We gain inspiration from our fellow makers. Post a description and a photo or 2 of anything you are working on this month at the 'Space (or wherever) in this thread!
It can be anything from a small craft project to a large CNC router project to building a table to 3D printing to a science experiment and so much more. Most of us never get to see the cool things people do at DMS all the time.
Posting here could inspire others to make something, helps our Public Relations team provide a look at what can be done at DMS on a blog post or other social media (with attribution to each maker of course).
Please try to include the following on each post, to help make for richer social media content:
a quality PHOTO
a notation about WHAT you have made
WHO you are (for attribution on the blog & other social media)
Unfortunately I put too thick of a layer on the bottom (at least I’m guessing that’s what caused it), so there’s a hairline crack the whole way across the bottom, so I can’t use it to drink out of, but at least I found a cool glaze combo I want to play more with, and the mug is still excellent for holding all my sharpies and pens
Bringing a replacement part for my new Miata RF to market: a carbon fiber side panel replacement for a part that comes from the factory as a pretty cheap looking piece of plastic in piano black.
The part is made out of carbon fiber + epoxy, and is an OEM fit replacement. Chris W. helped reverse engineer the original part and create the ‘pattern’ off of which a mold and then part was made off of. Most of that works was done outside of the space, but random bits of tooling were made at the space. The brackets were prototyped at the space in 3d fab, and some of the photography was done there too.
A while back, I got a free butcher-block style coffee table from a neighbor who was moving out. It was too big for our needs, so I lopped 15” off of each end, routed the cuts to match the edge profiles, fabricated new legs for the cutoffs, and made two casual end tables for our couch - all for the cost of a couple of 2x4’s, some screws, and a bit of stain.
I made a “heat transfer to performance tshirt.” Siser easyweed stretch htv, onto an old 100% poly c9 branded tshirt. 325 degree f, 2 seconds to release backing, then 20 seconds to perm fuse.
Cut on cameo at force 22 speed 5, super slow and careful weed. Might try force 25.
While not done at the DMS, we have the tools to do so. Thanks @CaryF300 and @talkers for your mentorship.
The silver ones I had to order from Woodturningz.com; they’re listed under their “Diamond Series” of inlace acrylester. There are multiple colors - I’ve seen the black version at Rockler in Richardson.
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