things you've made
Excellent , with one "minor" , yet important detail...
Look at your actual hand in that position...
First , your thumb , is not Quite that long , or as skinny...
( should be a "shad" shorter and consider the width ,
as opposed to the other fingers...again a "shade" off
yet that does make a difference )
Two , the rest of the fingers...again , look at your own hand...
Are not the base of each finger , a shade wider , than the
rest of the finger , when considering the distance from
hand palm to first knuckle ?
In most people I have seen , there are those type of
subtle differences...( otherwise , excellent ! )
As you present better executed images over time ,
I shall offer things I did not before...
Know I love your work , and take it or leave it...
Looking forward to seeing the next one ,
and the completed triptych !
Look at your actual hand in that position...
First , your thumb , is not Quite that long , or as skinny...
( should be a "shad" shorter and consider the width ,
as opposed to the other fingers...again a "shade" off
yet that does make a difference )
Two , the rest of the fingers...again , look at your own hand...
Are not the base of each finger , a shade wider , than the
rest of the finger , when considering the distance from
hand palm to first knuckle ?
In most people I have seen , there are those type of
subtle differences...( otherwise , excellent ! )
As you present better executed images over time ,
I shall offer things I did not before...
Know I love your work , and take it or leave it...
Looking forward to seeing the next one ,
and the completed triptych !
and after cutting and shaping the pile of metal above into over 220 pieces, drilling over 1,000 holes, colour coding the 6 differing lengths, making 70+ discs from 3mm galvanised steel, and 500+ nuts and bolts later it became the structure for an 8 metre geodesic greenhouse (put up last Friday) - and that was after hand pick n' shovelling approx 40 tons of rocky clay to make a flat space in a sloping bit of the garden.
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Josh said:and after cutting and shaping the pile of metal above into over 220 pieces, drilling over 1,000 holes, colour coding the 6 differing lengths, making 70+ discs from 3mm galvanised steel, and 500+ nuts and bolts later it became the structure for an 8 metre geodesic greenhouse (put up last Friday) - and that was after hand pick n' shovelling approx 40 tons of rocky clay to make a flat space in a sloping bit of the garden.
... Literally the first place my brain went on seeing that picture...
Na, in all seriousness, great bit of engineering, that. Is it gonna be a greenhouse of some kind?
Edit: didn’t see the greenhouse bit in the original comment. Very good.
Blackwolf said:Vast amount of work , yet beautiful , Josh !
Long live Bucky's soul , and his vision !
Looks quite sturdy...how are your arms and back after all that ?
I started digging in January, bought the metal just before lock-down in March, and so it became my lock-down project ... arms & back o.k
... and by the way, have just been looking at this thread for the first time and love your carvings. All the best, Josh.
PS: extra dome pic from last night as the sun was setting
Josh said:
I started digging in January, bought the metal just before lock-down in March, and so it became my lock-down project ... arms & back o.k
... and by the way, have just been looking at this thread for the first time and love your carvings. All the best, Josh.
PS: extra dome pic from last night as the sun was setting
Stunning! Love the sunset through the bars!
I started digging in January, bought the metal just before lock-down in March, and so it became my lock-down project ... arms & back o.k
... and by the way, have just been looking at this thread for the first time and love your carvings. All the best, Josh.
PS: extra dome pic from last night as the sun was setting
Stunning! Love the sunset through the bars!
Miss_Sub said:
... Literally the first place my brain went on seeing that picture...
Na, in all seriousness, great bit of engineering, that. Is it gonna be a greenhouse of some kind?
Edit: didn’t see the greenhouse bit in the original comment. Very good.
Ah - the Crystal Maze with Richard O'Brian - that takes me back. I think it was a 'bastardised' geodesic dome, but Buckminster Fuller would not have minded; he liked people to experiment with his ideas.
... Literally the first place my brain went on seeing that picture...
Na, in all seriousness, great bit of engineering, that. Is it gonna be a greenhouse of some kind?
Edit: didn’t see the greenhouse bit in the original comment. Very good.
Ah - the Crystal Maze with Richard O'Brian - that takes me back. I think it was a 'bastardised' geodesic dome, but Buckminster Fuller would not have minded; he liked people to experiment with his ideas.
Ahavati said:
Stunning! Love the sunset through the bars!
Thank you. Now I just have to "fill in" the 100+ triangles (no more than 5 the same throughout) by making 'windows' - probably wooden frames with UV-resistant poly-tunnel plastic staple-gunned onto them. Hope to be done by Autumn in time for Winter planting to extend our growing season.
Stunning! Love the sunset through the bars!
Thank you. Now I just have to "fill in" the 100+ triangles (no more than 5 the same throughout) by making 'windows' - probably wooden frames with UV-resistant poly-tunnel plastic staple-gunned onto them. Hope to be done by Autumn in time for Winter planting to extend our growing season.
When i was 17, i built this and when i was about 40 something i sold it in a pawn shop for $50 bucks.
Evidently when i went online later i discovered i could have got a lot, a lot, a lot more.
O well, it's not like i spent hours and dollars of fun with this!
(i often hooked it up to my stereo for lighting effects - LOL
