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brcguy
10-25-2009, 11:07 PM
We cut 1600 sheets through two shopbots in 6-1/2 weeks (one table is 10 years old, the other is new).

There are over 300 unique panels. The ribs encircling the building took around 600 sheets of plywood. There were over 400 unique toolpaths cutting out approximately 125 parts to laminate together into the ribs.



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See lots more pics (as well as pics of our 34 foot tall working clock) at communityartmakers.com
gene
10-26-2009, 12:25 AM
Please post photos in the daylight
myxpykalix
10-26-2009, 12:37 AM
is this for "Burning Man"? I recall when they would take and make beautiful structures from scrap parts of wood, now it seems they make original pieces. Either way its beautiful.
bcammack
10-26-2009, 08:30 AM
Beautiful, but it makes me want to open an Indian fast-food restaurant called "CurryPasha" (as in "BurgerKing")

Sorry, it's incredibly creative and I'm quite impressed, but it's Monday morning and that's the first thought that entered my head. Self-preservation, I guess. Mind questing for humor on the least humorous morning of the week...
donchapman
10-26-2009, 11:33 AM
Congratulations on the fantastic project, Dave.

At your communityartmakers.com website I saw the photos and downloaded the temple.pdf detailed proposal you wrote for the project and am much impressed with the design, construction, and organizational skills it took to successfully pull off such a huge task.
rob_bell
10-26-2009, 08:42 PM
Congratulations, Dave. The Temple this year was truly impressive. I loved the many intricate designs carved throughout...but I'm sorry this photo proves that my temple was bigger! ;-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zomadic/3901701312/sizes/o/in/set-72157622187397321/
brcguy
11-08-2009, 04:59 PM
This was at this year's Burning Man. For a number of years the temple was built from CNC scrap from BC Bones. The ribs that surround this building came from my desire to see how far I could go with a CNC table. Not having access to truckloads of scrap, we designed all our own panels and kept the scrap to load into it for burning.

Lots more pics available at http://communityartmakers.com