Want to see a guy make a big ball out of plywood? Oddball Gallery presents this 19" Geodesic sphere/Geodesic dome made with baltic birch plywood. Music license Premium beat #1564405 Breakout by GG Riggs
The music and the craftsmanship makes me want to build something in my shed. I don't have a shed. The music and the craftsmanship makes me want to build a shed.
I'm a married man and have been working in woodwork for the last 70 years and this is by far the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life bar none, including my wife on her wedding day
C.N.C machinery,, First in the precision metal WORK Engineering then The Machinery was made to cut wood to the same tolerances.. C.N.C machinery makes a master of a Student!!!!
As a professional cabinet/furniture builder I can get stuck in the same thinking day in and day out and focus on efficiency and making money. This was fun to watch. When someone works for years at woodworking you realize most things work from the same ideas and experience but the “out of the box” thinking here in this video is impressive and fun to watch. Great idea and great skill to make it all come together. I really enjoyed watching this.
Mark Spears I know what you mean. I have been in the custom woodworking biz for 25 years. I was drowning in a sea of raised panel doors and crown moulding. I had to find a way to separate my love of woodworking from the day to day “get it done” business side. It feels good to build things with no real purpose once in a while.
This is such a beautiful work of art. The hours taken to produce this is extraordinary, I played it on .25 speed , just so I could see how you did it, but even that wasn’t slow enough. I applaud you, it’s just magnificent the detail and the intricacy of it all. Kudos.xx
@@ODDBALLGALLERYKeithWilliams Quite welcome! My grandfather worked in wood - he was a pattern-maker for Studebaker in South Bend. He died a few years before I was born, so I never got to meet him. But my dad seems to have picked up several of the skills; he'd occasionally build something simple of wood, although it had nothing to do with his chosen career (meteorology; numerical weather prediction). So I appreciate a well-executed woodworking project. I'm also a mathematician/physicist (retired), so I appreciate the geometric beauty of this design. Fred
ffggddss My dad was a machinist at Caterpillar tractor. I learned about precision measuring from him . I spent a lot of time working with both metal and wood growing up. I didn’t gain a real appreciation for math until I was older. I use a combination of simple math and trial and error most of the time.
I never looked at the dislikes until I read the comments. How could anybody dislike a accurate and interesting and fantastically executed work of technical art? Anybody that dis likes this has no idea what a cool project it really is. Is their skill level and understanding so low that it doesn't register? I am going to guess anybody that dis likes it probably has trouble getting toilet paper to ball up.
I know nothing about woodworking so when the patterns started to appear while you were sanding the outside of the ball...completely amazed me! I assumed they were added manually to make it look more interesting. Beautiful project! Thanks for uploading.
Dude, kinda genius! Your shop equipment looks pro asf and well maintained. And anyone else get a small amount of anxiety when baby ball was rolling so close to the edge? Oh and pre-sanding the ball looks like a deathstar.
I'm not a carpenter, but I made one of these balls last week, about 8" dia. from 60 triangles. It came up really well for a first try. No gaps or cracks. But I didn't have one of the fancy woodturning setups for making it round. I used a metal cone made from a small chimney flue cap, added a holesaw arbor and put a disc of 40 grit circular sandpaper inside the cone of the flue cap, with velcro dots. By just lifting and turning the ball under the spinning cone on a power drill until there were no more flat spots, it ensured that the ball came up perfectly round. A little more hand-sanding with the cone using 220 grit paper really smoothed it out. 3 coats of lacquer later and it looks like a shiny bowling ball with a magical pattern.
@@ODDBALLGALLERYKeithWilliams Yes that's right Keith. the 60 triangles made 12 pentagons. Credit where it's due. My wife saw your excellent video and 'persuaded' me to get involved in making one. The first challenge was to cut the ply into strips on the correct angle. A few years ago I found an el-cheapo Ryobi table saw (with a bent leg) in an industrial skip. So I repaired it for this job, powered it up and was able to cut 50mm wide strips with the 9º angle on both sides. Then with the correct secondary angles in a basic drop saw and a backstop, I could cut the triangles by flipping the strip with every alternate cut. Once I worked that out it went really fast to get the 60pcs. The pentagons all went together really tight on the first attempt. I just put the third coat of clear urethane on the ball and it has taken on an excellent golden colour. It is about bowling ball size. A pity I can't post pictures here. BTW We're a few km East of Melbourne. (Australia, not Florida) Cheers.
A Galah I’m impressed that you got it to work on the first try. I made quite a few before I even had one worth showing. I’d like to see it , send me a pic to oddballgallery@gmail.com
The Viking Woodsmith I did ✋🏼...it was supposed to stop when it hit the big ball. What you don’t see is me running around the workbench ready to make the diving catch.
Talk about someone with some free time on their hands, and being a old school machinist (Prior to CNC machines) Some of the tools I did not know existed. Great video.
My dad was a machinist at Caterpillar for 40 years. He taught me a lot about precision measuring and working with metal. I built the miter saw fence and sanding lathe. Most of the tools I used in my sphere sanding jig video I got from him.
Incredible art and skill. The vision to make this and the method is exceptional. Those who press thumbs down...really? Is it because you don't have the tools ODDBALL GALLERY does? Or the ability and ingenuity? Still.... .02 percent versus 29k.... guess who wins! ODDBALL GALLERY! Thank you for an excellent video on a wonderful piece of woodwork! Respect!
pookie one Why weren't you documented? You can't blame the police for this when you were in our country illegally AND doing illegal stuff to boot. That's just asking for it.
1) The music is awesome. 2) You're a clamp champ. 3) This is probably the most far out, amazing thing I've ever seen. I never would have guessed that the designs were just the plywood colors. That is awesome!
This is the easy way. But I once saw an old Japanese guy who took 300lbs of old lint and used toilet tissue and smooshed it into a big ball that over a period of ten years he then polished, kneaded, squished, and polished some more, into a ball of pure mirror glass. By the end of it, he had no fingers left. Amazing stuff. True craftsmanship. I heard he also kept little creatures called Gremlins.
25 seconds in you show the angel. ‘‘This is the angel of the table saw too. You have to flip the plywood over each time. To get the most out of one sheet of plywood and to get 12 you must have cut them at 3 7/8 the thickness of your blade. And I am a Cave man. You are good Carpenter.
No step by step exactly how to do it. Lazy people today can't work shite out by themselves. Lol. Little bit of geometry would get you there man. I swear. Lol
I WOULD KILL TO EVEN BE ABLE TO JUST HAVE ACCESS TO USE THE EQUIPMENT IN YOUR WORKSHOP MAN!!!! OMGGG , this is literally my dream workshop haha.. I love the ball too that is an awesome idea with the ply wood it really looks cool once you start sanding it
Mr. Mike Moore Thanks Mike, I have had a cabinet shop for 25+ years , so a lot of the tools I already had available. I built the ball lathe from surplus parts over about a year.
This is exactly how they built the Death Star Good work, I make stuff like this out of paper when I'm bored at work and I can tell you, when I finish the ball I have all kinds of gaps, I bet a very slight difference in that saw angle at the beginning would throw the whole thing off
Amazing! I love birch ply. People often talk about how to hide the edges with ply, but they are the best thing about it, in my opinion (providing it's birch or similar). I've just made my own kitchen worktops with 30mm BP and Formica, specifically so I could leave the edge exposed. They look great. I've also got a coffee table made by my Dad in the 1960s that uses 18mm and white Formica, which was the inspiration partly. Anyway, your stuff is taking that edge-love to another level :)
Very cool! I have made a few, but they had equal bevel angles on all sides of each face - resulting in intersection circles that are centered on each face. I like the off center circles and the patterns on yours resulting from the symmetry.
Buckyballs rule - amazing. When the little ball rolled across the table to the very edge and then back again it reminded me of the playful ball in the classic Pixar anglepoise lamp animation - as if it had a life of its own.
I gotta say that yes, the ball is interestingly unique ,and I do like it,but I also think that it needs to be stained more of a medium stain to show more of the graining. Glad it was clear coated to protect it.
@@ODDBALLGALLERYKeithWilliams 40 hours or 40 minutes, either way, it's impressive! I would never be able to do this even if you gave me a year! You have a new subscriber, my friend.
263 dislikes.... Really? Explain how such amazing skill and imagination in only 3 minutes makes you people butt hurt. Do better... Betting the farm that you can't. This dude has mad skills and the forethought to keep the whole thing short and interesting. So again, do better if you can. (Not holding my breath.)
@@privacyvalued4134 I watched this at 3am. I had the volume turned off so I wouldn't wake up the house. I had to watch it again with the volume up. I'm good either way considering I'm sort of a Metallica fan. The music is fine..
I was blown away how it all fit together so precisely. The last fitting pieces had no gaps or other compounded gap errors. The man knows his wood and tools.
Tim Spychalla it could be the use of all the power tools, there's a lot of wood workers that prefer to do things by hand. apparently there's about 470 here. beautiful project indeed, but imagine how much more Talent it would take to make it by hand. not talking s***, it's a badass piece. thumbs up for me for sure LOL
There is another masterpice by the name Sauron's Eye on you tube made by the 22 y.old wood turner who has surpassed many with his unbelievable genius. His name is Olivier Gomis.
Dude! Video liked, I subbed and damn, that is so cool, my hat is not only off, but thrown several feet away from my current location! That is probably one of the coolest, most ambitious and unique projects I have ever seen. Looking forward to more!
Mad Skills Keith!!! And fantastic job on the video editing too. Many don't truly understand how much time goes into recording and editing the video of a project like this, hats off to you Sir. Thank you for sharing.
