How Do You Build A Toothpick Bridge?
Building Toothpick Bridges is a common hobby that has no age limit. Building Toothpick Bridges is also a common school project giving to kids with the goal to build the strongest in the class. This article will cover the basics to building a simple strong Toothpick Bridge. Step 1 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4917866/toothpick-bridge2_Full.jpg’); }); First thing to do is hand draw out the main truss for the bridge on graph paper, using the squares on the graph to make the 45 degree angles needed for the design of the bridge in this article. When drawing the bridge truss you should mark every where the toothpicks start and end that way you can stagger the seems where doublers are used. [see picture in step-5 fig-2] The total length of your bridge is open to your needs and the height of the upper part of the bridge truss should be based off one full toothpick. The length of your b
