The Planet Project
2002/2003

WORK 2002

Here is most of the 2002 crew.

All Photos by Phil Roach.Except for the one of the Earth, I think NASA owns that one.

Bruce Bump and John Davis make some important decisions before starting to work.

This is Ed Schempp the real instigator of the whole project.

More decisions.

One of the first billets into the forge.
This is a stack of dissimilar metals for making Damascus, in the following pictures you will see it forge welded together.

Hot steel compressed under the force of a 20 ton hydraulic press.

Matt rolling out some steel for the globes structure.

One of the bars twisted for the supporting structure.

Flatting out the twists

We believe this to be the longest twisted bar ever made.

Bruce cutting out some country for a continent.

Gary House cleaning up one of the continents.

One of the continents with the tiles cooking into it.

Hammering the curve into Africa.

Smoothing out the surface of a continent.

Useing the cutting torch to cut the foundation of South America

Surface grinding Damascus tiles .

Lyle Bronkhorst working on the suopporting structer.

Nick Wheeler and Tom Ferry fine tuning.