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Summary: Practicality
Review: Ever leave a tip for a waiter? Ever hand a hairdresser a couple bucks? Ever forget to get that "special gift" for someone's birthday?
This book is what you need. pull out a buck and fold one of these designs and impress all around. (Because some of these shapes are rather complicated, try what I do. I learn one shape a week and keep them foleded in my wallet as to be for quick and easy retrival. And when there is free time, fold some green!)
I have learned a Camel, Rooster, and Penguin so far and use them for almost any occasion.
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Summary: Practicality
Review: Ever leave a tip for a waiter? Ever hand a hairdresser a couple bucks? Ever forget to get that "special gift" for someone's birthday?
This book is what you need. pull out a buck and fold one of these designs and impress all around. (Because some of these shapes are rather complicated, try what I do. I learn one shape a week and keep them foleded in my wallet as to be for quick and easy retrival. And when there is free time, fold some green!)
I have learned a Camel, Rooster, and Penguin so far and use them for almost any occasion.
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Summary: Total confusion
Review: Having mastered the Klutz book I wanted to move on to more diversified origami animals using dollar bills. This book is impossible to follow. The author does NOT show dollar bills (so you can judge where you are going)only shades of gray. He uses a variety of arrows which are explained elsewhere in the book, and he shows with an insufficient number of pictures how to create the folds.
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Summary: Well worth the cost for any origami fan
Review: I have a number of dollar bill folding books, it's a wonderful way to share your talent by giving a more unique money gift to friends and family. Most of the animals I've learned to fold are relatively simple, although they have the advantage of being able to be folded from memory, great for (as someone else mentioned) leaving tips. These models are considerably more difficult than that as a rule, but what fun to be able to fold such a variety of animals! This book is definitely best meant for someone with experience with origami folding, particularly if you are familiar with John's diagramming, as there are some places where you can get a little lost. But overall, a very delightful and enjoyable book.
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Summary: THE BEST OF ALL ORIGAMI BOOKS
Review: I received the Dollar Bill Animals in Origami by John Montroll as a gift and its one of the finest books in my collection. I want to make all the animals shown in the book and display them. I tried the elephant and found the instructions to be crisp and clear. I am sure the kangaroo, camel and the giraffe will take some more effort. But the trick is in doing a few steps at a time and repeating them over a few times and then proceeding. That way the steps are automatically memorized too!
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Summary: Wow. Montroll takes a new path, and boy is it fun to follow!
Review: Just got the book, it has 32 Folds, all of animals. 5 the author calls Easy. 24 Moderate. 3 Difficult. These instructions have a lot of detail but little text to explain the more difficult folds. I found myself stuck on a few folds not able to determine what I was supposed to do, usually I stumbled into it though. Most models are too difficult to memorize. Since I like to make folds to give as tips it's kind of a bummer. I think about 30% of each fold can be eliminated to simplify if you want to memorize them or just make it easier to do. I don't see how anyone can make such great detail out of a dollar, some of the smaller detail requires folding that for me is like folding a marble, I just can't do it. There are a few pages that explain what each type of fold is and specific types of lines explain most of what you need. I guess if I was a real Origami person this would be all I need. Well worth the Ten bucks or so. Wish I could find a book with all the cool stuff I have seen, or a web site. I recommend this book to anyone that likes to make Origami out of dollars for tips and such. There are a lot of web site that have Dollar Bill Folds, but it's difficult to find them. The folds in this book are far better and have better directions than any I found on the net. One simple thing I can suggest for all your Dollar Bill Folds is to get Crisp new dollars, or if you Iron your dollars that helps a lot too.
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Summary: Cute little animals
Review: Maybe because we see money every day folding it into origami is very interesting, This book has clear instructions on how to make a variety of animals from dollar bills. (Use the Look Inside feature on Amazon to see the variety of origamis you can make.) The instructions have a clear diagram for every step of the folding.
That doesn't mean folding animals is easy. Dollars don't hold creases very well, and both sides of the dollar are the same color which makes following a diagram difficult. Also like in normal origami the cooler it looks the more frustrating it is to make it (usually). Duck Star and Fish are pretty easy to fold, but as for Unicorn- whew boy.
I recommend this to people who want to give money as a gift, but still make it personal, or to people who just think it would be cool to do origami with money. They patterns are cute, and there are not so many books on money folding out there.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: The problem with many money folds is that they are pretty much impossible to do with ordinary U.S. currency, Peter Engel's "Dollar Bill Crab" is a good example. Montroll does not fall into that trap. Each of these models are quite "foldable" with a bit of practice, and many of them are quite easy to memorize. If you want something different besides traditional origami, this book is a good choice.
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Summary: Currency Cornucopia
Review: This book has a terrific variety of animals that can be made out of dollar bills, assuming you already have some knowledge of origamiFinally you can whip out a bill at a bar and produce a realistic-looking rendition of your favorite horse, rabbit, gazelle or dinosaur. This book is a must!
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Summary: A world in a dollar
Review: Unlike others, dollar bill origami designs are apparently more challenging owing to small papers. In addition to beautiful or logical, It should be foldable-- after all, a dollar bill is so small. Montroll shows his readers here how versatile he is, and he is still a shining first-rate folder. How can he fold over 30 different animals in a tiny dollar bill. These vivid animals range from easy toucan, seahorse to intermediate tricertops, kangaroo to complex elephant, giraffe and camel. Some models need careful work, but the results are quite satisfying. Novice folders will have endless joy while veterans will find many surprises here. In my opinion, among all 32 models I like the turtle most. Neat,logical,3D,it is a masterpiece. Highly recommended .
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