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A project with a twist

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:09 pm
by EddieJ
This one kind of evolved to be very much different from my original start intention.

I had intended to build a rose arch from circles, but rather than have them flat as laid out below, I was going to twist each one by approx 30 degrees.

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After gathering them all back up again, I inadvertently laid them into a spiral, and the rest as they say is history.

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Re: A project with a twist

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:48 pm
by royaloakcarpentry
The rose arch would never have worked anyway. Big sheet of ply would have stopped people walking through!

The maggot statue looks good though. Or could it be a caterpillar. Good bit of art when there are a few possibilities of what it resembles.

Re: A project with a twist

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 7:21 pm
by southwood3
I might have to nick that idea. BTW, why didn't you use all the discs?

Re: A project with a twist

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 9:21 pm
by EddieJ
Royaloakcarpentry, thanks for the tip about the rose arch. :lol:
I don't know why, but it didn't seem to photograph very well. The shape makes far more sense when seen in the flesh so to speak, than it does in the photos. :scratch:

Southwood, when I machined up the discs, there was sap wood on some of them, so I threw them away.
The overall height is 800mm, which seemed to work quite well for a bird bath.

Re: A project with a twist

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 9:25 pm
by thescruff
Bird bath :shock: I thought it was an ash tray :lol:

Looks good anyway :thumbright: