00727, Macro

Recently took apart a nice DVD recorder and snatched the motors and lenses.

This is what happened to the lenses:

They're in a plastic enclosure that is formed to clip on to my phone, so the lens sits right over the lens. Works a treat:

00726, Brick walls

I'm testing out how the CNC machine will cut brick walls out of foamcore as per David Neat's website.

David's blog was so informative and interesting (for me, at least), that I bought his book form Amazon. It's one of the few reference books that I've bought recently that I actually bother to read.

So here, I've used Illustrator to create the brick patterns and then exported as SVG to allow the CNC machine to cut it. Then it's on to painting.

Totally worked.

00725, Easel

An easel for an artist's birthday present. Adjustable for height using a system of magnets and wooden battens.

THe CNC'd adjustment handles are a perfect fit for hands. You just want to turn them cos you can.

00724, City blocks for X

I'd missed the blessing/christening of a friend's son and so, a year on, I decided to make a set of building blocks for him in the city blocks style.

Oak box with birch ply face, CNC carved faces for the blocks and lid. Magnetic catch to give the lid a nice "click" into place and hold it closed. Utile city blocks, lightly oiled.

00723, Welding

Just got a welder - first up, some frames for my mum's garden, so she can support the plants before they fall over under their own weight in late spring.

00722, Boards together

For my 50th, I asked some of the people I'd lent or given backgammon boards to bring them round for the party.

We only played on one of them - I just wanted to see them all together.

00721, Shove piggy shove 2

Inspired by the simple makeaday game "shove piggy shove", this is a posh, digitally assisted remake. The original was just a slab of old marine ply. This is 18mm birch ply, CNC cut with Utile scoring marker lines (nice) and arduino controlled LCD screens with buttons to increment and decrement the scores.

A present for Dan.

It's basically a combination of shove hapenny and shuffleboard, with a player on either end of the board:

00720, Choppers

Chopping boards - just big bits of wood, innit.

Seasoned oak boards, CNC inlaid with initials in utilie, lightly oiled:

00719, Wooden cities

Man, this is going to go on and on.

CNC city blocks.

Super nice and very easy to make, once the design is sorted.

00718, Wooden chainwheel

This is still from a while back.

It's for a bikey. Clearly he really loves bikes.

Anyhoo, it's an oak chainring with a utilie jockey wheel.

Admittedly really very niche :)

00717, Tree

An ongoing project is to make lots of boxes with things in. They'll go on a wall in the office I work in, but would equally be at home on any interior flat vertical surface with enough space.

Unsurprisingly.

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