I started working on - or rather finally picked up again - my plans for spudcannon mark II. So far there’s a general-get-the-basic-idea drawing in Illustrator, plus cut paths for some plastic pieces that I’ll put together into metal casting forms. I’ve been doing some aluminum casting with a friend and trying to think of something to cast, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. The cast pieces are a top for the fork that the cannon rests on and two horizontal plates that allow the fork to rotate.

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