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Comment by Retr0id

3 days ago

Cutting cardboard in straight lines with scissors is easy, but cutting convex curves other shapes is really not, especially if you want to avoid bending it and collapsing the corrugation. Personally I use a knife, but obviously that isn't suitable for very young kids (not hugely safe for me either lol, I almost cut the end of my thumb off not too long ago...)

Convex curves can be approximated by a series of straight cuts tangent to the desired arc. It's concave curves that are difficult.

If convex curves are too hard, just make a concave curve and keep the other side.

  • I am not sure if this is board stretcher-level pranking or actual advice. Bravo!

  • The problem of course is that often one side of the curve is mangled/distorted from fitting the tool into it --- guess which one it usually is?