Project Information
This a mixed medium post so I hope it's okay. Made from Mahogany finished in Shellac, using aluminum rod, 18ga picture frame wire, and birch branches.
I posted it on imgur/reddit last week and it blew up racking over 500,000 views in 18 hours and made it to the front page of Reddit for most of the day. USA Today also contacted me for an article on it, http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2017/01/25/man-creates-epic-full-size-harry-potter-nimbus-2000-broom-friends-bar-mitzvah/97030654/ and it was also plucked from imgur and placed on various websites as the Chive, and WhatsTrending.
I made this for a family friend's son's Bar Mitzvah which happened a few weeks ago. Their son was having a Harry Potter themed Bar Mitzvah and really wanted to get a Nimbus 2000 for him as the centerpiece but didn't know where to get it. I said it would be an honor to make it for him as a gift and here it is. It took close to 60 hours on the weekends, but a lot of that was spent figuring out how to make/connect the footrest, and individually sewing each branch in 4 separate sections. If I were to make another(which I'm not) I could probably cut it down in half. It measures 66" from end to end.
Anyways, here is the link to the full thing if you care to see the build process.
I know the middle is short grain, I really do. Yes, it does bother me a little. However, this is mainly for display. If it was functional then it would bother me A LOT, but for this purpose, and due to time constraints, I don't care.
This was a really fun build, but I really hated the branch work haha.
Thanks for looking.
I posted it on imgur/reddit last week and it blew up racking over 500,000 views in 18 hours and made it to the front page of Reddit for most of the day. USA Today also contacted me for an article on it, http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2017/01/25/man-creates-epic-full-size-harry-potter-nimbus-2000-broom-friends-bar-mitzvah/97030654/ and it was also plucked from imgur and placed on various websites as the Chive, and WhatsTrending.
I made this for a family friend's son's Bar Mitzvah which happened a few weeks ago. Their son was having a Harry Potter themed Bar Mitzvah and really wanted to get a Nimbus 2000 for him as the centerpiece but didn't know where to get it. I said it would be an honor to make it for him as a gift and here it is. It took close to 60 hours on the weekends, but a lot of that was spent figuring out how to make/connect the footrest, and individually sewing each branch in 4 separate sections. If I were to make another(which I'm not) I could probably cut it down in half. It measures 66" from end to end.
Anyways, here is the link to the full thing if you care to see the build process.
I know the middle is short grain, I really do. Yes, it does bother me a little. However, this is mainly for display. If it was functional then it would bother me A LOT, but for this purpose, and due to time constraints, I don't care.
This was a really fun build, but I really hated the branch work haha.
Thanks for looking.