A friend asked my work on some decorations for her wedding. Currently, I’m stuck on this problem that I don’t know how to fix. Basically, I am attempting to cut out a pattern on some wood veneer faces ...

With its magical sparkle and classic beauty, there's really nothing quite like antique cut glass. Your grandma's china cabinet was probably full of it, and if you're like many of us, you inherited ...

Don't have a lathe you can work metal on? The next best thing is just watching it happen. Here's one cutting a spiral pattern into a workpiece, much like the texture on metal stairs used to increase ...

This paper develops a formulation of the one-dimensional trim problem when there is a fixed charge associated with using a cutting pattern. The purpose of the fixed charge is to limit the number of ...

A metamaterial inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, can support nearly 3000 times its own weight. Metamaterials have structures not found in nature, which can give them unusual ...