Dallas Makerspace Show and Tell - January 2017

Using @apparently_weird and @bitta’s clever fieldnotes pattern from the leather-n-lasers class as a starting point, I put together a version of my own with some laser- etched art and a longer/thicker pen holder.

The dye is still a little wet in these photos.

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Had a weekend full of fun projects, mostly all complete too.

Wooden ring, made from some veneer (unknown wood)

Walnut cutting board

Also made a plaque for a local school

And finally my entry for the kiddos pinewood derby in aa couple weeks :slight_smile:

Yeah, busy weekend!

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Wow, James Polser was my neighbor in Flower Mound/Lewisville. Very interesting family along with Huffines family.

Nice looking projects!

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Is that plaque MDF routed on our MultiCAM?
I guess their mascot is a Polar Bear (schools, once upon a time, made this sort of thing VEEERY evident, but I am unable to confirm this from their web page)?

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Lol yes and yes. The Polser Polarbears, in Texas…

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I’m guessing you’ve never encountered the Hutto Hippos from central Texas… :smiley:

I updated the experimental veneer ring I made last week with a band of wafer thin (0.004in) copper that I flattened from a piece of old electrical wiring.

Gives it a lot more character :slight_smile:

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Made the colorful metal thingy in larger pic, an adaptation of a simple fiber tool, a “diz” (disk with hole, this is mini-version used in non-standard way) to solve a fussy fiber prep problem.

(Longer explanation/blather) :slight_smile:
So I’m still experimenting with best prep for smooth spinning on my Tibetan support spindle with this tiny short very fine Finn lamb’s fleece. It’s delicate and short and normal prep methods just created tangles. So now I’m using a hybrid tool/method that is working well where I load entire edge of cotton card, and diz a roving off like from combs. For it to work, I needed a smaller diz with smaller hole. So of course now I had a flimsy excuse to get out tools and make one :slight_smile:

For the non-fibery folks, a diz is a disk with a small hole that is used in conjunction with wool combs to prepare fleece for spinning. The combs straighten out the fleece and get the junky bits out, then use diz to gradually pull off the fiber into a long poofy rope ready for spinning.

So meet my new mini diz, folks. It’s made from a piece of brass sheet where I’d been experimenting scribing hypotrochoidal forms, some sawing, then a little filing, a metal hole punchy gadget, some more filing, some hammering and dapping, and a dose of alcohol inks…voila!

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We had another metal pen making class last night. Everyone was very engaging which makes it fun for me too. No one was hurt in the rock/paper/scissor death match at the end and the lone survivor was @jphelps who won the pen.

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Built a quick stool for some kids that couldn’t reach the sink to brush their teeth :slight_smile:

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Made some little yard signs.

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Thanks @kyrithia for sharing this and for taking the extra time to write up the context for non-spinners like myself to better follow what you did.

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Finally applied my granddog’s food container tag. This was my hands on, don’t forget what i learned after vinyl cutter class, project.
Tool chain:
Random jpg example from the internet
Gimp: remove name with clone stamp
VinylMaster: vectorize bitmap, add text, and cut

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Made a dueling Tree at DMS

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200 Dye sublimation dog tags for Frisco ISD. Much appreciation to @CaryF300 for assistance with procurement of tags.

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