Burningman 2007:
The Green Man
Skinning the Icosahedron 2
Wow! who woulda thought that making a 7' wooden ball would be so much work!
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Beginning side 2 of 20.
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I put out a call for help on the local burningman list and several people have responded and helped greatly. This is Elecktra pulling nails.
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and Elecktra marking boards.
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This side is going faster because I'm working from the bottom up. All the screws are pointerd down instead of me pushing upward to screw them in. Saves a lot of time and effort over that first side I did!
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Side 3 beginning. Making the 'frame' into which the rest of the boards are stacked takes the most time.
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Lesson learned, rather than add wood from top down, I chose to go diagonally this time.
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Jason cutting arcs using the under the leg technique.
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Me sanding the edges of the arcs of wood.
A little math-each arc has a radius of 41". By making sure each arc points right at the center of the sphere, each is part of a great circle and therefore has the same shape. If I didn't point then thus, each would have to be measured seperately and have a different radius.h6>med | big | huge
Pulling nails! The wood is free and left over from shipping marble and granite sheets, but comes in random sizes and filled with splinters and nails.
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Elecktra with the master arc template.
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Jason, Elecktra and Lance working away.
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Me measuring one of the standing 2x4s that is attached to the main struts as part of the frame. The string starts at the exact center of the ball and helps both with measuring how far away an arc is from the center and also in pointing the arc right toward the center-thus assuring it is part of a great circle.
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Starting sides 4 & 5.
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Overview of the arcs that have been cut and sanded. Over 1/3 of a mile of wood will be cut and sanded by the time I'm done.
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Piles of wood awaiting marking or cutting or sanding.
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The wedges sticking out are used to point the arcs at the center as the wood is stacked.
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The ball is getting heavy! I added some fixed supports to keep the stresses from breaking the supporting structure as I jerk on it as I work.
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I'm building this right next to the gas meters for the 4-plex I live in. This barrier is to keep a disasterous collapse from turning into a disasterous fire.
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The view inside of the ball.
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More piles of wood.
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Man! am I making a lot of good scrap wood for someone's burn barrel!
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Everywhere are stacks of wood. The wire screen is helpful in seperating the wood scraps from the mounting piles of sawdust that I'm generating.