After my intial design phase, I was finally at a point where I felt that I could build it with some confidence. So over the summer of 2015, while at my Dad's house, I got a nice looking log, some tools, and started chipping away at it to make the turbine shape. The result was less that ideal. The product was heavy, fragile, and in no way fit for spinning at any rate of speed. So frustrated was I with that crappy looking hunk of wood that it got smashed to bits and procceded to be tossed in a late night campfire, never to be seen again.

Next log, the project as it stands now.