Burningman 2007:

The Green Man

First Prototypes

How to make a wooden ball? I start with a few ideas.
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The first "ball" began as a pile of free palette wood that I glued and nailed into a double layer and cut into rings.

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More rings could be added, but I put this ball on hold because it was just not big enough to be impressive.

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The next "ball" started as 3-4 foot long 2x2s joined orthogonally at their middles.

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Then more 2x2s are added at a 45 degree angle with glue and screws.

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By adding more and more complexity-more 2x2s in my expanding fractal of a ball-I want to make enough attachment points to be able to easily add a 'skin' of small pieces of wood to give the ball a solid surface. I hope to have so many attachment points that the skin pieces will overlap some to strengthen the ball.

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In this shot, you can see the radius string I used to measure how long each 2x2 should be.

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