Americas

WOW!!!! Amazing craftsmanship and dedication to a vision! Fan-freaking-tastic!!!!!

Great idea......and you carried it out exceptionally well......

ooc

Thanks for the compliments, Glenn and Odie. It was a lot of fun to build with a few moments of head scratching. Hope I get to build another one soon.

Steve

Wow! Talk about head scratching...I can't imagine the time involved in putting this together. Truly amazing.

I have seen a few of these over the years, but this is definitely one of the better looking ones. There is one the Chicago that I came across that is about 36" diameter, but appears to be made from veneer. This one is much nicer. Great job.

Thank you. It was 7 months start to finish, but I didn't work on it every day. Sometimes weeks would go by without working on it. I only had part of it planned out that went fast and smooth, then other parts took more thought and figuring out a way how to do some things. A couple of times I started over while making the continents. I could probably do it again in two months or so.

I have also seen a few other handmade wooden globes on the internet over the past several years, but I didn't copy anybody else's methods - no veneer here. The next one I make will be bigger.

Thanks for the comments.

Steve

Amazing!

Turning of the Week, 07/30/12
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Wow! Thank you! I have got some other things I need to finish first, but I am wanting to build another globe with a few changes from this one.

Steven-

Congratulations on "Turning of the Week." Outstanding.

Gary

Thanks Gary.