Fall Sketchup Challenge Entry - Honey Table

oh yah!!!!! “hive edge” rather than “live edge”.
This is awesome!! brilliant.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Oh Yeah! Good one, Damien. This another one I want to see built for real. I’m impressed.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

could sell it to the “Honeycomb” cereal people.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Very cool. How did you do the curves for the base?

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Nice job Damian, you going to build it?

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Really engaging Damien. The base is great. How thick to would the top (honeycomb part) be if you constructed it?

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

OK, I’m going to need lots of time with Sketch up to compete with these ideas.
to quote another honey lover
“think think think”

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Thanks guys.

gizmodyne: The trestles are done using the bezier curve script that you can find here I’d used the script previously in my desk design and it allows a lot more flexibility than the standard arc tool.

caliper: The top in the pic is 2” thick, I think the best way to construct it would be marquetry over a torsion box, same way Lee makes his big tops, that way you get to use actual honeycomb in the middle :)

I do like the design a lot and would love to see it built too but I’m way behind on my projects as it is so it will be a long long time coming :)

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

That’s really cool, Damian. I really like the design and would enjoy looking at this one built.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I agree, this is a nice design that begs to be built.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Beautiful work Damian. Great inspiration. I love the direction this challenge is taking. Definitely pushing folks to develop their Sketchup skills.

There are lots of great scripts out there that make difficult tasks easier. I would suggest to everyone that they take the time to puzzle through doing tasks like the legs with the native Sketchup tools before they jump to scripts however. Learning to solve those problems helps to compress the learning experience.

A few places for scripts…some free…some low cost.
http://www.smustard.com/scripts/
http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/RUBY_Library_Depot.htm
http://www.scriptspot.com/sketchup-main

Any others that folks know of?

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Great design Damian.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Interesting design…very 70’s looking! Nice model. Great entry..

-- Women love me.....trees fear me

cool !!

-- ..... art for lifes sake ... danwalters@lumberjocks.com

I especially like the design of the beeswing legs…

I can’t even imagine how long the honeycomb would take to construct!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Yeah, this wouldn’t be a weekend project for sure :) Although I don’t think it would take ‘that’ long to do the top if you used marquetry, batch cutting the tiles etc (nothing could ever take as long as that boat bed took me to make!)

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

Then you have the dark edges (surrounding the tiles) that are cut to width easy enough, but wouldn’t those have to be some kind of three way miter at every intersection? I may be looking at this all wrong…

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Each hex, complete with walnut border is a separate piece. So you could make one big long hex ‘tube’ maple in the middle with walnut sides. Take thin slices off the end with the bandsaw, drum sand to uniform thickness. Lay the field. The hexes will all tessellate.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

AHHH….I see

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA