Popular Post joe mendel Posted January 16, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) The brick pattern is segments of paduk with maple veneer replicating mortar in a masonry pattern. Cutting slices off the blocks which I glue up and alternating form one block to another and flipping and rotating the individual four-row sheets makes for a random placement of the grain color variations. The two rim gears are made from 24 pieces of quartersawn wenge in a three-layer bricking pattern making for a very stable plywood type of application. Cutting the involute teeth on the scroll saw then cleaning the saw kerf with a Grobert file went rather efficiently. I wrapped a piece of black palm in black dyed veneer then cut slices as if I were slicing lunch meat which created what I hoped would look like asphalt roof shingles. Then I put the roof onto a little shack made from yellow heart clapboard siding with holly trim and mahogany windows and entry door. The utility shack was made to hide a step motor from view. The inner gears which register the rim gear are maple with East Indian rosewood axles with ebony and yellow heart warning medallions. The other gears are shop fabricated quartersawn white oak gears of three layers with the center layer offset 90 degrees from the otter layers. The use of quartersawn material in the gear making will hopefully minimize the wood movement from making my circular gears into oval shapes. The back of the structure has a quarter-inch thick cherry burl book matched cherry ledge. The support structure of the “Gears for Spheres” apparatus is built using bubinga shop made plywood. The troughs are Honduran mahogany, and the hand sculpted gear loader is maple. The element sits I the M7 tiers attached to the tabletop with three brass screws. Before I get asked, yes it works exactly like it looks it should work. Edited January 16, 2022 by joe mendel photo 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 Wow! That is a finely executed bit of extremely intricate work! The bricks and shingles look amazing, a testimony to the attention paid to those details. I'm a fraid you have a lot more patience than I! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe mendel Posted January 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 I have five children and there have been no chalk outlines of any bodies so far, so patience has been a big part of my life. :) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3nry Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 I'm fascinated to see what this project ends up being ... amazing construction every step of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/15/2022 at 10:36 PM, wtnhighlander said: Wow! That is a finely executed bit of extremely intricate work! The bricks and shingles look amazing, a testimony to the attention paid to those details. I'm a fraid you have a lot more patience than I! Couldn’t have said it better! Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronn W Posted January 18, 2022 Report Share Posted January 18, 2022 I thought that I had patience and focus, but Wow. Beautiful work. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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