Hey everyone.  Here's the Blender version of this tutorial, for anyone who may be interested in making this object easily in Blender.  In this video, as mentioned, I'm using Blender 2.75, and I do have Pie Menus, Dynamic Spacebar Menu, and the Icons:Dev addons enabled, but they are not required to follow along.  Hope you enjoy!

Also, for anyone here who may prefer Wings3D as their modeling package of choice: my friend, and brilliant Wings modeler, Micheus Vieira, has taken it upon himself (with my blessing) to translate this workflow to the Wings3D software platform.  Here's a link to his Wings3D tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7fGuLPOPgY

Once again, I hope you enjoy, and find this technique useful.  Thanks!

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