Subtraction – Final Project
For my final project I’ve decided to build a lamp. Initially, I wanted to build the lamp I had drawn up around the time of the CNC assignments, which has the design below. And looked like a little person, similar to this design. But after some consideration, thinking of what tools I can use and…
Week 10(?) – 4-Axis Milling
So many steps !!!! I didn’t really know what I wanted to make for this skill builder, I thought about doing a tealight candle holder, just some kind of simple shape. Ended up drawing this curvy thing that I’ll probably end up drilling a hole into the side / top to fit some kind of…
Week 7 (?) – More Turning
This week we have to turn a wooden mallet — consisting of a mallet head, handle, and pin. I purchased a pack of 2″ x 2″ x 12″ square blanks of lumber as well as a chunk of maple ambrosia that was 3″ x 6″ x 6″ that I cut down to about 3″ x…
Week 6 – Wood Lathe
This week’s skill builder was to turn on the wood lathe. Personally I have been really looking forward to finally learning how to use this tool. I’ve put my plans to make a bowl on hold for now and will make a handle for this week. I have a couple of blanks that I purchased…
Week 5 – Joinery
For my two week CNC project I’ve been playing around with a couple different ideas — a lamp, side table, coffee table — but for now I’m just starting with the side table idea. I’d like to build a side table that can fit right in the niche of my window. The structure will be…
Week 4 – Even MORE CNC-ing
I really want to make some kind of lamp or other light fixture, but I wanted to do something simple for this first run on the big-boy CNC in the basement. (Plus I don’t have a whole of time between now and next Thursday where I can be on campus). First, I thought of just…
Week 3 – More CNC-ing
For this other CNC project, I wanted to recreate and puzzle I had growing up, that consists of yellow and orange shapes and has a stack of cards with different images you can create using these seven different shapes, each shaping is used twice. I did some quick sketching to come up with measurements/proportions. Last…
Week 2 Skill Builder – Othermill
This week’s skill builder is to use the Othermill desktop CNC machine. Earlier this summer, I saw this really neat tiny portable watercolor set made of wood – link to the Etsy site. I drew up some layouts in Illustrator and exported them as two separate SVG files for the Bantam software. Going through all…
Week 1 Skill Builder – Router
For this first week of subtraction, our ‘skill builder’ exercise was to use the router. I wanted to try and make a simple channel through a block of wood, which I used the table router to cut it out. I learned to adjust the height of the route bit at a smaller increment, because a…