Dallas Makerspace Show and Tell - May 2016

Finally got a chance to finish my hall table and attach the hairpin legs. Not unhappy with the results, but I think in the future I’m going to get a cabinet shop to do a good spray finish on furniture. It’s stinky and I suck at it.

Cherry on either side, with 1.5" squares of leopard wood, indian rosewood, padauk, purpleheart, mesquite, goncalo alves and a couple others I don’t remember at the moment.



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Replaced and organized general use toolbox, perhaps the black on clear labels were not the best choice


Only you can prevent messy workshops!

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Finished a carving mallet and a jointers mallet early in the month

And created a jig to facilitate making the dulcimer sticks for the class, sadly the stick I made to document the process for the class broke before I completed it…

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Your typical Friday night at the Dallas Makerspace.

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I made some 3 sided signs for my mother’s office.

I glued three pieces of wood together to make a thick block, and cut out the triangles on the bandsaw with the angled table. I made a quick jig using scrap to hold the triangles flat, and used the raster function of the new thunder laser :slight_smile: I’m in love with the new laser!!

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Finished up a couple of pieces yesterday. I started playing with some of the rose cut sapphires I acquired - love them!

Custom order with a green sapphire/sterling:

Dark blue sapphire with 14k gold bezel (the rest is sterling):

And a pair of ruby/sterling earrings just because:

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I needed a spare key for my bike. Ordered two cheap blanks from Ebay. Used the hand vise and pattern files in Jewellery to cut a copy of the original. Worked nicely.

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So, inspired by @coloneldan knife sheath class last week, I purchased a small knife sheath kit for my sloyd woodworking knife (came with a plastic sheath, yuk!), and produced this ugly thing. May not be well done, but I am please with what is only my second leather working project. Love the makerspace, I would never have even considered branching out into leather working with the space!

BTW, I experimented with using some woodworking dye in an alcohol base for dyeing the leather. Seems to have worked fairly well.

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Looks great Walter. How may leather tools did you buy? Like me when you get into a new hobby, which is often for me, you go all crazy and buy a lot of the tools. Later you realize there are even nicer higher quality tools that do a lot better job and you go crazy again.

As you said in class, the person with the most tools wins :smile:

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Still in the acquisition phase. But maybe two dozen so far…

Sage observation. I just advised a fellow miniaturist to buy the best tools he/she could afford. They’ll end up owning those tools eventually and they wouldn’t waste the money on the tools they will end up replacing.

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Buying the highest quality tools I can afford is my “new motto,” however, sometime you’re just not sure you want to get in a hobby and don’t want to splurge on the best tools immediately. Regardless, higher quality, better tools are the way to go if you can afford them. Now I can just try out most hobbies I want to explore at DMS, before diving in and buying a lot of tools.
More importantly some tools I will never be able to afford and DMS has many of them.

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Laser-cut earrings from patterns that I made for my Mom last Christmas. Now she wants me to put them on Etsy.

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I’m surprised I haven’t posted this yet to show and tell. I have been working on my own personal 3D printer a Mendel90 which I got duplicate parts when my class built the Mendel90 for 3D fab (called “Mendy”, in a way they would be brothers). I used the Panucatt Azteeg x3 controller, surestepr SD8825 drivers, and Helios build plate PCB. It required quite a bit of trips to the makerspace to fix a lot of the issues it had. Now it has been printing ABS like a dream even without an encloure, it is rock solid and the parts look pretty good. It’s been mostly printing it’s own upgrade parts like a y-belt tensioner, filament guide and cleaner, and part cooling fan (still working on that).

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I also have started a new 3D printing channel on Youtube called Mitch 3D. I will be doing more in depth review and tutorial videos for 3D printing and hope to make better and better quality videos.

I used the equipment in Digital Media (Sony RX-10, lavelier mic, box lights, Adobe suite) to produce the video, and it turned out pretty professional for my first time.

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I love that you are advertising for DMS with the shirt!

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Dallas Makerspace will probably be thrown around quite a lot in my videos. On this channel I will probably be going in depth specifically on the Polyprinters as well so we can have some video training to go along with the 3D fab training classes.

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Maybe someone can design a DMS background for use on Blue Screen. That would kinda cool and could be used by others that make videos.

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We’ve talked about setting up a paper roll backdrop to be used for this. I don’t mind the blue by itself. Sometimes using chromakey just to have a static image is kind of cheesy.

I really want to try to be like this guys videos, he has a background of a bunch of 3D printers.

Finished making this bowl today. Made from spalted silver leaf maple. Used the zing to laser etch a logo I made, “JW crafts”. Thanks again to @mkart for the gracious use of his expertise and tools. I’m calling this one “Grub Juice” due to the hidden gem I discovered within after I got sprayed in the the face while roughing it out.

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