@DemBoSain@midwest.social it masses the same as 555.9 grams of bananas.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee thanks, I try my best.

@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com that’s the plan. I gotta pay for that M.E. degree somehow.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee I’m not an actual machinist, just self taught. Also my machine isn’t particularly nice/precise. It’s an 90s bridgeport with a 3 axis cnc kit. So I try and use whatever tricks I can to make it all work out.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee thanks. The fixture wasn’t initially planned for, but the last pass on the roughing cut for the front went too deep and thinned the tabs holding it in the billet a little too much for comfort. So I just used the cad file to make a negative that I cut into the wood. The Scaling Banana™ fits quite snuggly into the fixture, the grey silicone was just to keep it from lifting out during machining.

@givesomefucks@lemmy.world you’re the one missing the joke, this has nothing to do with banana radioactivity. I’m aware that bananas are used as an equivalent dose measurement of radiation. This has nothing to do with that.

It’s also worth noting that in its final form it will be anodized yellow.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee The wood fixture was only used for the finishing pass and engraving for the top. The rest was just held in the billet by leaving a .020" layer around all sides.

@Zachariah@lemmy.world its made from a composite of 4 3d scans of bananas purchased from 3 different retailers. So it’s the average size of your average banana.

@givesomefucks@lemmy.world This is not in reference to the radioactive potassium content of bananas. This is in reference to the internet trope of adding a “banana for scale” to uploaded pictures.