What have you folded lately?

Didée · Post by **Didée** » February 18th, 2010, 8:33 pm

Sushy wrote:Designer: Nguyen Hung Cuong
Paper: Lokta 50x50
Model: Eagle

Very well done! Lokta is nice paper, but if it's similar to the ~60g/m² Lokta that I happen to have, then it is toooo thick for this model. You probably have noticed that. Good job in dealing with the thickness!

Sushy · Post by **Sushy** » February 18th, 2010, 9:49 pm

thanks Didée. Well it got very thick at the feets, as one can see.
Actually I dont know how heavy the paper is. I think I ordered it 20g/m^2.

Didée · Post by **Didée** » February 18th, 2010, 11:13 pm

By chance, did you order your Lokta from http://www.loktapapier.de? That's where I ordered mine. The site states the paper has a weight of 20g, yes. But alas, they mean the weight per sheet, not per square meter. One B2 sheet does indeed weight 20 grams (or even a litle bit more), and 20/0.7/0.5m =~ 57. That was quite a disappointment to me. I thought I've ordered a very leightweight lokta paper, but in fact it's rather thick-ish, not thin at all. (Now I have 60 sheets of that Lokta, and no good plan what to fold with it...)

Post by **origami_8** » February 18th, 2010, 11:22 pm

I can't imagine that the weight is given per sheet. Don't make the mistake to confuse weight with thickness. Most natural papers feel a bit thickish while they are indeed very lightweight. On the other hand there are papers that seem very thin and maybe are even translucent and still are very heavy like for example Glassine (Transparentpapier). GSM is no indication for thickness but only tells the paper weight.

Lokta is suitable for tessellations and for wetfolding.

Didée · Post by **Didée** » February 18th, 2010, 11:50 pm

I can't imagine that the weight is given per sheet.

I wouldn't have thought of that, either. But be assured, I'm not confusing anything. As it seems, they really state the weight per sheet. To be sure, I actually have done a weighting by myself. Took 10 sheets, put them on the kitchen scales, and the display showed 212 grams. That's 21g per sheet. One sheet is 50x70cm. That's 60g per m², beyond any doubt.

Tsunami Sanzaku · February 19th, 2010, 11:16 am

Pangolin designed by me...

Yannick GARDIN · Post by **Yannick GARDIN** » February 19th, 2010, 1:46 pm

You folded it very well, but I don't think you made different size of scales. Am I wrong ?

Tsunami Sanzaku · Post by **Tsunami Sanzaku** » February 19th, 2010, 2:38 pm

nope... look at the scales on the back and the tail, you'll see the different...

Yannick GARDIN · Post by **Yannick GARDIN** » February 19th, 2010, 2:49 pm

You're right ! I need glasses !!
What is the size of original square ? and finished model ? And the paper used ?
I folded mine from 1 metre square of kraft paper (70g/m²) and I obtained a 35-40 cm model. And scales from 0.5 (the littlest) to 3 cm (biggest).

Tsunami Sanzaku · Post by **Tsunami Sanzaku** » February 19th, 2010, 3:04 pm

hmm... mine is 1,2m square of wrinkled silver paper , finished model is about 50cm... the scales size are 2,5cm to 6cm...

Whitefly · Post by **Whitefly** » February 19th, 2010, 4:50 pm

Didée wrote: That's 60g per m², beyond any doubt.

Very well done!! Didee

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Mario

eteokles · Post by **eteokles** » February 19th, 2010, 5:35 pm

Brian Chan's "Shore Crab"

Folded from 50cm square of tissue paper back-coated with MC. I also use some PVA white glue for finishing details, mostly for the legs so to stiffen them and make the model stand.

Eteokles

Didée · Post by **Didée** » February 19th, 2010, 5:51 pm

@Whitefly: Yeah, I'm good at higher math. Just yesterday I calculated the squareroot of 4. Purely mental, without using a calculator! Tomorrow I'll try with 9.
I like humor and irony. But hey, there was suspect I couldn't tell stone from clay ... so I just clarified that the stone really is stone, not clay. I generally know what I talk about.

To return to thread's topic: pastime during lunchbreak at work...

(not completely finished, since the bell rang some minutes too early.)

Post by **origami_8** » February 19th, 2010, 8:17 pm

Flower staircase by myself.
The staircase was a by-product I designed for my carousel some time ago. The flowers are my simple flowers with wire stems that are wrapped in crepe paper. The base is also a simple flower but with a sightly different reference point what makes it tighter.
Diagrams for the flower can be found on our Origami Austria homepage.

Froy · Post by **Froy** » February 19th, 2010, 8:31 pm

Giraffe by Artur Biernacki from CP.

I have to fix the neck and make some chaneges in my folding sequence to avoid some creases marks that are not needed.

Nice model.