Please post a picture & description in this thread of anything you are working on this month at the 'Space.
Lots of bitchin’ projects at DMS happen all the time, but most of our fellow members don’t get to see our radical stuff! Post here to share the interesting things you are doing @ Dallas Makerspace this month! small craft project large CNC router project building a table 3D printing a cosplay prop science experiments
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@Anette_Henningson made me an awesome silver and black opal pendant with silver clay for Christmas!
She sculpted the silver clay, fired it and then used the hydroflux torch to solder the bezel and the laser welder was used to connect the tentacle that is the bail.
Beautiful! One of the earliest ideas I had for a Science Sunday project was to try to make silver clay from scrap silver. When I brought it up at a jewerly committee meeting a while back, the consensus at the time was this was unnecessary since casting was better in every way. And that this would be a distraction since casting was already a main focus.
Would love to hear thoughts about the experience working with silver clay. Is making silver/copper clay something worth considering revisiting?
I can see why making it might not be of interest to them, it comes in a bunch of different formulas and until very recently all of them were more labor intensive to fire compared to casting.
Now there is a formula that can be fired with a hand torch, I think that changes the interest level significantly. It’s very instant gratification now, just sculpt, dry, fire and clean off the scale.
That said, this particular piece was kiln fired, pieces with more mass work better that way I think.
Haha! You make it sound so easy. For those who have never worked with silver clay, there is a whole lot of both talent and work involved in the “sculpt” part. Great job, @Anette_Henningson!
So one of my professional magician friends is getting a lifetime achievement award at an invitational magic conference we are going to in NYC in April . Rather than a boring old trophy, I am making a wresting championship belt. This is 3d printed in matte Black pla, warped to a dome shape with a heat gun, then covered a filler to mimic rough casting errors. It was then sprayed metallic gold then antiqued with gold rub and buff . Was going for vintage brass casting and I am happy with the look . Now on the leather work…
Over the holidays, and before the recent cold snap, I made a few pens and a perfume pen kit for some of my wife’s friends. Regrettably, I didn’t photo everything, but here are a few of the pens I made. (A total of eight pens and the perfume pen Perfume Chrome Pen Kit at Penn State Industries)
Two of these are made from an oak burl that a friend of mine, from when I worked at Rockler, gave me. The wood is a very distinctive burl he harvested from a tree on a friend’s ranch. The other is made from red mallee burl. I bought a nice big red mallee burl a while back and I cut some pen blanks from it. This is one of them. All the pens are made from a cuban pen kit from Rockler.
I have plans next week to make a few more pens and a letter opener. I have an extensive collection of pen blanks of some very exotic woods, but my next pen is going to be made from some Texas Mesquite that was harvested from another friend’s ranch.
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