beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
i go by no rules at all and usually let the wood dictate the shape, if someone likes they'll buy it.
How can you go by 'no rules' surely if there aren't any rules then you can not go by them in the first place
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sorry just my attempt at humor
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Seven
what you say ties in directly with the rules, we humans see things in relation to the ratio. IE if we look at something and it immediately looks beautiful, balanced, and dare I say it 'right' then there is a string possibility it fits into the divine proportion/golden ratio, this
Beauty and the ratioLeonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man", is said to include the ratio and you can see in
this article how it can be broken down to the proportions of a humans fingers, the spiral of a snail shell.
So you may find that in fact you are 'following the rules'
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but just don't quite realize it.
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