It's Nearly Friday, So What's Del Making Now?

Is it one of those 2D-spacetime models (inverted) for Brian Cox?

2D 3D

A cat net to be used by the local animal control officer? LOL

Ah! A mould for a shield to be made from papier-maché?

A storage unit for spare cat-litter?

Bra reinforcement for the Girl from Devizes?

Gonna cover it in GRP and use it as a solar consecrator?

Doesn't the sun god do all the consecrating in his parts?

A floor model for checking out Einstein's Theory of Relativity and how light bends around a object having mass and gravity?

Where's Steven Hawkins, "Physicist Extraordinary", when ya need him!? LOL

Subtructure for a buckler / round bossed shield?

Authentic Mary Rose-era Archer's helmet?

Bobby Brady style volcano?

Are you really in pursuit of building a time machine?

Maybe the latest cat creation is being glued and is under the central pot, and the willow and brick on top is to add some very delicate pressure...

You've trapped an ugly, and really dangerous looking spider, and wanted to make sure it couldn't escape before the exterminator arrived....

It's the framework for a graphene water filter.

Do Tommies (or is it Squaddies?) still wear those pan shaped helmets? Are you creating one from papier-mâche?

Is it going to be a golf putting practice hole?

OOOH poor kitty, you've finally gone over the edge.

Yes folks it's a lampshade.
You can't seem to buy sensibly priced BIG modernist lampshades round where I live, so in true catly fashion I dun make one innit?
It's also doesn't cut down the light much like some of 'em do.
Great for entertaining visiting particle physicists too.
Del

If you told me you'd used old bricks to make a lampshade, I'd never have believed it!!

Did you lash the joints, or just glue 'em? (I take it they're not mortise & tenon ).

A little spot of superglue holds 'em, but even without glue it hold pretty rigid.
The cane is soaked in hot water (in the shower, and then left in a bit of old plastic tube full of hot water) before I start to weave it in and out. Once dry it's quite rigid.
As there are 17 canes in each direction that's a lot of joints to glue.

I expect new cane would be more piable, the old blind had been in a South facing window and I expect the UV had made it pretty brittle.
It's easy to cut out and broken bits and weave in new pieces softened in boiling water and then glue the join once dry.
Del

Nice to see an antique incandescent in use....

Yeah, it's in a biggish room with another light, for which I have also made a shade. There's a CFL in that one which I've just had to replace whilst the incandescent keeps on going.
Those longlife bulbs make me incandescent when they fail early.
Del

Don't get me started...

1. It looks like the beginning of a senior project that you need help with

2. a demo of space distortion by gravity

3. a form for one end of a football

4. a cover for keeping large bugs off your bread

How can a sphere have an "end"?

We'll prolly find out on 22nd Dec.

PMSL!!!