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[yoippari]

I'm trying to wrap this bottle. I have a bunch of aluminum 16ga 1/4" that I am using to do a hp3-1 band at the bottom and at the top of the cylinder and am doing another that connects at the top hp chain bellow the handle and wraps around the opposite side at the bottom of the neck. I want to connect the hp bands at the opposite side of the handle with a euro 4-1 triangle.

The problem is that I can't get the contractions right. I want the triangle to wrap around the curve of the bottle naturally but it keeps on pulling the hp band up or bunching up in the middle of the triangle. Is there a similar wrap I can use as a template that I just haven't found yet?

Edited by yoippari, 30 May 2012 - 05:13 PM.

[Dodecahedron]

If i read you right. you tried something like this

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along the face of the bottle on the side opposite the handle

EDIT: the forum cut out the spaces in front of the )('s so i put .'s

But it sags at the edges, as triangles will. one way to circumvent this is to use multiple triangles that connect at the bottom o each other. Adding an extra row or three below where the triangles join will further disperse the sag at the corners if the band at the bottom is wide enough add tight around the bottle it may sag less depending on whether the face is straight vertical or not. Joining two smaller triangles in an hourglass shape will have a smaller amount of sag/unit. Multiple hourglasses around a bottle looks snazzy especially if you highlight the ring in the middle of the hourglass with a different size gauge or material.

Edited by Dodecahedron, 31 May 2012 - 01:09 PM.

[yoippari]

I tried to build a straight triangle from the hp3-1 trim after having a single row of 4-1 rings around the entire circle. This hp3-1 is dense enough that it is a very narrow triangle and many of the rings in the middle are very... whats the term? perpendicular? just a bunched up and loose euro4-1. So I tried bridging three rings instead of two on the bottom and that was just too tight. Trying other contractions pulled the sides up even more but it was tight at the sides and bunched in the middle still.

I will try the multiple connected triangles. see if that works with what I have going.