Here’s a little (literally) project I made a while back. It’s all balsa, colored with markers and detailed with a 0.005mm inking pen.

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As you can see, before placing the roof & door I placed several pieces of wood inside to make a workspace & various non-descript (but useful-looking) items. It’s hard to catch with a camera all the details that are inside there, but it’s clear someone has been working. It’s very lived-in.

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Given my Adirondack chair didn’t make it past it’s first day, I thought I would record this one before anything bad happened to it as well.

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I made it over a year ago, so perhaps it’s a more lucky piece.

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I go through periods where I can’t stop thinking about trains, and this was made during one of those cycles.

I just finished today’s project; I hope you like it!

Maybe I felt a need for revenge against my craft wood after yesterday’s partial failure, but I felt like giving wood another go. After work I spent some time thinking about some nice scene or object with nice lines or a familiar look that might pose some challenge to build.

I settled on an adirondack-style beach chair.

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Today’s shot – a working gear set made from balsa. In order to make this post today, I had to give up. Maybe if I had more time I could make it happen – c’est la vie…

Well here’s the project: a planetary gear (wikipedia link) is a set of gears which rotate (or orbit) a central “sun” driving gear. The “planets” are also constrained by a ring gear.

I printed the design out, and traced the parts onto vellum.

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