My Art Prize project model(s)

You know them damn KIWI'S Mike. No ambition! I guarantee you that they would get a heck of a lot more for it if they built something like this, but it is 20 times as much work. I know I would be able to do it a lot faster the second time around as I have to figure everything out in my head and then draw it out to check my thought process. One thing I would certainly do is to have the company that makes the structural panels cut everything out with their computer mill.

The panels are heavy as hell and very hard to maneuver, and it would have been so much easier to have them cut everything down to the right size both from having to lift it and move it, but also to have them rout out the foam so I could spline them. I didn't think they could do it because of the compound angle mitre cuts, but they assured me they could. On the other hand, I know every little piece of that thing inside and out now. I also know how not to build one. That is important.

I am putting the roof of the cone together now and then I get to cut all of the slate and install it. That will be a lot of work...fun I mean. If you can build a cone, you can roof one. We are going to stucco the outside and plaster the inside, and I will make some tiny kitchen cabinets for it too. I wonder how much time I am going to have. It has to be done by September 15 and that is only about 15 weeks away. It is like building a house, because that is EXACTLY what I am doing.

Woody, I am hoping that some well heeled grand parents do the same thing. This will be beg enough and nice enough that someone could live in it for sure. It will never be "outmoded"

I made the jig for cutting the slate the other day and started cutting and installing the slate on the cone tonight. It is slick! If you go to one of the links I have posted on this page, it is constantly updated every time I put more pictures on. I believe it shows the jig and cutting some slates so far. More as the days progress.