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6th January 2006, 09:28 AM #1
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5 boxes
I've been faffing around with some impractical boxes on the theme of 'Platonic solids'. These are solid shapes that have a number of identical faces. Here are some results.
The tetrahedron is from purpleheart with silver ash trim- the top lifts off the flat triangular base.
The cube is from various timbers from my offcuts box
The octahedron is from silver ash
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6th January 2006, 09:30 AM #2
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6th January 2006, 09:36 AM #3
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Buddy hell Alex, buddy hell. You just can’t get those odd shapes out of your head can you?
I like the 3-D end grain chopping board though.
Have you used the blackwood and myrtle yet?
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6th January 2006, 10:03 AM #4
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6th January 2006, 10:04 AM #5
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Marvelous stuff Alex! Deserves a Greenie
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6th January 2006, 10:10 AM #6
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Ripper stuff Alex. Gives me an excuse to hoard even more small, useful pieces of stuff (offcuts to me - junk to the missus
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6th January 2006, 10:18 AM #7
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Too many big word in this post, but I will give you a greenie anyway
Love the box made from offcutsBrett
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6th January 2006, 10:33 AM #8
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That is great mate - I keep foolishly logging on here for inspiration and go away inspired but also very aware how far I have got to go to meet such fantastic work
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6th January 2006, 10:58 AM #9
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Amazing stuff, Alex! I take it you like a challenge?!!
Cheers,
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6th January 2006, 11:05 AM #10
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Great work.
Thanks for taking the time to photograph & post them too.
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6th January 2006, 11:14 AM #11
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that is awesome!!
i too am interested in how u cut all the angles so accurately.
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6th January 2006, 08:00 PM #12
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G'day AlexS,
Brilliant work! Greenie coming.
That very creative set of ideas has me plotting a number of similar thoughts, which will, hopefully, turn into items of pride as well.
Out of the three I'd vote #1 Pyramid, #2 Octahedron, #3 Cube (although the work in that most have been considerable!)\
Great stuff!
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6th January 2006, 08:28 PM #13
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Great stuff
What scale boxes are we looking at ?? About 6 inch or less I'm guessing.JunkBoy999
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6th January 2006, 08:43 PM #14
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Alexs:
Repeat all said above, super stuff! super stuff! super stuff! super stuff! super stuff! super stuff! super stuff!
Can I come back for some more lessons
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6th January 2006, 09:03 PM #15
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Brilliant designs Alex . Wongo's description of the 3-D chopping board is spot on
. I was looking for some repetition in the patterrn to give a clue as to how many pieces of rod you glued together to start off with but gave up;
Do you have a computer program to calculate the the angle for the octohedron etc ?I've just become an optimist . Iv'e made a 25 year plan -oopps I've had a few birthdays - better make that a 20 year plan
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