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Monthly Archives: March 2012

3 vertical slices complete

March 21, 2012by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

See the full gallery on Posterous Today I had enough pieces cut and routed to dry fit and screw 2 wedges. Awesome. I can assemble a wedge in about 40 […]

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Tom Chudleigh has Big Balls

March 20, 2012by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

When I started thinking about building something that floats, I started with spheres. I pictured a giant ping pong ball that could hold 4 or 5 people. It would be […]

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First Day with Complete Templates

March 20, 2012by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

See the full gallery on Posterous Today, all the templates are done, so I am getting a sense for how much I can do in one morning. The result… I […]

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Finish Full-size Router Template, Rout 2 Verticals, and Dry Assemble

March 16, 2012by tsunamiChris 1 Comment

See the full gallery on Posterous Today I started by finishing the last couple of dadoes for the  full-size router template, and then cut two mating verticals. Everything went fine […]

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Making the Router Template to Make a Router Template

March 16, 2012by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

I want to make a full size router template to cut the rabbets for the vertical supports. This is a good job for the CNC router, but its raining this […]

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Cutting transverse supports on the bandsaw

March 15, 2012by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

I have been struggling with the CNC router as a part of my workflow. Loading the van with full sheets of plywood to drive to Menlo Park, unload, setup, struggle […]

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Laying out the cross section

March 13, 2012by tsunamiChris Leave a comment

As many times as you look at the tape measure and do sketches, you can never really “see” the scale of something until you start to build it. My son […]

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