Disassembled: What came first

During the initial construction of the pacioffi handles, most things went relatively smooth once I had gotten a feel for the program.

Where my initial struggles with the form occurred were in the cylindrical handles.
How was I supposed to get that curve at the bottom of them? And how was i supposed to connect that curve with the handle being only half of a cylinder?

The process of making the initial shape of the handles took a surprising amount of time due to my unfamiliarity to the program. following the trouble I faced with the handles, I faced two more, one of which was far easier to solve than the other.
the curve at the top of the pacioffi was tricky because I couldnt quite figure out of to make it a closed polysurface.
After eventually solving that problem, I had to face the big one. How in the world do I make the curve from the handles to the flat part?
Well that answer took quite some time to figure out.
I'll explain in the next post.

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