[noelsarchs]

Let's see, we haven't been talking about chips much lately, so to start the new year let's have a little thread devoted to chip tower building.

Any number of entries is OK....someone start the show please.

[shanghai_sparky]

We need to start the show with the bottle of Balvenie on yours.

Originally Posted by noelsarchs

Well, sitting around while this tropical storm drops it load on us and killing my golf game for the second straight day, what else is one to do on a long weekend?

Almost finished with the two connecting bridges with a spire, one chip left and ouch, structural failure! I quit.

[noelsarchs]

[hardhouseinc]

HOLY crap... thats cool....
Im about to go home and try and figure out how to make that stacking pattern...
VERY COOL guys!!!

[AlbinoDragon]

Noel,

I need to figure out how to do that connecting bridge as well. That's crazy! Looks like it's defying the laws of physics or something. Also, props on the Doublewood. That's my "everyday" whisky.

Here are two fairly recent ones.

There are the three bridges connecting the opposing stacks together, the full double ring on top of it all, and a stack on top of the topmost bridge.

This one is not so much a true tower, but it was fun and challenging.

Six bridges on the bottom, four on top of those, two on those topped by a final span. I was about to but a stack on top of the upper bridge and stopped a half-inch from placing the stack when a little voice in my head said to take a picture. I took this, and in the process of adding the stack, the whole lot came crashing down! This one took close to three hours, and I did it after disassembling the stacks and bridges above.

I'd like to find a big and very stable table to do a 12-9-6-4-2-1 version of this. (think, this on top of two additional sets of bridges).

[noelsarchs]

I had dreams last night about how to build a tower bridge like structure with holes everywhere, just like yours, and then I wake to see that you did them.

Nice work. I still can't figure out how you made those bridges though!

Mine was easy. Just make a circle with chips and then keep adding to the circle at each layer by shifting the chip one half chip overlap.

If you want the color spiral, just use a different color base chip at each and then work your way up using the same colors at each level.

As for mine, you can see that I didn't get my camera out in time before my bridges all crashed down.

[2_hotty]

Old Skool cherry tower:


I'll have to break out the customs and do another one. Been a while since I've tried a tower.

[Happy Hazard]

Wow those are amazing, i gotta give that a try. Someone needs to write up a "How-to" for chip stacking dummies like me

[imperial10]

Here is my entry do I win a pat on the back???

[noelsarchs]

The beginning of a new tower...



The partial collapse of a new tower...