How good is your perception?

[Piecat]

Go to the fridge and take out an egg. Study it for as long as you like, but no measurements or drawings. Put the egg back! (honesty here is important).

Go to your workshop, choose any material you like (wood, plastic. alumininum, or whatever), go to your lathe or milling machine, and try to replicate that egg as accurately as possible (shape and size).

Take pictures of your creation next to an ordinary hen’s egg, and post your pictures here. No prizes, just pride in your workmanship.

Shape away!

Piecat.

 

[stevehuckss396]

Cool challenge!

Wish I had time to participate.

 

[cfellows]

Is this a trick challenge? ???

Chuck

 

[Piecat]

Hi Chuck.

No, I am dead serious. Some years ago when I still had a wood lathe, my wife asked me if I could make her some wooden eggs from different woods, to be displayed on the coffee table.

Trusting only my instincts, I grabbed a piece of fine grained maple, and got going. The first one did not look right, as did the next five!. Running out of maple, I went inside and took an egg, measured it and made a careful drawing of it.
Only then could I manage to make a wooden egg with a fair resemblance to a real one.

Piecat.

 

[tornitore45]

A real chicken egg is far from elliptical in cross section, is seriously tear drop distorted. Make sense if you just visualize the expulsion process.

Does the rounder end exit first or last?

 

[mcostello]

I think the egg is probably round then changed from expulsion process, as there could not be any shape sorting machinery in place.