We decided it was about time to start making the outer legs for our droids so Victor Franco's tutorial based on Michael Senna's design seemed to be the perfect fit. I stopped by Menards today over lunch and picked up a 4'x8'x½" piece of MDO plywood and a 4'x8'x¾" piece of regular plywood (this is a little overkill, but hopefully we can use the extra ¾" plywood for the center legs later). I still need to pickup a 4'x4'x¼" sheet of plywood, but I think we have more than enough wood and work to get us by for now. A quick count of working local club members determined that we were going to need outer legs for me, another builder, Mr. Claybo, KITT, and Dash. Yes, your math is correct. That is five sets or ten legs. Out total cost so far is a little over $75 for the outer legs. Without counting the ¼" plywood and the hardware, the cost per leg is about $7.50.
Moose and I started out the evening by tracing the legs onto the ½" plywood.
While Moose and Mr. Claybo traced the outer leg patterns on the ¾" plywood, KITT and I cut out the ½" plywood outer legs and ankles.
After a night of hard work, the group decided to play a little outer leg guitar.
WOW!!! Those are a lot of leg pieces! And we haven't even cut out the ¾" and ¼" leg and ankle plywood pieces yet.
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