Dallas Makerspace Show & Tell - December 2019

And another. I made this for a gift exchange at work tomorrow. Sterling silver with rainbow moonstone, austrian crystal, and pearl. Style is a Y-necklace (see upper right insert image).

The focal stone wrap is the basic bezel wirewrap I teach occasionally. I’ll schedule some classes after the turn of the year if there’s interest.

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Count me in!! I’m still waiting on my last backordered wire to come in at RioGrande.

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Omigoodness I love these so much!!!

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Macrocrystalline glaze fire:

@Monikat, @brendamvilla, @John_Dorion, @amy_er, @Anette_Henningson, @Liamluu

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Thanks! I’m really excited to get some blanks in and see what else I can do.

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Giving a Texas-themed gift, thus opted to go for something centered around some local Whiskey (literally - it’s distilled in Lewisville).

Materials

  • 5mm underlayment
  • Titebond II wood glue
  • Min Wax color express
  • 3mm EVA foam
  • Too many miniature hinges (next time, piano hinge)
  • Jewelry box latches
  • Tall shot glasses from Buc-Ee’s (where else to get Texas kitsch?)
  • All that to contain ~$20 worth of liquor

Like so many things, I ran up against deadlines thus it’s not quite what I dreamed of it being - both in terms of design and execution. But for all of the small errors and bodges, I completed it on time and I suspect the recipient will be pleased.

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Looks great. Nice job

Ammo can cigar humidor. Got some old boxes from the cigar store, humidity monitor, ammo can. Since I am giving as a gift I lasered the logo on the little shelf. I used epoxy to glue the sides to the can. Prototype and the next one I want to cut the wood using the laser and interlock them, will be much better.

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Quick fun shirt for the wife

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Found a necklace for the Pendant I made, thankfully just in time for Christmas gifting.

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Love the perspective shift … unless this pendant is about 10" x 14".:wink:

Looks good. Would go with this new backpack:
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Oh yes! That’s perfect.

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I made this little ring in @sroriginals Sue’s class. It’s a simple little fun project that you can whip up in no time. She had several different patterned wires in silver and copper. All we had to do was bend it and solder the joint (and make it round and buff it).

I take classes in order to covet new tools. Hydroflux welder … where have you been all my life?? :heart_eyes:

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Made a spinning Bronze and Brass Desk lamp with individually addressable amber, warm white, cool white LEDs in place of (r, g, b) / (ww, nw, cw) on each die/pixel

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Thanks to @JBluJkt for the intro to stamping class. Fun and productive. I’m going to need lots more practice to get high quality results, but I’m pretty happy with my first attempt.


12 ga copper, stamped and patinaed, shaped and polished.
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Amazon has a large verity. I just got a pack of black and swap out my pendants. Nice job!

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Which class was that? The hydroflux one?

The class was “simple band rings, soldered, hydroflux torch training”, in the Jewelry category.

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Decided to give out flashlights to the family this year … in laser-cut presentation boxes:

Materials pretty much identical to the hooch box above with the addition of a pair of risers of 6mm EVA foam for the inserts in each box. I was hoping for a more … refined … finish than the hooch box, but time constraints, a bad paint setup on the ~3ft² I was able to clear on my workbench in my garage, and just enough patience with finishing to make it not obnoxiously horrific conspired against me.

Lithium AAs because I don’t want to repair one more device that’s had an alkaline cell leak inside it Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Alkalines™ and the recipients aren’t going to invest in a low-self-discharge NiMH setup.

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