years back. But foamcore board is pretty cheap when it is in stock at the Dollar Tree store. Not "free," but pretty cheap.
Then I thought about previous projects in which I had used Dollar Tree foamcore board which had warped or sagged, resulting in my glueing two or even three sheets together to get adequate rigidity for my purposes.
The cost comparisons for tape and glue and "free" cardboard relative to purchased craft boards led me to recall something I'd read a few weeks ago when I'd been researching the history of square-drive Robertson screws compared to slotted screws and Phillips-head screws. In the early years of the 20th century, Ford Motor Company discovered they could shave considerable time off the manufacture of an automobile by using square-drive Robertson screws. The savings in time and worker hours more than made up for the higher cost of square-drive screws relative to slotted screws. For the purposes of mass production it made sense to purchase the more ex-pensive screws.
I am only making one item, so the mass production savings over time do not really apply to my situation. The screw conversation, however, arose on Flickr, which set me thinking about Flickr, and about some comments I had posted earlier in the day which I possibly could have worded more concisely for better clarity, so I took a break from my cardboard and glue project to revisit my Flickr comments from an hour previously and edit them.
And yet I wonder why I never finish anything I start. Now you know... and in theory, so do I.
Not that it'll make any difference in how I approach things.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!