Some chapters are bigger than others and this one is the biggest of them all! There’s a lot of material covered in this chapter, so make sure you take your time when going through it. We’re going to build a rather complicated inorganic structure – a fire hydrant. It has lots of different shapes, indentations, bolts, and protuberances and we will cover a lot of techniques making it.

Fig 13.1  The fire hydrant we are going to build

Centerpiece

The first piece we will build is the centerpiece, or main part of the hydrant. It is basically a tube with a flat flange at both ends. We’re going to use a method for extruding ...

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