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Plate 57: Constructing the Black Castle, Part 23: making a corbel
(This plate added MAR 2004)
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Here we see the corbel "assembly line". A 30-inch long, half-inch-wide strip has been cut from a foam-sandwich bulletin board. The stair-like outline of a corbel was marked lightly in pencil, and the surplus material was carefully cut away with the modeler's knife.
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Each corbel is a half-inch wide and three-quarters of an inch high. How many corbels can we make from a single bulletin board? The original board was 30 inches long and twenty inches wide. We can therefore cut 40 half-inch strips, each 30 inches long, from the entire bulletin board. Each 30-inch strip can yield 40 corbels, because each corbel is only three-quarters of an inch high. Therefore, a single inexpensive bulletin board provides enough material to make 1,600 (40 times 40) corbels!
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