Another couple projects and I’ll be ready for teaching sign off I think 
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A lathe handle I made. I turned the receiver on the metal lathe and milled the set screws. I turned the handle on the wood lathe. All from stock.
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Very nicely done.
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Completed bags by students in my Zipper Bag class tonight. Great job everyone! We had a fun time.
Cindy
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Thanks to @tomthm and Science, I was able to silver a microscope slide to make a rear-surface mirror (with hanging wire) for my vintage kitchen scene.
I routed the moulding and carved the “shell”.
We learned some useful things trying to silver the slide.
- The silver film wipes off if you touch it, even gently. I lacquered the silver film which was the back side of the mirror.
- You have to be fast. The silver precipitates out of the solution quickly. Even if you have enough solution left over to do a second item, you won’t have enough time.
Glass and mirror thickness is a problem in miniature. Standard glass is 1/8" thick which would be comparable to 1.5" in 1:12 scale. A microscope slide isn’t accurate either, but it’s a lot better and in this case, the thickness is hidden by the frame.
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haven’t done this in a while, but here are a couple of leather embossing stamps I made for some old customers. Laser engraved on Delrin. 1.25"
create everyday
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I wonder if an old CD could be cut down?
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I believe they are 1 mm thick which would make them about 1/2" scaled.
Optical discs are primarily polycarbonate so the Shapeoko seems a good choice. Which could also be used to shave the thickness.
However, they are actually translucent so more “mirror like” than “mirror”.
In any case, @John_Marlow, I have some old unburned CDs if you’re interested.
