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I have not posted a video in quite some time. I have been working on a few projects. I just haven't gotten to the end of any of them. I've made a video about what I have been working on. What follows are those projects: Kiln- rolling bed/door I've spent the spring building a solar wood drying kiln. I've gone a little overboard with it. Not so much in size but in functionality. I hope to have a video about this out soon, although I have a lot of footage and it's a long project. My rough edit was almost 2 hours. It's usually about 30 minutes. LOL Star sphere - I was working on a sphere with stars on it for the 4th of July but didn't get it done and then put it aside and I haven't gotten back to it. I would like to finish it. It's a dodecahedron sphere with a star pattern in each pentagon. I ran into trouble with the angle on the pentagons so I need to re-cut the sticks and hopefully make it work. Potter’s head - I know how much everyone loves AI so I want to do a video where I use it as a tool and not a solution. If you're a fan of MASH, the TV show from the '70s and '80s, there's an episode where Margaret and Frank have a bust of Colonel Potter carved and there's a pretty nice image of it in the show. I thought I could use that to create a model and then carve my own version of the Colonel Potter bust. Hey, that's nice! Sword handle A viewer sent me a sword! But it needs a handle so I plan to make a handle for it. I'd like to do a segmented wood turned handle on the CNC. Maybe a handle that has some aspects of a traditional pattern but is made in a different way, made with wood. Fir sphere - I've been gathering firewood all summer. One of the trees I came across had a piece that was a big branch that had been cut years ago and the tree had grown around the cut. I thought this would be interesting to wood turn the chunk itself as had the form of a sphere within it. So I turned two half spheres out of this piece and now it's drying. The plan is to let this dr
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