I finished the spider and secondary. YEA

Hello,
After four tries at the spider I got it right. A little inspiration from one of my best friends that I have not talked to in a while, helped me finalize my design that worked. It works great and looks pretty good too if you ask me. These last few days have been pretty hard with every little thing going wrong.....luckily they are only little things. But I think things are looking up and coming together. Each step of this process seems to be filled with little hurdles that must be jumped in a different way each time. Its a good thing I go to Evergreen where we pride ourselves on multi-disciplinary work. I never thought it would pay off but it has.

I got the secondary put together

The last few days have been a lot of sanding and tweaking to create this next step. I'm really excited to see the things in my head finally come together. I am amazed at how a crazy idea can become a reality. I think it all is looking pretty good for a kid with little wood working experience.

Cut out the pieces for the Secondary

Today I cut circles. Lots and lots of circles. Here are some pictures to show what I've got so far.

One other fun part of my day was trying to figure out how to put an equilateral triangle into a circle.(the placement of My strings and tubes). I finally figured it out yea. I love trig!

Does anyone have any tips for making circles look really smooth. I hope a palm sander will work on the insides.

Take care,
Nate G

I finished the Mirror box bottom

I learned about Dovetails and circular router cuts in the last five days. I now have the main box built as well as the primary box bottom done. I am going to lay out the rest of the positions of the poles and the strings tomorrow.

Here's the Pictures of the progress so far.