Crudely drawn in Google Sketchup…
I’d love to build one of these but don’t really know how to do the joinery in a way that would be sturdy enough.
I also don’t know Sketchup well enough to figure out how to get rid of the black triangles that are visible at the joints — those are not an intentional part of the design.
Comments welcome!
The Daily Baily* 
July 15, 2009 at 5:22 am |
How cool! How quickly did you get up and running with SketchUp? I’d quite like to try a few things myself…
July 16, 2009 at 2:41 am |
It’s pretty intuitive and there’s a broad, deep library of tutorials available on Google Video. You’ll master the basics (creating 2D shapes, extruding them, subdividing them, removing chunks, rotating the view, zooming in and out, etc.) in an hour, but after 20 hours (on and off over the course of a year) I still feel somewhat clumsy when it comes to doing anything precise. Definitely worth playing around with, though.
July 16, 2009 at 2:28 am |
This looks buildable to me–the key is to be sneaky with supports where the folds touch (i.e. on the left side in the middle, hidden bolts could hold the whole sandwich together, also on the right side there appears to be a spot where the folds touch) With the sharp turns, this doesn’t make me think of cursive–it makes me think of a path in PAC MAN! Yes, yes, yes! Seems like a biscuit tool is the key thing here and a good table saw.
July 16, 2009 at 2:45 am |
That’s great advice. And I like the idea of this as a Pac path rather than a scribble!
July 16, 2009 at 4:28 am |
Dang. I was hoping for “20 minutes” not “20 hours”. That puts it out of reach for the time being.
July 20, 2009 at 9:08 pm |
This is very simple to build. The joinery is basic and requires only miters and glue.
July 24, 2009 at 8:21 am |
And I know how much you love miters.