Designing a Saxophone

[hobbestheprince]

Well, I might give it a shot into designing my own model. I posted a sax that Eric Joisel made, but contacted him and he told me it was for an older model which can be found on his site (it's in the musicians section where the 5 goblins are playing).

Anyways, he gave me some advice for making my own original saxophone. He said that box pleating would work best, and try to form a cylinder and go from there. My problem is, to form a cylinder wouldn't I just keep doing valley folds so that the model would wrap around nicely? I thought box pleating involved only alternating mountain and valley folds ... so that's what confuses me.

I couldn't find diagrams of cylinders anywhere on the net either

[Wizmatt]

From the pictures of his models you've posted earier, I think that you could use box-pleating, or twist folds to form the buttons. So you have a rectangle with the buttons on, then form a cylinder and overlap a strip, then you could crimp it to make the shape of a saxaphone.

[hobbestheprince]

Well, the thing is, that cp I posted is for a horn like instrument. Its on his official site, but it does not look like a sax. I am not concerned about the buttons, just the fact that I dont know if I should do alternating folds, or just valleys to get the cylinder shape. I tried alternating, like in standard box pleating, and it doesnt really make sense, yet that is box pleating ...

[Sunburst]

My advice is to use alternating folds anyway. If you do just valley folds, then the paper will end up trapped inside and completely unusable if you ever need it. Also, you might want to try making a flat saxophone first and if you succeed, shape it into a cylinder. I'm saying this because crimping a cylinder is very hard to do correctly, moreso if the cylinder is completely closed. By the way, what starting shape were you planning for your sax?

[hobbestheprince]

Sunburst: I was thinking of going the cylinder route, because crimping the bottom as mentioned would be easier. Details aren't important until I have the basic shape, and then I can mess around with it and get some buttons on there and stuff.

I tried alternating the folds as in regular box pleating the other night ... still doesn't make sense how it would form a cylinder because it ends up jagged looking. Perhaps I'm not folding it into itself properly? I wish there was a diagram for a regular cylinder to get how the folds would come together.

[hobbestheprince]

Well, I took a stab at it ... still the neck piece is rather jagged, so I took some pictures. If anyone could give me feedback that would be great.

[hobbestheprince]

First draft ... looking pretty rough:





Final draft ... I may paint it later on:

[Origamist388]

Looks nice,altough you might want to make the top part a little thinner.

[Cherbert]

cool if onley i were that good i would just crumple and then open a little at the end

[hobbestheprince]

I have to admit that mine is a tad crumply due to the final shaping. It still needs to be refined, but I think it turned out pretty good considering the first draft looked really weird.

[pelonso]

here is an origami sax that i have invented


here's the youtube link that describes how to do it
]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNtURJ4TezI

i hope you like it