by Dave Guadagni

Answer for Last Week's Puzzler

If you had the tools and the inclination you could bend a 1/8" (0.32 cm.) thick strip of cherry wood into a hoop with a diameter of approximately 11" (27.94 cm.). What diameter hoop could you make with the same thickness of red oak? With western red cedar?

Answer: 

You could make a hoop approximately 8" (20.32 cm.) in diameter for red oak and 16" (40.64 cm.) for western red cedar.

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The answers to this week's puzzler will be published here next week.

Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects

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