Once you get dialed in, it’s not too bad. I use Sketchup to design the shape and export the faces as SVGs, total time to design was maybe 1.5 hours, because I was just eyeballing it as I went to see what looked good to me. I was rusty and did make one mistake that cost me some time – had to redesign/ re-cut one piece, the slot was in the wrong place. Rookie move.
As for assembly, there are 4 different face pieces with 5 different connector pieces. It’s pretty easy to get an assembly line kind of thing going, and it goes together fairly quickly, maybe 2 hours of build time. The bigger issue is that I make my pieces fit fairly tightly, so now my thumb and index fingers are sore. If I scaled it up and used larger parts this would be improved.
Some stats:
240 faces (250 cut to account for failed cuts or breakage during assembly)
360 connectors (396 cut)
2.5 full sheets of baltic birch
I use my typical painters tape trick to remove the masking from the parts, so that was very easy as far as these things go.
As to that, it’s actually fewer pieces than the geometric beast, which came in at 900 pieces I think.
Funny, reading that, 2.5 hours of weeding… this was before I figured out what I call the “painter’s tape sandwich” method. With tape, weeding would take 15 mins tops.