I messed around with geodetic domes backin the 60's and found that the angles have to be exact. When you said that the blade angle was close enough I new you were in trouble. You are the best. Thanks for the all the interesting and educational videos.
Awesome work! You mentioned about your dislike of tape as clamps. Here's a suggestion: Use the masking tape to line up the pieces (just like you did), then use a 1/2" thick rubber band that they use to hold broccoli stalks in a bundle. Secure the rubber band around the outside of the 5 piece pentagon. The pressure will be exerted inwards which will hold the pieces in place until the glue dries.However, this will only work for the pentagon pieces. Once you assemble the 12 pentagons into the sphere, use large rubber bands (cut from a car tire inner tube). The pressure will keep everything nice and tight but it will also allow last minute adjustments until the glue sets.Excellent video and excellent TH-cam channel. I am now inspired to try to build my own.
Matthias Wandel very impressed with your work. Being a high school student, this woodwork has really caught my attention... thanks again for being a reliable uploader. peace!
This would be the start of an awesome series of lamps. Now I just need to figure out a jig to drill out most of the material from the center each triangle.thank you sir for keeping me busy for the next week.
Dude, you do some of the coolest stuff. I learn engineering just by watching your videos - the use of tape on those glue ups to provide compression through use of tension was just awesome.
I would be very impressed if you scaled it up to make a roof for a gazebo . This video is impressive by itself. You make it look easier than it is. My wife buys metal gazebos from Target and the never survive the winter winds. Love watching you work it a true pleasure.
Great to see you make that thing, I've build a similar one at the art academy three years ago and still use it for storing small tools and some other special items :) Built my own laser cutter some time ago and now can cut thin veneers with it, so I make these shapes out of very thin wood which makes it easy because I don't have to use miters for the thickness :)
Always fascinated by your work, Just think in 10 years I'll be watching your next video where you have figured out how to make each piece using dovetails
Mathias I'm a Big fan of you. I always watch your videos. I just want to point out that the Sawstop would only stop if you were touching the metal. I don't think you were so there wouldn't be a reason to swear.
man I needed this video like a month ago! I built a 1080 piece chair out of trapezoids fashioned to form equilateral triangles but I couldn't get the miters right to do my original design, props to you :D
Nice. I can imagine those miters are very hard to get right - once I made a world map in the shape of dodecahedron and it required quite a long time to fine tune the cuts. But the result can only be beautiful.
Mathias, Merry Christmas to you and your family . This video inspired me to make three way speakers, 3 domes on a base. I used a ring with sand paper on the inside to sand and shape the domes round. These are floor standing speakers using JBL studio master components and crossovers . I'm planning a set of dome speakers made out of limestone, they will look like snowmen. I wanted to thank you for all you expertise and videos , especially this one. My wife extended you this complement: "His ,(meaning you , as I watch your videos), skill and craftsmanship makes you,( you is me her husband), look like an idiot". It's true. Still I love her after all these years. Thanks again.
frank howarth I'm not so fond of the "sculpture as a a birdhouse". I guess a birdhouse is the new "ashtray" that kids always made from clay, for lack of a better "use" for it. I'd be more concerned about weather resistance for a birdhouse.
Matthias Wandel What better "use" is there for this piece you made? because for me a birdhouse it's just as good as any other use you could give it. If birdhouses have become dull proyects, what better way to put some style and expertee on them than making something like this into one? I do see your point on this being somewhat difficult to make waterproof, but I'm sure there is a way that this could be done, and i would love to hang this piece on a tree and see a bird flying out of it. That or play D&D....
I have been a follower on my old account since I first created it in 2010 and I just want to say you are one of my favorite youtubers so keep making the videos thanks
The mathematical shapes are one of the things I would love to make in the shop, but the angles worry me. I will attempt again when I have a hole in projects. Awesome work Matthias!
I always like your work and your working style.its very nice and very professional and also its very helpful for those peoples who want to do something different and according to the natural requirements. Thank you sir Mushtaq mughal
I only knew that name through Marc Maron's podcast, although he pronounces "B" differently ;) Thanks to your comment I can now put a thing to the name, so, thanks for that!
Fuller once announced that he could cover New York City with a dome, for the cost of snow removal for ten years. He said the year round temp would be in the 70s F, so no heating or cooling costs for the residents. He was still on campus when I attended SIU-C, but I never thought to go meet him.
Thanks for sharing this Matthias! As you know Dodecahedron is one of the sacred geometries. And you may also know that, if you were to build one big enough for you to sit inside comfortably, you will be *inside a sacred space* but did you know that if you were to meditate inside this 'Sacred space' , something strange, something magical begins to happen!
The whole time I was watching, I was wondering if he was going to do the "stand on it" test. Matthias, you did not disappoint. Also, as a math teacher, polyhedra make me happy.
That was a nice surprise! I will instantly have to fetch my own old paper-polyhedrons. I made a icosahedron from wood almost 30 years ago, but that didn't turn out as well as your dodecahedron-based geodesic, because I had a very cheap table saw. Btw: I assume, that your old one at 0:05 has been made without the double cut you show at 2:15.
Nice job. I would suggest you try a silicon caulk to adhere and to fill the cracks. You may also benefit from building the pieces around an inflated balloon that you could pop when completed (or if you glued the outside of the balloon it could remain as a smooth inner coating of your dome).
I love when you show that you really trust your work byt just jumping/sitting/standing on your products You can really say that you trust your math and geometry! ahah I remember building these complex shapes in middle school for tech drawing, and just cutting and creasing the paper then glue it was a real mess on most of the complex shapes
Next you need to write numbers on each face and use it playing D+D.... Yeah, never mind that. I agree about your comments about the miters! I think I might go bonkers with all those miters.
If you wanted to hide those screws in the lid. Drilled pockets in the lid and the base and glued in magnets, just be sure to orient the magnet poles for attraction.
I remember when scientific American published the article about buckminsterfullerenes. I tried to make the crystal structure from clay balls and old pen refills. It was tedious to say the least. Great video as usual.
Nice work. I think you could make something practical out of it if you turn it round on a lathe, cut the top clean off, dye the outside maybe bordeaux red or jaguar green and add a nice wooden base to it (like a ring). Varnish it and the grain should come out awesome. Could be a awesome cookie or sweets jar, IMHO....
Once I tried to make one of those "barn stars" out of wood. I understand geometry well enough to calculate all of my angles and bevels, but the compounding errors proved to be too much for me to pull it off. Nice job here.
Inspirational video as usual. Small point: I believe that SAW STOP would not have stopped (i.e. destroyed the blade) as SS requires contact with a fleshy material (not a wood and metal clamp).
Peter Henry I believe it works by the blade having a very small electrical current passed through it, it detects changes in this current and depending on that change takes action to stop the blade. I guess it would depend on whether the clamp metal was being touched during the cutting, which looking at the video looks possible.
Matthias Wandel A saw stop will be triggered by the smallest piece of metal including any part of a tape measure and backed insulation. Supposedly wet enough wood will also trigger the mechanism.
Peter Henry At work the saw stop has been triggered 5 times and only the last time was from someone's finger. You can easily test if the material that you are going to cut will set it off. With the saw OFF just touch the material to the blade, if the RED light flashes then you need to "lock it out" or better yet use another saw.
This is neat stuff. I work with icosahedral viruses that look kinda like this. Interestingly, the leading theory is that they assemble in much the same way you assembled it (pentagonal bits first).
Why not use small neodymium magnets as the "lid" catch? Not sure what you have in mind with it, but the use of strong magnets would keep the lid on fairly well while still leaving the outside looking normal.
Heh, used to get bored in some classes that repetitive and i'd make them in origami. Mechanically folding the pieces would, surprisingly, allow me to concentrate more. Come break, i'd build them up. One day i got bored of that too, that and the paper cuts.
Always a good day when Matthias posts a video
This is awesome. Replace some triangles with semi transparent ones and put a light bulb in it.
This is a great idea... even if you stick with all wood you could cut slits or holes or simply leave the bottom section out.
***** Yeah if it was a lamp, the gaps wouldn't be an issue, either, with light streaming out.
+johnnyq90 Yay! It's mini Jet-engine man!
Wizard. You're a wizard.
I'm a what?!
Rolling a d60 would make him the most powerful of wizards.
Your a wizard Harry.
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I messed around with geodetic domes backin the 60's and found that the angles have to be exact. When you said that the blade angle was close enough I new you were in trouble. You are the best. Thanks for the all the interesting and educational videos.
I hate using labels, but genius comes to mind. Your math and engineering skills are amazing. Thanks.
Another wonderful work of Mathias. Here in Brazil we are amazed. Congratulations!
That would make a great bird house !
I like this idea. May have to steal it!
syd ascott It would, but with all the work it takes to build one, you should charge the birds rent.
You are the most patient man on the internet. Great work, love watching your videos!
Awesome work! You mentioned about your dislike of tape as clamps. Here's a suggestion: Use the masking tape to line up the pieces (just like you did), then use a 1/2" thick rubber band that they use to hold broccoli stalks in a bundle. Secure the rubber band around the outside of the 5 piece pentagon. The pressure will be exerted inwards which will hold the pieces in place until the glue dries.However, this will only work for the pentagon pieces. Once you assemble the 12 pentagons into the sphere, use large rubber bands (cut from a car tire inner tube). The pressure will keep everything nice and tight but it will also allow last minute adjustments until the glue sets.Excellent video and excellent TH-cam channel. I am now inspired to try to build my own.
haha. Nice pocket hole disclaimer.
Jay Bates I figured I'd preempt the inevitable comments! :)
Jay Bates was gonna call him on it too lol
I'd be a liar if I said I didn't gasp in shock when I saw it!
Matthias Wandel I actually laughed out loud at that disclaimer.
Mark Lindsay as did I! Plussed for that alone.
Matthias Wandel very impressed with your work. Being a high school student, this woodwork has really caught my attention... thanks again for being a reliable uploader.
peace!
This would be the start of an awesome series of lamps. Now I just need to figure out a jig to drill out most of the material from the center each triangle.thank you sir for keeping me busy for the next week.
You don't need to drill the centers out, silly - just make a skeleton frame using a length of wood for each edge..
Dude, you do some of the coolest stuff. I learn engineering just by watching your videos - the use of tape on those glue ups to provide compression through use of tension was just awesome.
I can just imagine David Attenborough's voice at the end: "And here we have the rare footage of a native Matthias on a freshly laid egg..."
I would be very impressed if you scaled it up to make a roof for a gazebo . This video is impressive by itself. You make it look easier than it is.
My wife buys metal gazebos from Target and the never survive the winter winds.
Love watching you work it a true pleasure.
That's some fine looking geometry; oddly satisfying watching it all come together.
Also just used big print for the first time. It is incredible. Thanks Matthias.
I am fascinated by these types of work. Well done..
Awesome! I like the pocket holes! lol! I love those stereometric wood projects!
With the amount of tolerance stackup involved with a process like this it's impressive that you only had a few small gaps.
Great to see you make that thing, I've build a similar one at the art academy three years ago and still use it for storing small tools and some other special items :) Built my own laser cutter some time ago and now can cut thin veneers with it, so I make these shapes out of very thin wood which makes it easy because I don't have to use miters for the thickness :)
Always fascinated by your work, Just think in 10 years I'll be watching your next video where you have figured out how to make each piece using dovetails
Put a bunch of numbers on it to make it a D60
You are a huge nerd. I wish I had your talent. Well done.
60 sided geodesic out of solid wood.
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The first sentence of this video tells you all you need to know about this guy. A TRUE genius.
With all the cuts it came out great. Just a little error can really add up. now you have a fancy cookie jar.
I knew that there was a reason why I failed math at school. It's just so darned complicated. The table saw king strikes again! Well done Matthias.
You do come up with some very clever projects, well done...
Wow ... that must have taken forever to put that together.
man I needed this video like a month ago! I built a 1080 piece chair out of trapezoids fashioned to form equilateral triangles but I couldn't get the miters right to do my original design, props to you :D
Nice. I can imagine those miters are very hard to get right - once I made a world map in the shape of dodecahedron and it required quite a long time to fine tune the cuts. But the result can only be beautiful.
Mathias, Merry Christmas to you and your family . This video inspired me to make three way speakers, 3 domes on a base. I used a ring with sand paper on the inside to sand and shape the domes round. These are floor standing speakers using JBL studio master components and crossovers . I'm planning a set of dome speakers made out of limestone, they will look like snowmen. I wanted to thank you for all you expertise and videos , especially this one. My wife extended you this complement:
"His ,(meaning you , as I watch your videos), skill and craftsmanship makes you,( you is me her husband), look like an idiot".
It's true. Still I love her after all these years. Thanks again.
That would make a great bird house ! What do you think?
frank howarth I'm not so fond of the "sculpture as a a birdhouse". I guess a birdhouse is the new "ashtray" that kids always made from clay, for lack of a better "use" for it. I'd be more concerned about weather resistance for a birdhouse.
Matthias Wandel
What better "use" is there for this piece you made? because for me a birdhouse it's just as good as any other use you could give it. If birdhouses have become dull proyects, what better way to put some style and expertee on them than making something like this into one?
I do see your point on this being somewhat difficult to make waterproof, but I'm sure there is a way that this could be done, and i would love to hang this piece on a tree and see a bird flying out of it. That or play D&D....
That is excellent. And I'm really surprised that it's so robust to the point that you could actually stand on it too.
I have been a follower on my old account since I first created it in 2010 and I just want to say you are one of my favorite youtubers so keep making the videos thanks
You are an amazing individual. Love your work and commentary. You do a lot of angles. I am now thinking is your name is Math W. Angle.
The mathematical shapes are one of the things I would love to make in the shop, but the angles worry me. I will attempt again when I have a hole in projects. Awesome work Matthias!
I always like your work and your working style.its very nice and very professional and also its very helpful for those peoples who want to do something different and according to the natural requirements. Thank you sir Mushtaq mughal
Buckminster Fuller would be proud.
I only knew that name through Marc Maron's podcast, although he pronounces "B" differently ;)
Thanks to your comment I can now put a thing to the name, so, thanks for that!
Fuller once announced that he could cover New York City with a dome, for the cost of snow removal for ten years. He said the year round temp would be in the 70s F, so no heating or cooling costs for the residents. He was still on campus when I attended SIU-C, but I never thought to go meet him.
Thanks for sharing this Matthias!
As you know Dodecahedron is one of the sacred geometries.
And you may also know that, if you were to build one big enough for you to sit inside comfortably, you will be *inside a sacred space*
but did you know that if you were to meditate inside this 'Sacred space' , something strange, something magical begins to happen!
The whole time I was watching, I was wondering if he was going to do the "stand on it" test. Matthias, you did not disappoint. Also, as a math teacher, polyhedra make me happy.
Master woodworker caught trying to hatch geodesic wooden egg... film at eleven.
LOL. Love your videos. You're inspiring to watch.
That was a nice surprise! I will instantly have to fetch my own old paper-polyhedrons. I made a icosahedron from wood almost 30 years ago, but that didn't turn out as well as your dodecahedron-based geodesic, because I had a very cheap table saw. Btw: I assume, that your old one at 0:05 has been made without the double cut you show at 2:15.
Very cool! Looks like my summer project list just got bigger!
EL CHAPPY TAN If I attempted this, it would be all my summer project list would consist of!
As a woodturner I say that it is a very interesting idea... But I'm not there yet. Good work Matthias. Marc
man you're legend!!! you always seem to solve the problem ive been scratching my head over for ages!! great work ;)
I love your weird testing methods... lets jump on it! Or stand on it! Brilliant!
Great project Matthias! Thanks so much for sharing with us!!! W
*Very good job Matthias!!!*
Was that sound at the very end you jumping off, or the whole thing crushing under your weight? :P
That's crazzzzzzy! Cool but crazy, nice work.
Mr. Matthias Wandel Very Smart.
I salute with you Mr. Wandel.
Very cool. Perhaps buckysphere instructions/plans will be the next spheroid vid?
Nice job. I would suggest you try a silicon caulk to adhere and to fill the cracks. You may also benefit from building the pieces around an inflated balloon that you could pop when completed (or if you glued the outside of the balloon it could remain as a smooth inner coating of your dome).
Great idea and execution of that idea!
I love when you show that you really trust your work byt just jumping/sitting/standing on your products
You can really say that you trust your math and geometry! ahah
I remember building these complex shapes in middle school for tech drawing, and just cutting and creasing the paper then glue it was a real mess on most of the complex shapes
Awesome job, Matthias
Next you need to write numbers on each face and use it playing D+D....
Yeah, never mind that.
I agree about your comments about the miters! I think I might go bonkers with all those miters.
always been fascinated by euclidean solids...bucky-spheres are just an extension of those.....may have to make a set of them now....
Well done. I couldn't do that. Really impressive
Very interesting. That would be interesting to make on from various types of wood and then turned round on a lathe
If you wanted to hide those screws in the lid.
Drilled pockets in the lid and the base and glued in magnets, just be sure to orient the magnet poles for attraction.
Half the time I don't understand what he is saying, I just like seeing the project being made precisely as one would imagine
wow that is too cool. That must take a lot of patience to make all those pieces without knowing if it will fit perfectly
I remember when scientific American published the article about buckminsterfullerenes. I tried to make the crystal structure from clay balls and old pen refills. It was tedious to say the least. Great video as usual.
damn i need to stop watching wood shop type videos i get too jealous. i want all those tools and blades and that table saw is soo awesome
I don't know what purpose this could serve... but it's really cool anyway!
Nice job and thanks for the lesson. Maybe I will try it one day.
Nice work. I think you could make something practical out of it if you turn it round on a lathe, cut the top clean off, dye the outside maybe bordeaux red or jaguar green and add a nice wooden base to it (like a ring). Varnish it and the grain should come out awesome.
Could be a awesome cookie or sweets jar, IMHO....
You sir, are a genius.
Buckminster Fuller was an amazing guy. And an excellent woodworker, I suspect.
Once I tried to make one of those "barn stars" out of wood. I understand geometry well enough to calculate all of my angles and bevels, but the compounding errors proved to be too much for me to pull it off. Nice job here.
With so many repetitive cuts, it's easy to let your guard down. Glad you didn't cut into a finger!
Recalling my one attempt at compound cuts for fitting molding corners I am sitting here with my jaw on the floor in awe.
Always enjoy your videoes Thanks
With all those repetitive cuts, the first thing I thought about was safety. People can often nick their hands on the blade with repetitive cuts.
Inspirational video as usual. Small point: I believe that SAW STOP would not have stopped (i.e. destroyed the blade) as SS requires contact with a fleshy material (not a wood and metal clamp).
Peter Henry I believe it works by the blade having a very small electrical current passed through it, it detects changes in this current and depending on that change takes action to stop the blade. I guess it would depend on whether the clamp metal was being touched during the cutting, which looking at the video looks possible.
Peter Henry A sawstop will trigger off metal, if it's big enough or touched.
Matthias Wandel A saw stop will be triggered by the smallest piece of metal including any part of a tape measure and backed insulation. Supposedly wet enough wood will also trigger the mechanism.
Matthias Wandel Bosch will be making one called the Reaxx that doesn't destroy the blade in the process.
Peter Henry At work the saw stop has been triggered 5 times and only the last time was from someone's finger. You can easily test if the material that you are going to cut will set it off. With the saw OFF just touch the material to the blade, if the RED light flashes then you need to "lock it out" or better yet use another saw.
I'm gonna start wood working now because of this. I could build my own furniture!
Spectacular. Very good your project
Great video, and amazing work.
Screw all the, will it blend, hydraulic press, slo mo guys stuff. This! is interesting and satisfying to watch.
I want to see the cat carrier, that would be very cool!
I like the stress test on an object which shouldn't really be under any load.
Awesome Mr. Wandel, tnx for sharing!!!
Pretty cool! Now you need to make a tape dispenser! lol
whoa that cut into the clamp was scary.
Well I'm amazed. Great work.
TOTALLY AMAZED BY YOUR BRILLIANCE, HOWEVER WHY DID YOU NOT PUT THE HANDLE OF YOUR CLAMP AWAY FROM THE CUTTING BLADE?
if I put it on the other way, I'd have to reach near the spinning blade while clamping
This is neat stuff. I work with icosahedral viruses that look kinda like this. Interestingly, the leading theory is that they assemble in much the same way you assembled it (pentagonal bits first).
+Mike Strauss an icosahedron only has 20 faces though. This thing has 60 making it a hexecontahedron
Parabéns. Só do Brasil e gostei muito do seu trabalho.
Just, so enjoyable to watch.
I really like your videos.
I don't know what to say, other than; this is really cool! Nice vid, and cool project
Instead of ugly pocket screws, you could have inset magnets into the edges of the triangles.
Just wood clue is enough.
@@ExtemporeMuzzzz but then he wouldnt be able to get in again
also, to op, then it probably wouldnt be able to support his weight
I have an overwhelming urge to kick it, but know it would just break my foot. Neat project
This project is like watching the cliff divers in Mexico. Fascinating but I would never, ever try it myself.
.haces muy buenos trabajos,eres un genio.
saludos México.
Why not use small neodymium magnets as the "lid" catch? Not sure what you have in mind with it, but the use of strong magnets would keep the lid on fairly well while still leaving the outside looking normal.
Heh, used to get bored in some classes that repetitive and i'd make them in origami. Mechanically folding the pieces would, surprisingly, allow me to concentrate more.
Come break, i'd build them up. One day i got bored of that too, that and the paper cuts.