I guess I'll get over it and quit crying now...
I took a bunch of pictures today and will take a bunch more tomorrow. That should give me plenty of fodder to fuel this thread for a while.
As you can see, I've cleaned up that third ball and have begun to rough-out the next few sections. What I'm going to do next is thin out the shaft from the cages up top. That shaft will extend down through the cage you can see starting to take shape. The cage will be loose on the shaft. That's a variation of the "plunger". The plunger shaft will terminate into a ball in the cage.
There will also be a ring on that shaft (inside of the cage) as demonstrated in the following photo:
...The cage will then take on a 1/4 twist and the lower portion will contain 2 balls in a cage inside of the main cage. Another variation of the ball-in-a-cage-in-a-cage.
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/HPIM0307.jpg
Here's a new photo of the last piece I was showing you that wasn't quite done, except, now it's completed and clear-coated. This piece measures 26 inches long at its shortest and 32 inches long when fully extended.
Stay tuned: lots more to come.