How to Wood Turn the World
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- čas přidán 2. 10. 2021
- I have been working on this woodturned globe since early last April. It is now October. The idea behind this woodturned globe was to cut out the patterns of land and ocean as a flat map into a series of 80 triangles. Then those triangles will connect and fold into a sphere. There are two problems to be solved in doing this. The first problem is figuring out how to draw the bits of land and ocean onto each triangle. I used Blender to unwrap the sphere made of triangles. This allowed me to map the world onto those triangles. The second issue is that there is an angle between each triangle that forces all of the triangles into a sphere. The first thing I did was cut out all of the triangles with the land inlaid into the ocean using the CNC. Then, I cut the angles into the sides of the triangles with some jigs that I made for the table saw. When I went to glue everything up it started out okay, but as the pieces got bigger and bigger, the discrepancies between the triangles also got bigger and bigger. Something was terribly wrong. I put the project down for about 5 months while I thought about how this was supposed to work. I decided the error I had made was looking at the surface of the sphere and taking the angle between the triangles and just dividing this in half to get the angle of the sides of the triangles. This is not quite correct. I modeled a sphere using the actual thickness of the triangles and actually measured what the sides of the triangles would be in that sphere. This gave a subtle difference in the angles. I cut out an entire second batch of triangles and remade a new sphere and this time it worked. Once I had the sphere built, I could wood turn it on the lathe to get a smooth surface. It turned out beautiful.
How to Woodturn a Sphere: • How to Woodturn a Sphere
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The prep work and tenacity is truly inspiring.
Frank is the most patient man I've ever seen
People complained about Frank's last video being too short, so he comes at us with this. I love it.
Frank: Are you not entertained?
Those 43 minutes BLASTED by; Frank really got me captivated the whole time!! Loved it.
ha ha take that
Such an impressive project, hell, the prototype bowl on its own was worthy of a video!
Fantastic work! To slightly mess it up, then instead of just carrying on and trying to fix it, you built ANOTHER TWO globes!!I wouldn't have the patience.
Frank needs to join the Great Guitar Build Off!
Burn it! Love your guitars man.
At 37:00 “and I can take the tape off” and Frank proceeds to make another breath taking animation after spending a zillion hours trying and retrying techniques for the project. Absolutely awesome and infinite patience! WOW Frank!
Suddenly his being from Hawaii makes total sense
Now that you’ve done one land mass with “local” wood……… feels like you should have your global followers send you a sample of a local wood for each place and make another one!
Also wanted to say the idea of a “round cutting board” sounds super abstract and I love it
That would be an actual nightmare to put together!
Like a 3D/global representation of the US map Xyla Foxlin did
I thought about this.
@@frankmakes would be quite an undertaking! Fantastic project/video. Loved it!
An exhaustive display and execution of artistry, artistic perception, applied geometry, creativity, genius, spatial reasoning, planning, perseverance, problem solving, , patience, , persnicketiness, and noggin scratching. Oh and videography that is so smooth and well choreographed that it lifts the project to another level………
Perfect comment
Well said Sir👍
Boy, you sure have a way with words for a grumpy Neanderthal. Cheers!
@@Pedroisanickname muchas gracias
Exhaustive...I started daydreaming about 20 minutes in. His projects are always crazy complicated, but when he starts explaining how he fixed what he screwed up, he gets to a complication level my brain doesn't want to deal with.
The editing alone in this video is asounding and then the globe...
Not many people will apreciate the amount of work gone in to this.
Absoultly enjoyable to watch from begining to end, thanks Frank
Frank, absolutely amazing. You stretch the limits on process, engineering, creativity, and execution. There's no one covering as many dimensions as you. Thank you for making content!
What a video. I like the pine bowl test piece. That would make for a good single 2x4 project.
So great to see my favorite makers watching each other! 😍😍
Yes indeed
small world
Hmmm...
10% crazy idea +
20% research +
40% working out the details +
25% using the best workshop +
5% patience =
100% awesome project... Great project Frank!
You forgot 2% tomatoes
Frank, your craftsmanship transcends that of woodworking. It dives into engineering, mathematics, and science to create something beyond art. You’re in a league of your own!
I think this is the best thing I've watched on CZcams this year. It's not only your planning and carpentry skills that make it, but the cinematography and gentle narration too. The animated tape peeling was a nice touch. Bravo, superb work.
Incredible! This is one of those things that sounds hard and then turns out to be even more complicated than you could imagine. You’re a master!
Would a master have misalignments all over the place? Nope.
@@X22GJP
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@@X22GJP I mean, objectively speaking, your comment is not based on reality. I cannot back it up with polls or actual evidence, but I'm pretty sure 99% of master woodworkers would disagree with your conclusion, and most would probably consider your comment weird. The top 10 woodworkers in the world, if such a thing could be determined, still learn stuff all the time and make mistakes all the time. Mapping out the process to make complicated pieces in your head, then manifesting it into reality, then doing that for decades in a row without fault, is just not an attainable goal. That doesn't exist.
The stop-motion of the tape being removed was an awesome little addition that didn't need to be there, but your attention to little details adds so much to your already amazing builds.
I was going to post the same, including the bit where it wasn't at all necessary, but such a nice touch. Many times in life it IS the little things that elevate at production.
Admirable patience and perserverence. Love how tv show logo evolved with the project. Thank you Frank for quality entertainment.
Frank…that was a very impressive display of patience, perseverance, math, and skill! Thank you for sharing the making of this project. It will look beautiful in your home - I am sure - and a wonderful keepsake for your kids.
To those unaware, it's clearly not obvious just how much went into this project at first glance. *Well done Frank.*
This must have taken an enormous effort to produce. Just the build alone is a mammoth effort. Then the recording, editing, etc. Just mind boggling!
Thanks. I just looked and the project file on my computer is 1.24 tb
This thing needs a proper globe stand. A masterpiece should be presented masterfully.
A turtle holding the earth, if anyone gets my reference :)
Yes, but the Earth is Flat.
@@godsbeautifulflatearth only if your iq is low enough.
@@godsbeautifulflatearth We don't do that here.
_Making A Globe Stand_ • Oct 24, 2021 • frank howarth
Amazing project! Truly an inspiration for those who may think a project is too complicated or give up when they hit a bump like you did when you realized your angles were wrong. Thank you for making it.
This is not just wood turning at its best, but story telling, grit and presentation skills. You are truly awesome.
He is incredible!! I checked his channel out because of the earth project and was blown away by the advanced work he does!! And his work shop❣️❣️❣️❣️AMAZING!!!
I want to go back and count the steps :-) Glad to see someone else checking and rechecking and re-rechecking along the way. Thanks for taking us along on this ride.
Frank, your tenacity is amazing! Congrats on finally getting it done! Beautiful job!
The word "Genius" is invented for a dedicated Artist like you. This is one of the best project in woodturning I have ever seen. Apart from the project you also did a full justice with the video making. You are a REAL ARTIST. Thank you for sharing your project.
My brain can’t handle the complexity of the compound angles. Truly amazing work. You keep surprising me with your skills, camera work and story telling. Thanks!
I am in awe of how your mind works. Not just your actual skill - which is awesome, but the ability to break down mechanical items into smaller parts and methods is super impressive. Great job!
This is astounding and inspirational. I’ve struggled so many times with completing a project because of the anxiety of failure. I admire how you pushed through it and ended up with a masterpiece.
I was literally clapping by my own when the final globe came together. Man, what a project and what a video. Truly inspiring.
I feel like it's been a real privilege to be part of this extraordinary process via CZcams. Is there anyone else on the entire planet that could have figured this out and made it work? My guess is that the answer would be a definite NO!
The amount of time you spent planning and actually making this project is astounding. You have so much patience, especially to rework the entire design when pieces didn't fit together! The end result is absolutely worth it.
Really, really, REALLY good work, Frank! This was an amazing project to watch unfold, and your filming and editing were, as always, top notch!
I really appreciate the amount of work you put in all of your video’s. The math behind each project, the animations, the video editing, the humor, the voice over and of course your incredible woodworking skills. The result is amazing, as always.
This project breaks my head into two! Incredible conceptualization and execution. Props
Always a pleasure watching your videos, Frank!
Now, that was (easily) as good as an episode of "As The World Turns".
Thanks for validating my problem solving technique, which up until now, I thought was only mine and probably slightly flawed like most of my other theories. That of course is when things start to go south, “walk away, think it through before you just repeat or compound the error of your ways”. I’ve never done it for 5 months (lol) but I have always finally achieved desired results with it. Your presentation of this enormous project is admirable in that you minimized transferring the tediousness and frustration, you were undoubtedly feeling, to your audience. It remained captivating and impressive throughout. Thanks for a most enjoyable video.
This is way better than anything you can watch on TV in 2023 honestly... What a great project, and a wonderful video! The combination of craftsmanship/skill that goes into the globe and then the artistic touch on the editing and animations, wow! You must have a thousand hours into this!
You really need to make a standard globe stand for this one out of wood. You know those 23.5° ones where you can turn the globe in...like the illuminated plastic ones.
With Brass inlays and such!
I really do want to make a stand for it
@@frankmakes You should make a stand sort of like the small cup you use for the spheres on the lathe, but with two motorized wheels that slowly turns the globe, with different modes and speeds!
The Earth is not a globe.
Might as well since this wasn't complicated enough...
_Making A Globe Stand_ • Oct 24, 2021 • frank howarth
Truly a remarkable achievement, Frank. (Great editing, too ) Thank you for showing your mistakes and having to take some time away from the project. As a rank novice woodworker, I thought that was just something I did! Keep up the amazing work, very inspiring.
Wow! So many twists and ‘turns’ in this video! Great job Frank! I love the humor and stop motion you add to your videos.
There are no words to express you talent and skill. This is probably one of, if not the, coolest woodworking videos I have ever watched. Thank you for sharing your skill!
This video is amazing! Congrats Frank!!
Just incredible - or in German: "Hammer!".
Thanks for indicating all your issues, this makes your contribution outstanding.
You never fail to impress! The fact that you went through with it after so many setbacks is inspiring. Good to see from you again!
Frank, your determination and committment to excellence are absolutely amazing - as are your skills. Thank you for making this video and sharing your trials and tribulations with us. Inspiring!
Frank, this was insane. I must admit I was a bit reluctant to watch a 43 minute video, but it TURNED (lol) out to be maybe the best CZcams video I’ve ever seen. I’m an editor myself, so I know the insane amount of work you put on top of the project itself, and I absolutely love that you take the time to show and explain the mistakes. I love the detours, the road trip, the tomatoes and the general procrastination. That’s real life! And I love that you use Blender:) and I love the end result of course. Well done Frank!
Thanks Frank - You seem to have made Hawaï quite BIG !!
Not just an amazing project, but one of the best woodworking videos I've ever seen. I don't really have any words. Loved it!
You just entertained thousands of ppl for 40+mins, that’s awesome. I know this is so much work, it’s nice to see talent be rewarded.
I feel like this project would be much easier if you just accepted the world is flat 😀. Super cool project!
LOL! Awesome comment!
BOOOO 🤣🤣🤣
But could you imagine carving all those elephants that the world sits on and then the turtle that the elephants stand on.
Absolute Genius, well done Frank!!!
Your patience for detail is on another level. Amazing.
Incredible work. I love how you show your mistakes and how you overcome them. That’s so much of woodworking and makes the final product so much more impressive!
Seeing the inside of Woodcrafters makes me nostalgic. I haven't been inside there since the covid started. It's my favorite store
Taking the fine sanding dust and mixing with clear lacquer makes a much better filler. It will dry faster and will take stains better than using glue. This is the technique we use when filling cracks in hardwood floors. We end up with a much better final product when staining the floor
I will experiment with this.
@@frankmakes I'd love to see that as a video.
As one of maybe the few people who's also CNC'd a dymaxion globe in multiple coloured woods (I reckon it took ~400 hours) I salute you sir. I actually had to stop the video and take a breather when you started again from scratch nearly half way through. I did the same and it cut too close. Oh man, the hand labelling in front of the monitor in the shop, that feeling, so many hours of that. Magnificent work. Mine was wedding present for a friend who I owed big time. Worth it? Probably. It's not over for me, I'll probably make another before I die because the vectors were too much work to only use once, but still too soon.
This was really cool watching you go through the process and explain how you did it rather than a quick timelapse with no talking at all. It stinks that you had to remake the existing earth triangles but sometimes stuff like that has to happen and at least you got a lot of knowledge from the mess up!! Really great work!
I like the way the triangles look in the bowl. Almost an optical illusion.
The wooden earth is so beautiful. Excellent work my brother!
And it all looks so simple when it’s done
Wow! The whole package! Intelligence, high artistic creativity, out-of-this-world shop and tools, computer/CAD skills,.......u are the real thing dude!
I watch these types of videos to unwind but I found myself almost in tears at how calmly you said “so I think modeling it up and actually figuring out what is going on is the way to do it.” Idk why it just cracked me up.
Frank is proof that the best skill a woodworker can have is patience.
You should make a giant golf ball with the dimple pattern and a custom “stamped” logo, number, and alignment line.
I like it... Fore!!
I’d buy one!
@@JJ-oq7tm Yep, I would too!
So many useful insights from a master of the craft. Even the things that went wrong were really useful to learn. And I admire your fortitude for being willing to go back to square one after the initial problems.
I have followed your work for many years and you never disappoint. What a master in your craft.
Thank you Frank for producing this piece and video. When I started watching yours and Mathias Wandel's pages years ago I thought combining a geodesic construction with lathe turning would make an excellent project. Now it has finally come to fruition! The shape you've constructed is called a 2-frequency tessellated icosahedron. The angle with which you had trouble can be referred to as the "dihedral angle."
awesome! I knew I would get some answers about the geometry in the comments.
Absolutely fantastic project Frank and as always, a delight to watch! I really appreciate your tenacity in sticking with it, even though you had to do it more than once.
Thank you for the name VeloLEV, I'm interested in polyhedra and knew it was a type of geodesic sphere, but couldn't put my finger on the name of it. I pictured it as a icosidodecahedron, with capped pentagonal faces, but the name you give it is far more eloquent!
Wikipedia has an interesting page of geodesic polyhedra: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_polyhedron although names this as an augmentation of an icosidodecahedron and doesn't project it onto a sphere, with no reference of the dihedral angles either. I wonder what the dihedral angles are? I wouldn't know where to begin in calculating them.
...further to my previous comment, I've done a little more reading and it seems as though it can be called a Pentakis Icosidodecahedron: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentakis_icosidodecahedron
@@edwardholmes91 it is fascinating isn't it? One day in my future I plan to construct a house with geodesics!
Man, awesome skills, as digital as analogical, and above all a lot of resilience. One coment about, when you did the mapping of triangles, I think that if instead of flattening each triangle you made a projection of the curved surface on the triangle, the lines would have fit better, since you would be fitting the surface of the sphere, instead of the surface of the geodesic before turning. But again. Awessssome work man! congratulations!
Frank I have been watching your channel since your Segmented Walnut Bowl and I think this is the coolest and most beautiful object you have made yet! Even your jig for the triangles was beautifully engineered and overbuilt and I just love it! Thank you for making all of these projects for us to watch. You're rad and your projects are rad.
I've watched A LOT of woodturning/woodmaking videos, and this is one of the best out there. Interesting, entertaining, beautiful work.
It looks gorgeous! And thank you for including New Zealand, so many maps don't :D
I was thinking the same about Tasmania.
I'm looking for the UK, but I think it may be joined to Europe? As always though, truly fascinating project and wonderful result!
Seems to have put the Interislander out of business though… 😁
Yeah, I always look for the Land of the Long White Cloud in globe projects too! Kia ora
r/mapswithoutnz
That is awesome Frank! I think we all forget just how long it can take to complete a project like this.
Frank, as a 27 year old who has been watching your videos for 3 years, I got to say, you made me respect woodworkers. My hats off to you for skills sir. This hobby seems to be a very relaxing, peaceful way to spend life. I sure wish to be like you when I grow older. Thank you for another great video! 🙏
Excellent video, Frank! I love that even with the video duration and the amount of real time this took you still made time to stop motion the tape peeling off. It's this level of detail and production that keeps me coming back!
WOW, what an amazing project and the finished globe looks so good. You did resin in the past, what if the inserts are resin and you sand the backing away so the resin in clear and you could put a light inside. Again amazing and I loved watching this all comfy on a gray Sunday afternoon in the uk.
When even the End credits clamp gets impatient! Wow what an amazing work Frank! Worth all the length of the video.
I've a little Drinking game for you. Drink a Shot, everytime Frank says _"Triangle"..._
I had the same thought. But I think I'd be on the floor by the 5 minute mark. Lol
Wait, I think I'm about three shots behind already. “Trinagle!” “Tringle!” “Trig…” Nvm…
I guarantee that you are the only person to ever do that. You are a woodworking genius. I'm in awe of how you figured that all out. Wow, Wow, Wow. I bow to the master👌
No words. Simply the most amazing feat of design,engineering and woodworking I've ever seen.
I've had the idea in my head to do a large model of the moon with exaggerated topographic detail with a similar method (obviously no lathe smoothing). the concept is to make each triangle as large as it can fit on a reasonable cnc bed and then have a giant sphere you can bring as a set of panels to a festival or something, and just have a weird sphere larger than a person. but i haven't made much progress on this because of (gestures widely at the world)
You'd almost add dowels to align the pieces, at least within the hemispheres, and maybe a few between them. If you're modelling, you might as well go all the way.
"And Now the World Has Been Turned". This is way above my level of understanding, but still fascinating to watch. I love it!
That was fun! Thanks for sharing Frank. Love seeing computers and CNC work mixed with traditional trades and techniques.
This looks SO incredibly complicated. Do you think this was the most difficult thing you’ve done? Curious as to your perspective.
Thanks,
Joe
it's definitely up there. with a crazy glue up jig I think this project would win.
@@frankmakes As an Australian who went to college in America its almost unbelievable that you know there is a country called New Zealand let alone where it is. Don't Worry about losing the South Island its best left as a secret. Its actually some of the most magnificent country in the world, which hurts to say as an Australian. But then I saw you group all of Hawaii into 1 block, so the fact you even remembered New Zealand exists is a plus.
I also noticed you included Tasmania and can tell you that 541,965 Taswegians (as we like to call them) just fell in love with you. They feel a little left out at times. Every so often some moron will leave them off a logo and they go nuts. So if you ever need to flee and go somewhere just take this globe to Hobart and show them that you included them. They'll grant you anything within reason.
If you do, do the map with local timbers to represent the country Red Gum would probably be the most iconic Australian wood. Its a red hardwood. But we have some others like Huon Pine (which isn't actually a pine), Norfolk Pine which is native to Norfolk Island, Jarrah from Western Australia which is a staggeringly beautiful deep red hard wood. There's also our dinosaur tree the Wollemi Pine (pronounced wool-am-eye).
You need to be very careful sourcing any native Australian timber. I'm not certain what specific laws could be easily breached. These days we are very sensitive about illegal exporting of native plants and animals. So even if someone innocently sent you a block of wood its potentially serious. If want some just ask one of the agents down here. They might even be able to just send you an off cut.
The Kiwis (as we call New Zealanders) have some amazing natural timbers too. But you need to ask one of them about those.
Overall - totally awesome project.
Did you look at a geodesic pattern for the triangles? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome
In a geodesic pattern ALL the triangles are identical and from hexagonal blocks.
@@tonywilson4713 Of course, anyone who has visited New Zealand will agree with you!
@@ApexWoodworks It just sucks anytime an Australian has to admit it.
Its like Americans admitting Canada has something better.
Or the Germans admitting somebody engineered something better than they can.
Or the French admitting anyone else can cook.
Or the Italians admitting anyone else can cook.
@@tonywilson4713 actually the higher the frequency (how many times you divide the sphere) the more different lengths each side becomes. 🙃
I think it would be cool to make some sort of wood "rainbow" with that bowl pattern. By wood rainbow, it would be many different types of wood and alternate between many different colors of woods.
I lived the journey of this project. All the set backs are insights into your thinking really added to it. As always the end project is beautiful!
Sir, you have the patience of a Saint and skill beyond measure. That was a pleasure to watch, thank you.
Something I’m sadly learning is that you usually can’t just “make” something and be done with it, like this project you sometimes need to build it three times. It really bothers me but there’s no easy way around it.
By the way great video Frank
What bothers me is that he presents it all and it's too much for my brain to handle, I started daydreaming 20 minutes in as he went from crazy complicated to fixing and re-engineering crazy complicated.
Yup, certainly a learning process. Its almost a shame to have learned so much, and made all the jigs and cut designs and only make one. I guess he'll apply the knowledge gained to something else though.
Looks very good and "easy" to do ;) Thx for video!
Freaking incredibly awesome, The wood Force is very strong with you Master Frank, may you live long and prosper!!!!
You have to be a genius. This was way beyond 99.9% of us woodturners ability. AMAZING. Thank you for doing and showing this process.
Maybe it’s time you bought a 3D printer to print these jigs out. You could have subtracted a triangle from a shape and then printed the end result out for the perfect jig! You could also print some pretty cool gluing jigs to help assemble the sphere. I use this all the time for things I make.
hmmm... I like this.
You could print the whole globe! Lol
My compliments to your skills and artistry, a beautiful result. What map projection did you use? Are the continent sizes accurate, or is it a Gerardus Mercator projection?
Really incredible Frank. I love how you document every step of the process. This is the content that keeps me addicted to CZcams!
This was delightful! Your commentary is informative and chill, your productionvalue is great and the whole vibe of the video is very comfy. Wonderful project too and great execution!
It's just that easy!
This project will be a piece of cake for flat Earthers
Thanks to CZcams for making able to speed up, I made it through the whole thing. It was amazing! Congratulations!
That wooden globe is beautiful.
Your perseverance on this one is inspiring! The Globe “turned” out amazing!
This project was amazing!!!! I watched with my two daughters (8 and 10 y old). We absolutely loved!!!! That is so cool!!
Absolutely incredible as always Frank. Thank you for taking the time to share.
An incredible project. Once again perfectly implemented. It's fun to see how you implement the projects and do not hide the failures. Keep up the good work, I love your videos.
Priceless... You do that once in a lifetime, and you can say your life has been fullfilled. I love working with wood, but I'm far from having this talent. Bravo Monsieur.