Amazing stuff Keith. I've watched all of your videos, read all of the comments, including the foreign language ones, and I am VERY IMPRESSED! Can't wait for the next chapter. BTW, I wouldn't give away the angles either. Not when you sell this Fine Art on your website at oddballgallery.com.
Nicdly done. I gave up my electric lathe about 14 years ago to use a spring pole lathe. I might consider having an electric again to do this sort of thing. Nah, I'll just get my grandson on to this. I really like the 5 gallon dust collector fitting.
Great video I just love the effect of the playwood layers. I often look for the plywood made with darck colored glue or colored glue which really make the patterns pop.
Very cool. I make origami dodecahedrons every Christmas for the tree-- never thought of using plywood instead of paper, but I might have to try this. If you're feeling insane, you could go for the 390 unit model. 12 pieces with five, and the rest are blocks of six. It would be about twice the height of the bigger one you made, so there won't be anywhere to store it afterwards. ...unless you have a spare bedroom with double doors you never use. Great vid. Thanks!
Harpo Django Rose The biggest I have done so far is 24” . With the setup I have now I can build up to 34” in diameter. I haven’t made one that big yet for the very reason you mentioned. I will definitely video the process when I do. Thanks
i dont know if you are willing but could you pass along the size of the small ball i would like to try make one. what a cool idea you have i really like it. looks so cool wow.
Hi Again Keith and thanks for the info on the plywood that's best used. After a week of pulling my hair out and getting no where on trying to figure these mitered angles I ran into another fellow turner that experienced the same. Had to share his comment he made to me since I no longer feel in the boat alone. His quote, " There are a few gaps here and there. Making one of these is tricky because you can't just check that things are square. Until final assembly, you can't be sure that it will all fit at all. The whole thing really is miter joints from hell". I keep hoping as you stated months ago that one day we may see a more detailed description on making this. Just trying to make one to say I did it. I certainly commend you on the time I know you put into this. These truly are "Miters from Hell"......ha
Incredible work. Subbed! !! Some collaborations with other 'Tubers would be outstanding. Different laminate materials would be interesting: micarta, resins, polymer clay, metal. Shou Sugi ban would be a great finish as well. FIRE !!!!
Great looking balls, and great video!. I have worked out the angles. Going to try today. I think some people are on the right track with the angles but are forgetting about the compounding affect. Keep up the good videos, I also like your massive sphere jig.
@@brittanieoconnell5570 Check out woodgears.ca. A wealth of information, not the best at fine woodwork, but one very smart man, also he has a tapered polygon mitre cut table that comes in handy.
Tom Lynx I have a long list of videos I would like to do. Some ball related , some metal fabrication. I will be making a 34” diameter sphere at some point. I still have to dedicate a significant amount of my time to my real job building cabinets and such. It would be great to be able to make videos building stuff I think is cool, but that is a difficult level to reach. Gotta start somewhere though. 👍🏼 Thanks
amazing job and v clever mathematically. Have you considered gluing up your own ply? ie custom colours like red, yellow and black veneers (Jarrah, yew & ebony?)
SelfSufficientShaun I have done my own laminations with hardwoods like walnut, cherry and maple . I have also used spectraply on a few. You can see some of those designs at oddballgallery.com
OOOOOOOOOOH if only you could make them small enough for playing pool, that would be the coolest pool ball set in the world, so unique I think would never actually play pool I would just set them up and stare.😆😆😆😆😆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
This looked oddly familiar, and i think i've finally placed it. It looks a lot like like a Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction with the circles in it, and is absolutely gorgeous.
This is incredible! I want to know if you could walk me through making one of these wood balls about the size of a bowling ball and if there's a way I could glue wood spikes all around it without the spikes falling off. I wouldn't be throwing the spike ball or anything just a good decorations
Mike Hatalski They are called Bowtie clamps. I thought of the idea when I first started making these balls. They are now made by a company called Fastcap.com I also use them for keeping my lumber wall organized. Great for bundling up narrow stock.
Very cool, I like it. One thing I did notice is when you tilt the table saw and set up to rip those strips you should be tilting the blade AWAY from the fence instead of toward it to prevent wood binding and a possible kickback. Put the fence on the other side of the blade for safety!
@John Sadler Correct, that's why you have to move the fence to the other side of the blade. I taught shop class for several years and just trying to show how to accomplish this as safely as possible.
Simple or not... I can do simple things but deliver mediocre performance. You can describe this man's work as simple, no worries, you have the right. But I also get to put his work, his brain and his skills in the 'damn good work' category. I just watched his 'small ball' video once again. It still brings smiles and admiration.
Given a structure like this, would you be able to infer the composition from the patterns it reveals? This might be interesting for planetary scientists. Or, maybeI don’t know what I’m talking about.
ODDBALL GALLERY - Keith Williams That would be awesome. On your last video I commented that "Your music and craftsmanship made me to want to build something in my shed-but I didn't have a shed." I then commented that "Your music and craftsmanship made me to want to build a shed. I completed my shed two weeks ago.
PhantomFilmAustralia I know your comment got a lot of 👍🏼That is cool. From now on If someone comments on the “crappy” music I will tell them about your shed. No one ever built a shed listening to classical music.
Добрый день отлично снято классное изделие а не подскажите какой угол на циркулярной пиле и на торцовках если я правильно понял должен получиться равнобедренный треугольник со скошенными углами внутрь .
Translation of above: "Good afternoon, great shot of a cool product and do not tell me what angle on the circular saw and on the trimmer, if I understood correctly, should be an isosceles triangle with beveled corners inward."
fun to see the results with solid wood boards of different grains instead of plywood. if you've done something like that where could I see the results?
Hi Keith, love the work you do. Noticed in your video that the plywood your using has 13 layers of veneer. Is this Marine Plywood or a type of Birch plywood. Hard to find plywood with this many layers, but I realize it's the layers that give that great look once it's sanded. I'm assuming this is not the run of the mill Home Depot stuff.
R Roe Thanks 👍🏼. It’s called Baltic birch or Russian birch. I use 3/4” B/B grade. I get it from my plywood distributor, but you can special order it at Menard’s here in the Midwest. About $75 for a 4x8 sheet. Most birch ply is only birch on the face veneers. Baltic is birch all the way through.
Where is the THIRD miter saw? :) :) I guess once you calibrated the angle on the two saws you never want to move it... so you must have a third one (or use the table saw...)
