Hi, this is Teri with Tree Marie Soapworks. Today I'm going to be showing you
why I slant my rulers when I divide my bars. This soap was made in my 9 bar slab mold.
And when I measure it it's a little less than 10 inches it's 9 and15/16. So
when I put 9 and 15/16 into the calculator. And then I divide that by 3, I get 3.3125, which is 3 and 5/16.
So when I would divide this by 3, I would divide it every three and five-sixteenths. So that's kind of difficult
to count three and five-sixteenths. The same with it going this way it's 6.625
or six and 5/8 inches. Divide that by three and you get this number,
2.83 repeating,
so, it doesn't even divide equally into any fractions. So I use my slanted ruler
trick to divide them equally. And I'll show you how I do that. Since I've
already cut the soap I made a piece of paper that's the same size so I'm going
to show you on this paper. Normally in my videos, you see me using an
architect's scale and I really like this because it has very small increments.
And my favorite increment is the quarter inch scale, so basically what they're
saying is every quarter inch on a drawing, would equal a foot in real life.
And if you're not familiar with American measurements, 1/4 of an inch is roughly
equal to 7 millimeters. So every number on this fourth-inch scale equals a whole
number so 1/4 of an inch is 1 and then 1/2 an inch is 2 and so on, so this paper
is 40 long. So I need a number that's divisible by 3 so I can divide this
equally by 3, so I pick 42, and 42 divided by 3 is 14, so I make a mark every 14.
I mark at the 14 and then the 28, and I have an equal division of 3. Since most
of you don't have architect scales you can use another ruler here we have
inches, and you can see that this is not going to work, because you would either
use a 9 or a 12 and a 12 is too long and 9 is too short to get your divisions by 3.
So we will use centimeters and this
centimeter ruler isn't ideal because it's very hard to tell where the edge of
the ruler is where the mark goes down. That's why I like my architects scale. It
has little grooves and those little grooves go down to the edge of the paper.
But we'll do the best we can for this. Okay, so on our centimeters ruler we need
to find a measurement that is divisible by three, that is bigger than the width
of the paper. So our paper is 25 centimeters, so we need to use the next
number up that's divisible by 3 which is 27. So we take 27 divided by 3 and we get
9, so we make a mark every 9 centimeters. So 9, and then 18 and that'll be your
equal divisions of 3 and you can slide your ruler down and measure it again
just to get another reference point or you can slant your ruler the other way
and do it again, and then you'll have two points to connect, and if you're using it
for soap, of course, you would use a knife to cut it, but since I'm using this
cutter, I only need one reference point. And you can see how accurate this is.
Okay, now let's get the other measurement and we are also dividing this side by 3.
So just to let you know though you can use any measurement if you're dividing
this by 2 worried if you're dividing it by 7 you just need to get a number
that's divisible by those numbers and just divide it up, so in this case, we're
using 18. So 18 divided by 3 is 6 and so we mark every 6, so we mark on the 6 and
the 12. And then I'm going to cut this up the same way and show you how accurate this is.
And here we have it, nine equal bars. Now, let's say we want to divide this same
size of mold into four bars one way and four the other way. so we need to find a
number that's divisible by four, so in this case on the long way, I would use
28, and I would take the ruler and put a zero on one end and the 28 on the other
and I would take 28 divided by four and I would get seven, so I'd mark every
seven. So the same thing with the other side, I would find a number that's
divisible by four that's a little bit bigger than the length that I'm
measuring so, in this case, it would be a 20, so I would divide 20 by four and I
would get five, and I would make a mark every five, so that's just an easy way to
make divisions very quickly and very easily.
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