Start of my first turbine.

[bend1]

Bend: I stiuck both posts together and removed the other one. Looks like you are off to a good start.  Tom

[dbcollen]

The blades look nice, except the knot in the one is in just the wrong place, and goes all the way across the blade. It is very likely the blade will fail right at the knot when the turbine is heavily loaded and cause a severe off balance condition, which if not shut down immediately will cause severe damage to the entire turbine. It would be cheap insurance to spend a few hours carving a new blade than to risk having to start from scratch because of a blade failure.

Dustin

[Flux]

I have to agree about the knot, that blade is a disaster waiting to happen. Otherwise it looks great.

Flux

[richhagen]

I would agree with others on the blades.  There will be a force across the blades pushing them back, and strength in the axis of the wind direction is needed.  The blade with the knot is effectively the same as a much thinner piece of wood in that axis at the point of the knot and will likely snap at that location.  Interesting tiltback frame.  Rich