Instead of the many stars in the Stars luge design posted last April, this design has only one star. The star isn’t symmetrical and is distorted somewhat. The drawing and the photo show some small differences and these arise partly because the original sculpture was initially freehand carved without a template. This design was based on that sculpture. Sometimes the process seems to be backwards: the sculpture comes before the “design.” Actually, though, the design did come before the sculpture, it just was never put to paper before it went to ice.

    There is nothing particularly challenging about this design, but the basic process of adding tubing to the sculpture needs to be followed. Also, note that the tubing track does not turn very fast (avoiding kinks in the tubing) and the track always goes down so that liquids flow through as efficiently as possible. At the exit point, it’s better if the tube points more down than to the side so that it’s easier to get the drink to flow into a glass. Also, despite the points on the star, notice that the meltwater will flow primarily to the base of the sculpture and not drip outside the tray.

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