Belly Pan Lightening Holes

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Proper diamond has the same # of diamonds wide as tall, which leaves a strip of metal directly connecting corner to corner. This "string" is very strong (at resisting parallelograming).

Arguably a pocketed bellypan isn't what you should really focus on though. Unless you have a reasonable excess of resources, there are better ways to allocate them.

That can depend. Our sponsor, for example, provided us with a belly pan for free, and actually wanted to show it off to potential customers because they loved it. If you needed to spend money or your own time to make one though, I would just use a wood bellypan.