This is why I like watching your videos on KZread +Steve Ramsey; I have never heard of a "Fibonacci Gauge" til now and this video is almost 9 years old. As soon as I get my table saw working correctly, this will be a most have build.

As a math teacher, I love that you used the clips from "Donald in Mathmagic Land." Side note: I don't know how stiff those rivet joints are, but it might be a cool addition to replace one with a bolt and knob so you can tighten the whole thing in position when you make one measurement.

@carolhama4156

2 жыл бұрын

Or stick a washer in between the wooden arms

Thank you. This is an excellent tool both for drawing and woodworking design.

Wow! Pretty darn helpful! I always knew the off center proportions were nicer but leave it to math and the Greeks! Great video

Thanks stevinmarin!!! I´ve just made my Fibonacci Gauge after I watch your video. Greetings from Brasil.

Correct ratio is: KLAATU! VERATA! NIK>>kough

Watching you're older vids... dude u have always been funny as hell!

Hey, I've used this video as inspiration for a mroject with my students. I teach geometry at a Philadelphia Charter HS, and I lead a project where every student leaves with ove of these to keep (not out of lacewood, mind you). Keep up the good work!!!

@welchclae Go to the link in the description box. On that page there is a PDF and a Sketchup file.

These would be handy for artist to have. Especially those studying Phi as a ratio in art history. That said, there is no reason you can't make others that have fractions scales to make scaled models of existing measurements. Ones in 1:3 and 1:4 might be useful (they'd also scale things by 3 or 4 if you start with the small jaws). I also think it'd be nice to make callipers that always point to the center of the span for dividing things in half.

Appreciated! It is still available. Thank you for sharing.

I love your enthousiasm !

Your video was fun to watch, you have a great personality! Rock On!

Hi Steve! I share your admiration of the Disney cartoon about "mathemagic." I thank you for bringing that to others' attention and for this primer of golden ratios. For your info, PHI is pronounced "fee" and the ratio is 1:1.618.

I'll definitely be making one of those, thanks for the vid.

Thank you for this great project Steve. Numbers are fun :)

@gunhimdown Yup

really handy to know considering the price of these on eBay for some reason I can only buy one from the US at $14 but it's £10 p&P so £20 for something I can make for less than £5 this video helped a lot

really cool vid! great info

I Just Subscribed to your site after watching this video, so that all said: My name is mike; as always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~ Ps; Look forward to watching more.

now this one i might try, it would really help me!

@Geissler745 Yes, but it's a dry rain...

Education AND a project!! Bonus!

love your truck

@RUIuiuiuiui This is a project you could most definitely make with hand tools!

Ever thought about making a sector? Really cool and useful tool.

Very excellent sir !!!!

Yep i sure do remember Missing Persons! Destinations Unknown was one of their best songs, Spring Session M. Remember the US festival?

You have good taste in music. Great video.

@keithupton5341

8 жыл бұрын

+1

now this one i might try, it would really help me! am i able to do this without any of those mechanic tools?

Fun and great video!!!! well done sir ...

Vc tem bom gosto! Eu também gosto do som da Missing Persons... Trabalho sempre ouvindo new wave ou new age...

it just so happens I hav a few scraps of lacewood laying around my shop looking for a project....this is it....if I am not mistaken, I have a WOOD magazine with the plans for a fibonacci guage as well as several mathmatical formulae concerning the deapth of drawers. I will see if I can dig it out.. Thanks for the podcast.

@Buzzsawman Yes! Wood Mag is the best. Check out the related video over there ----> "Fibonacci Gauge" by KZreadr, "sonouhuru". He does a way better job at explaining Phi and how to use the gauge in your designs.

Hello Steve, love this but I tried to follow the link to your page but it said the page doesn't exist. Is it no longer available? Please advise a mere mortal from the UK.

Hey Steve...Great video...Two questions - what size rivets did you use and what size holes did you drill? Thanks for the great videos!

Hi Steve. I enjoy your videos. I made one of these gauges yesterday. A quick, fast & fun project. Have you thought of incorporating the design into your logo?

@emuller5591

8 жыл бұрын

+Ken DeHaas where did you got the plans from? As said in the comments below, the link is not working so you may have a link or a drawing?

Golden mean: 1:1.618 This is the ratio of any two consecutive Fibonacci numbers. The larger the numbers, the more accurate the ratio. Fib numbers are numbers in a sequence starting with 0. It is a progression of the sum last two consecutive numbers. 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13.... etc up to infinity. PLEASE ASK IAN where he bought his Boston screws! Even Lee Valley (specialty hardware store in Canada) never even heard of them! I ended up using wire (from stripped down twist ties from a bunch of broccoli) and 8 two-holed shirt buttons! I could not find Boston screws ANYWHERE in Vancouver, BC after carefully drawing out the pentagon with compass and straight edge and labouring over matte boards to cut out my 4 caliper arms. Sheeesh!!! Thanks for the Donald Duck reference! Just what I needed...I want to get my grandson interested in math! But, first the Chinese Abacus (the Japanese style one is harder for a kindergarten kid).

@Eric333333333 Ha! I almost did! But I suspect I am far from phi.

Tks Steve.

@sappha58 That would be nice.

@Sodabowski Quoting Malibu Stacey: "Math is HARD!"

@RemoteHogg10 I'm not sure what size they were, but you can get them at Leevalley (dot) com

Tried to find the drawings on your site and couldn't. Can you make this available again?

+Steve Ramsey Do you know the source of where to get thos Rivets? Since this video, I've been on the Hunt, I never really knew what they were called. I've got some Knives that need Repairs and I'm interested in Building one of these Gauges for myself.

@wdworking Show-off!

@prenosilj124 Yeah man. 2x4s.

okay - I'm going to build myself some of these and use them to build better CIGAR BOX GUITARS !!!! Thanks for the GREAT IDEA !!!!!!

Im going to make one of those. If u use the gauge for the say lenght and width. how do u determine the right height??

The link to the template download isn't working at the moment.

please, template?

I have that movie, I love it!

Thank you for giving us this info. I wanna make some now. I've got pop-sicle sticks. ;-)

thank you I am from Mexico and hardly anybody knows abou it I always wanted to get me one

@specialks1953 Well, you see, math is a simple matter of...wait, what. Beer? Oh yes, beer is the basis of all modern culture and...wait, what were we talking about?

Could the Fibonacci sequence be formed by the spontaneous absorption and emission of light? All the info I can find says that this process is formed by the quantum wave particle function Ψ of quantum mechanics. When this is reformulated as a linear vector ǀΨ (t) > the two previous vectors are added together to form a new vector this forms the Fibonacci sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ∞ infinity! This is an invitation to see an artist theory of the physics of time!

wish i had "scrap" lacewood!!!

I found it...it is the November 2006 issue of Wood. ..It wasn't hard to find. .the issure is pictuered in the list of additional information down the side of my screen. I knew I had it somewhere. I NEVER throw away a woodworking magazine....one of these days my house is going to collapse outward from the weight of the magazines.

Where can I get the rivets that were shown?

nice

it would have been nice if you had mentioned the various lengths of wood you used.

@raz999.9

7 жыл бұрын

R'Lee Serratt 34cm, 34cm, 21cm and 13cm.

there's all types of metallic ratios, you should try a pair of plastic ratio calipers.

Ya gotta love a guy that includes both Donald Duck in Mathematical Land and Sketchup in a 7 minute video.....

@howtomakewallets KZread knows all...

did you by any chance use lace wood??

It is 1 to 1.618

Hi Steve! I have a question for you, i dunno if you'll ever see it, but one can hope. Q: Why are you so awesome and hilarious?

Steve, does the golden ratio please the eye naturally, or have we been trained to choose those ratio's to like the most because every bugger has been using it to design stuff for eons? I've downloaded the drawing anyway Steve thanks. Call in for a brew if you're in the hood. Manchester UK

@cvstudios3572

5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking this. A system always works and i guess since its all around we have trained our eyes to it. We just like consistency.

@Trevin_Taylor

5 жыл бұрын

It is naturally pleasing. That’s the whole point.

You a genius

Hai, your template link is not working. Greetings Rob.

Really enjoyed this one of yours Would it be possible to get the email of Mr. Waltinberry address for the brass rivets that you use

Hey Steve, I have a challenge for you. How about making something that will fold newspapers and band them? Can it be done with wood? I had a few ideas but they went in the round file. (I'm just a beginner woodworker).

That is if u express th sin^-1 in radian. Its not so suprising that u could find a relationship between an angle (54deg) (expressd in rad) and phi when "radian" IS simply an expression of that angle as a "slice of pi". (-; In other words, in ur attempt 2 relate pi as a calc on phi, u essentially inserted pi into ur calculation. That seems so no-no (-; Yes, sin54deg=1/2 phi, and also sin18deg=1/2 of 1/phi, so naturally 18 in rad is 1/10 of pi. (just as 54 in radian is 3/10 of pi)

what if you want to make a bigger furniture say a sofa for a small room like the one Mexican houses built wich is very very small and need to be proporcionate to the house. So it dont look to big acording to the size of the room wich is always the case here

I didn't find too, the link doesn't work. Please, I'd like to make one.

Rivet number 2: Uses pliers, Someone's thumb hurts? :P hehe, thanks for sharing this video! Interesting fact about the credit card too!

what is the measurement of fibinacci gate please?

Great

I could not find the plans on your website.

@arbyars.chicksawdust

2 жыл бұрын

Click on the link from above. It is there, because I downloaded today. 2/22/22

Can't find the template on your website. why is it so dam hard to get plans for one of these?

hi ramsey

Okay I give up, where do I find the rivets you used to assemble the parts?

@codyf3249

5 жыл бұрын

They are called compression rivets.

I miss the old Steve Ramsey videos.

But may i add--ANY two numbers as a starting point converges on phi in the same way, and basicly just as quickly! But seeing that u r likewise somewhat fascinated by this subject, pardon me for presuming to lay this one upon your fertile mind: 1/(any phi^odd) = (the decimal portion of that phi^odd) !! (any phi^even) = 1/[1 - (the decimal portion of that phi^even)] !! Such elegance! (,;

@JoeCubicle You are now excused from class.

I would like to download it but no exist!! :O

@OldSchoolSkill Curses. I just looked it up. Yep, I said it wrong. Wait, have I been pronouncing pi wrong too???? Yep, it's pee. ;-D

Anybody got plans with the size in the metric system????? (I'mm from germany and i always have to think how big your projects are....)

@raz999.9

7 жыл бұрын

Sebi Land search for fibonacci gauge or phi calipers in google images. You will see a nice, clear and simple illustration for measurements.

@lcerbaro

7 жыл бұрын

Just use imperial side of your gauge, I do the same sometimes when I need. (Metric system in Brazil)

@chusty

7 жыл бұрын

www.goldennumber.net/do-it-yourself/

i think its something that we do without thinking like marching in step with others

Link does not work...

Thumbs up for Missing Persons and REM. Well, the Fibonacci gauge, too.

This is kind of irrelevant, but what was the song playing around 6:40??

Please, what type of wood used? I want to answer at the earliest opportunity

@GregN456

9 жыл бұрын

Its called lacewood.

@dlwatib

9 жыл бұрын

Note that you could have had your answer immediately if you had only paid attention to what was said in the video.

Dude! I not only remember, but I had an album by missing persons. Remember those?

I just made Fibonacci calipers for my brother (who I'm flying to see for Thanksgiving) and was looking at it thinking: I wonder if they're going to let me carry this on the plane?

What is sketchup

Look up "Vitruvius The Ten Books On Architecture". Great book, lots of information on ancient building techniques, including the golden rule or the law of proportions.

It is 1.618......

Credit card dimensions are actually 85.60 by 53.98 mm, so their aspect ratio is 1.5857725. The "golden ratio" (phi) is 1.618.

@Randomfrikinhero

10 жыл бұрын

visually appealing, not mathematically appealing

@RFC3514

10 жыл бұрын

Depends on how high the credit limit is. ;-)

PHI 1.618 [ the number when calculated go''s on for infinity ] Gods number PHI, turns up in chemistry /Biology / mathematics and physics .