The Five Platonic Solids

Truncated Icosahedron aka "soccer ball"	There are 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons - all are finger-jointed to fit together.  The shape is a truncated icosahedron and it is a little smaller than a soccer ball.  Each tile is about 3/4" thick.  If I make another one of these, I will make the joints a little bit less tight to make the glue-up go smoother.
	The tiles pictured here are laminated in maple and walnut.  Many geometric color patterns can be made to make tiled objects look more interesting.
	Another pattern made with two-tone tiles.
	Another object made with triangular tiles.  Am I the only one crazy enough to make a square out of equilateral triangles?  :)
	An earlier object made of triangular tiles - this time in pine.  These tiles have more fingers per inch but they were too fragile and broke easily.  I changed the frequency of the finger jointing later to make the fingers wider and more durable.
polyhedron Walnut and Maple Friction-Fit Tiles.	A dodecahedron has 12 pentagonal sides.  This model substitutes 5-sided pyramids made of 60° isosceles triangles in place of each pentagon for a total of 60 sides.  Walnut and maple friction-fit.
	This is also a dodecahedron in cherry made with 5-sided pyramids except the points of the pyramids are pointed inwards making the edges of the 12 sided dodecahedron much more obvious.