Making a Chaotic Patterned Segmented Sphere
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- I have made another segmented sphere. In building this sphere, I used a random pattern of segments similar to that used in many chaotic cutting boards. I cut the scrap pieces of pine wood into short lengths and stack them together to make a length of end grain material. Then I cut this at a 30° angle to start to make a pattern of angled segments. I did this three times. Then I cut the chaotic pattern into equilateral triangles and glued them into an icosahedron. I rough cut this icosahedron on the fourth axis of the CNC into a sphere. Finally, I finished the sphere on the lathe. I had meant for this to just be a prototype to play with and study how the patterns work, but it ended up being a nice project in itself so I made it into a video.
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The humor of the giant pencil ✏️ was not lost on me 🤣
Nor me JB... Loved the look in his face too...
I thought I was the only one who loved it! I immediately went to amazon and purchased a couple for my Dad, who is very into woodworking. He's constantly losing his marking pencils, AND last summer he had an incident with a knot kicking up the table saw guard (he had done everything right, bc I was ready to read him the riot act if he hadn't), and the knot giving way so quickly that unfortunately he lost the tip of his fingers in 2 places. A perfect storm of "this shouldn't happen but if it does its ok if this and this didn't happen" sort of thing.
genuinely laughed out loud XD
I'm glad that was funny
@@frankmakes we all enjoyed it!
Nothing like a Sunday morning coffee and Frank's latest project video!
Or a sunday afternoon with a couple of beers.
Moments I look forward to
Blacksmithing videos: "Check out this cool Damascus"
Frank: "Hold my coffee."
The sphere making technique really seems to be perfected now. Some of the previous ones have had slightly out of alignment joints but this one seems perfect. I love the pattern as well.
yes, this one went together rally well
You’re like an addiction, Frank. We always WANT MORE. Brilliant and beautiful.
The beauty in this project is the chaos within the pattern. I think this is a completely different project than attempting to establish a definite, discernible pattern in the wood. I like this just the way it came out.
What a gorgeous project! I really love the way you show your whole process, from the concept on. I'm not even a woodworker, but I find your videos both soothing and inspiring.
When it's a random pattern you have invented wood doodling! Beautiful!
Also- Doing the sphere on the C&C was a PERFECT example of "work smarter not harder" - I salute you, sir!
Just when I think you can't get any better...you do something like this....AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF. You and Diresta are brilliant and brillianter...Don't know if that's a word...but hey...this channel invents new stuff all the time. Thanks for another great project
That has a remarkable texture. The curves in the end grain look like feathers. The colors the colors!
Fun to watch Frank, Thanks! You'll have a bespoke bocce set pretty soon!
That is really stunning! The curving of the pine grain really helps camouflage as well, and overall it just creates an object that doesn't let your eye settle in one place for too long, but in a really nice way
Looks great, Frank. I still can't wrap my head around how you made this one and now you're moving on to something even more complicated. Take care.
Bill
All of your segmented projects are so fun to watch come together, but this is the wildest one yet! Constantly in awe or your ability to both conceptualize your projects and make alterations on the fly as you work.
We always want more! I want to see this combined with the idea behind the resin and wood globe so that random triangles are translucent resin. Then if you do multiple, you can drill a hole in them, insert some LEDs, and hang them as a chandelier. Your process for making spheres is so interesting to watch!
Frank makes the most out of this world object from the most out of this world piece of home made plywood.
I look for all of your videos. I always can’t wait to see the next one. Thank you for sharing Sir.
Absolutely stunning Frank!
I love the look of the pine. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us.
Wow! I can't wrap my head around where you come up with these genius ideas. First thought when I saw the completed and finished sphere at the end was -- drill three holes and go Nerf bowling😂
Seeing this project partially complete, made me think of a D20 Dice. I'd love to see you make a giant D20 nice, give it some kind of sudo marble/epoxy surface look, and put some kind of logo of yours in place of the number 20. (A fairly common thing among custom dice makers.)
That would be so cool!
that would be cool, and it has crossed my mind. I would have to get into the custom dice world though
That pencil jab at Jimmy...hilarious.
Dude. That's awesome. Loved how you detail each step in the process! I've got a ton of scrap pine I've been trying to figure out something interesting to make with it and this is very inspiring. I really dig the organized chaos!
Beautiful. I'm not a big fan of chaotic patterns usually, but the low contrast and odd angles on this one really work for me.
I like to listen to your thought processes. Always interesting
Really like your problem solving narration. That's my favorite part of "unique" woodworking projects.
Always exceptional and inspirational! Thanks Frank
when Frank says "I'm not sure I can wrap my head around...." something.....it must be really complex. I can't wrap my head around what he did here and I have watched it. Great work Frank and I LOVE LOVE LOVE that huge pencil.
Fascinating as always, way beyond my skill level and even understanding, but I just love to watch!
I really like that he's always trying new ideas.
Really enjoyed the engineering behind this project. Well done.
Thanks so much, Frank. You are an inspiration!!
Frank, you have nearly perfected the art of translating creativity and high level craftsmanship into engaging entertainment. I say 'nearly perfected' not because I find fault, but simply because you often say "I think it could better". I'm not likely to attempt many of your projects myself, but I always learn something, am thoroughly entertained, and also inspired to do something creative in the workshop.
Wow Frank. How you envisage the plan and the process and then turn that into something solid always amazes me! 🧡
I love watching you work, your process is a great combination of plans and flying by the seat of your pants. 2:22 NAILED IT!!! i need one of those for sure!
Beautiful. The pattern looks like a collection of insect wings.
ha, I like it
@@frankmakes ❤thanks.
I sure hope you do more of these! It never gets old
Beautiful Frank beautiful!
Love seeing the evolution of the processes
Brilliant as always
Really interesting concept and prototype. Looking forward to more exotic species and contrast. Thanks
Looks cool. Turned out nice. Thanks for sharing
These spheres are absolutely gorgeous!
Awesome Frank...
Beautiful work as usual!
Thanks Frank. Wonderful content as always.
The woodworkers version of a blacksmith making Damascus steel! Brilliant.
Beautiful
Don't know much about woodwork, but looking at the chaotic pattern chopping boards, I think the key is to make the joints between the slices align with the chaotic pattern, so it sort of hides the fact it's composed of strips. The Chopping boards use a grid to achieve this, so for the sphere you probably need to work off a triangular grid.
So I'm picturing gluing together short triangular rods into a larger triangle (imagine a triangular version of making a cube from square dowel rods) and then cutting slices off of this to make the faces of the sphere. You also want a mix of sizes or triangles when you do this glue up to create the chaotic appearance (you might be able to mix in trapezoidal/hexagonal shapes as well?). The chaotic boards sort of work because the initial components are of varying sizes, but they all look like multiples of some smaller grid). To make sure they can all tesselate properly, they should be multiples of some smaller triangular grid size (I guess something like 20% of the sphere face length should be ok, but maybe it needs to be like 10%). Once glued you could cross cut to get multiple faces from one glue up, but they'd be identical up to rotation. Maybe you can make 4 or 5 of these glue ups and get 5 or 4 cuts to make your 20 faces to get some variety. Or you make twenty different glue ups? Maybe that's not so bad either, if you just make chunks of the same length from your triangular/trapezoidal dowels, it's a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle then.
Very cool project!!! Love how you combined tons of skills and ended with a beautiful little piece.
Impressive as always ❤
I want the Howarth chuckle as my ringtone!
I'd pay for that!
I'd pay for that!
Very cool Frank!
Wow!! Love it, nice work!!
This looks amazing! And doing the sphere on the cnc looked fun.
Another brilliant job. Even your "Let's just see prototypes" are works of art!
This bowl looks amazing. It really invokes a sense of leaves. This is a great piece for spring, summer or fall.
Love the sphere series, I think this is the best one yet and its only a test! Cant wait for your hardwood variant!
You are so calming, and it is so much fun to join you in figuring out things (:
That was a brilliant project, Frank.
Very cool, Frank. ☕️
Beautiful work as always. For an aperiodic pattern, consider making Penrose tiles. This will create your flat tiling with no repetition in pattern. The kite and the dart can be made from just two triangles with interior angles of 36-72-72 and 36-36-108 degrees respectively.
what a beautiful project
Eating breakfast and watching frank! Excellent work!
I like it. Nice job Frank.
Looks really nice.
It always blows my mind watching your videos and how good they are.
That’s really beautiful! 👏🗜
Wonderful!
beautiful! congratulation!
Has such a wounderfull and easy on the eye pattern.
What a nice sphere. I also like the tiny red pencil 😎
Amazing, you have a great deal of patience.
beautiful man, really got the process down!
I think working with contrasting woods will help you pick up on whatever it is you're looking for.
you ARE the MAN! love your stuff
Love it!
Thank you for this. Watching you use the rotary axis and realizing that ultimately it was a time saver was a great watch. Although the CNC takes a lot time to cut you can walk away and do other things. Plus you can speed it up now.
Thinking about it now. I could sand the points off and just do a single quick finishing pass on the cnc. 30 min on the cnc to save a day at the lathe.
@@frankmakes You were running it slowly. Just increased IPM would cut a pile of time off.
Next time you do this I'd enjoy getting to see the evolution of the grain pattern at each stage as you cut and reglue all the segments together.
I was thinking I needed to show that more in the video.
That turned out so very cool, the best you have done yet!
The new design is very beautiful
Really cool random pattern- great effect! Beautiful!
And, as always, love the techniques used to get there.
If I may digress: This one made me wonder about the whole concept of "the sphere," from our fascination with it to how it works in nature, etc (Maybe it was the pattern, maybe this beautiful Sunday morning, Idk....).
Thank you Frank!
That came out looking way better than I expected. So much work and saw dust to get there though. :)
Frank, you sir are a master of those spheres, love your videos, keep it up
We should call him the "sphere-man" after assuming he's gonna do another one
You've got balls, man!!
And by that I mean that Frank has now build quite a few of these wooden spheres.
Seeing you do a very clean "rough cut" of the sphere on the CNC with the rotation axis my first thought going through my mind "Frank's cheating!"
I think, if you want a truly chaotic pattern- You're going to have to involve the C&C machine and have a LOT more waste. You'd have to cut out of random pieces, and potentially try to avoid straight lines in your pattern/re-glue passes. Would that be do-able on the C&C? Perhaps cutting mirror images on opposite ends of the board and working your way centerward so you don't have straight lines? (like puzzle pieces, but less detailed, with waves/inverse waves so they fit together and can be reglued and then cut up. I think even if you did one "wave" pass where you did that, with different hardwood colors (including purple heart (pretty please!!!) only bc its my favorite, but that's just personal preference) - you would get a stunning result. "Nature abhors a straight line." :)
It would give it a very organic look, and you might even be able to do something cool like work your initials into it in the first glue in in a color, and then cut it up and you'll have even more of a conversation piece than you normally do. Either way. hats off to your talent!
This also might give way, with some of the scraps from that "more waste" I mentioned.. to doing 20 solid light colored triangles for a sphere, with an interesting shaped inlay in the center of the triangles. (I'd personally recommend either all hearts or the clubs/hearts/spades/diamonds from cards. That could be PHENOMENAL looking. I wish I had the equipment/knowledge/talent.. I'd do it myself. :) Or better yet, do it in a box format and it would make an AMAZING box for holding playing cards/poker chips.
I love it. It seems so chaotic but you can see order and patterns if you look for them
This will sound insane but once you had glued up the sphere, you needed to cut it again in to pieces, 6 cuts, 90 deg apart on the x,y,z, going through any side of the triangle. Then glue it back together and either repeat, or proceed as you did. Smaller sphere here you come…
I thought the end result was beautiful, but can see the larger triangles still. Arm chair opinion over. Back to making this movie. Mark Breakspear.
This video showed up randomly on my RUclips home page. Fascinating stuff my friend. Great skill and workmanship. Getting a little philosophical here, I see less and less interest in skilled trades among younger generations. Thanks for not only honing your skills but for putting them out there for us to admire.
I'm not sure there is less interest. If anything, channels doing woodworking, and even hand-tool only wood working are more common now than they have ever been. same with many other similar trades.
Lovely
Frank, I wrote an essay on your work for one of my classes at NYU this semester. Great stuff!
Very nice experiment! The pattern and finish give the impression of a depth effect. As if there are ribbons of wood all bound up toegether.
It’s really beautiful
My favourite so far :)
That looked amasing and bearly noticed the triangel lines... your geting so good at thows globs
Really nice. The endgrain almost looks like leaves. 🍃
Looks a lot like osb with all the end grain showing. Looks really cool.
amazing!