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Taskboard®

The model-making fiber board. Half the density of chipboard.

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Made with Taskboard®

Six things people make with it. Each chapter opens with the best of its kind; 91 photos in all.

Architecture

Study models, site models and facades that stay flat and take a knife.

17 photos

  • White architectural model built from Taskboard
  • Architect cutting Taskboard with a craft knife while building a model
  • Topographic architectural site model made from stacked Taskboard layers
  • Curved architectural model formed from water-dampened Taskboard

How architects use it

Laser cutting

Fast cuts, light scorch marks, and etching with real contrast.

17 photos

  • Laser cutter cutting a sheet of Taskboard
  • Intricate laser-cut Taskboard panel with clean, light edges
  • Masquerade mask laser-cut from Taskboard, worn
  • Laser-cut panel with an intricate organic pattern and clean, light-colored edges

Laser settings and tips

Classroom

Scissors on the 1/32" sheet. Masks, animals and mobiles from K-12 art rooms.

25 photos

  • Child cutting 1/32 inch Taskboard with scissors for a school project
  • Children making an art class project with Taskboard
  • Children’s project built from Taskboard
  • Formed Taskboard sculpture made by children

Lesson plans for teachers

Art and forming

Dampen it, shape it, let it dry rigid.

20 photos

  • Rooster sculpture formed from Taskboard
  • Calder-style mobile made from watercolor-painted Taskboard
  • Watercolor paper flower formed from Taskboard
  • Forming and sculpting examples made from dampened Taskboard

How forming works

Model railroads

Scratch-built structures in HO, O and G.

10 photos

  • Model railroad bridge with brick arches, with a locomotive and passenger car on top and cut track pieces below
  • Model railroad building detail with a weathered stone wall, wooden doors and an old car inside
  • Weathered model railroad boxcar on a work table, painted and lettered
  • Scratch-built model railroad building with window frames and painted brick patches on a weathered wall

Railroad scratch-building

DIY

Gears, boxes and working prototypes. The gears are cut by hand from laminated sheets.

2 photos

  • Finger pressing a black-faced gear cut from 1/8 inch board, with wooden pegs for axles
  • Gearingschematiclarge3, made from Taskboard

How to cut and glue it

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