Too High! CNC sample images.

Eyewear Render

The rendering of the eyewear is not so much different from the wireframe, and there is it's strength. The entire piece can be 3D printed with ABS plastic, which would allow a small amount of flexibility to a one-piece design.

The glasses have been made to fit perfectly behind my ears and be supported by my nose. Would the eyewear be made of metal, it would likely be too heavy to be comfortable, and slip down the bridge of my nose.

Here the top view of the glasses are visible; there are no joints, and is meant to be one solid piece of material. While being somewhat retro, I wanted to make something that would be somewhat protective, and that couldn't be done with wide open lenses.

I also wanted a design that wouldn't require replacement parts, should a piece break. Being one solid piece means a greater structural integrity against damage. Of course, the flip side to this is that should some part break, repairs would be more difficult.

I fully intended this piece to be able to be 3D printed in a variety of plastics, regardless of rigidity or weight (determined by internal structure), but it could also be cast in a variety of materials, such as bronze or aluminum. As such, there are no off-the-shelf parts, just raw material forced to take shape.

More eyeslits!

Because there weren't enough before.

To digitize the glasses to this point, all I had to do was take measurements between the points highlighted below, as well as the height;

I didn't really have troubles drawing them in space, but since my GPU went through a driver update, the visuals have been coming through rather strangely. I'll revert to the old drivers for the time being and see if that fixes things.

I've got to make joints for the glasses so they can fold... or maybe I should make them solid? We'll see. I'll try both.

NO TAPE FOR YOU; Eyewear Adventures

I forgot my tape.

But hey, I have the basic cutout of what I want.

I screwed up the length of the earpiece first time around; above you can see my changes.

Well, here is how it stands for now. Will reinforce everything with duct tape tomorrow morning!

CNC Sample Concept Design

Talking about fractals, Mike Doborski and I have decided to go with a version of a design he had attempted previously; here is the current iteration of the design.

Kind of sun-like! The radial points will have to be smoothed, although we'll see how this turns out in CAM first.

Digitized Knife!

Rhino is perhaps the most annoying program I have used to create a complex blade shape! However, once I understood why I was being limited, it was easy enough to remodel the blade how it was intended. Without further ado, the pictures!

This was a very fun project to attempt! It's made it more clear how I would go about making my own custom designs in Rhino, in the future.

Digitized knife... almost.

Well I have to say this was a very overwhelming week, and resulted in an underwhelming object.

Everything has been drawn, although some final adjustments need to be made... more updates to come.

Digitized knife! And not the one you thought!

Welp, while I wanted to work on a particular knife for this project, I made the mistake of misplacing said knife after taking the original photos. I have given up the search for the time being, and instead will deconstruct the Cold Steel Black Talon II.

This knife has some excellent curavture not seen on many blades out there-- the closest historical equivalent to this would be the harvesting or pruning pattern of slipjoint. Other than the lock and blade, this knife has little in common from it's predessesor, including the number of parts inside.

This is a rough takedown of the knife, all screws, pins and washers accounted for. Below, you can see a scan that I then started to draw on top of. The screws and pins are simple enough that I don't feel the need to scan them into my drawings, as they can be measured very quickly and are not complex overall.

Here you can see how I've started my drawing; by creating a circle the same diameter as the pivot hole in the blade and centering them, I can then scale the image to match, meaning the rest of my drawings will be accurate to the original object.

And here is the beginning of the rest of the drawings.

Sorry for being late with this, I had really wanted to model the Sebenza. Maybe next time.

Vinyl Cut + Transfer

Welp, I forgot to take pictures of the entire process, but here is the file I used to get the cuts made;

And here is the vinyl after being peeled off the sheet and applied to some copper sheet, then  punched out on a disk, and sand-blasted.

 

Reverse Engineered Object... pocket knife!

The object I've chosen to recreate is a pocket knife manufactured by Chris Reeve, the Sebenza. It has won multiple awards over the years as one of the most well machined folding knives currently in production. Reeve, once a die and tool maker, exerts such exact tolerances that it is not unusual to see Sebenza's for sale for over $500 CAD. In total there are nearly 20 parts, including washers, thumbstud and handle spacers. As I want to produce my own folding knives in the future alongside the fixed blade knives I currently make, this seemed like an optimal choice.

Vinyl Rhino Drawings

Here are the original sketches for the images I've chosen;

And here are the Hatched and Curved versions of both!

Object Tattoo??

From chess to knives to chess again-- This concept has gone a ways.

 

First step was to take my original sketch into rhino, and trace everything out.

 

 When tracing I made use of circles and arcs first to make the general shape, and mirror it across the center-- I did not make my original design perfectly the first time.

 Here you can see the lines completed! But of course the cutter won't give us anything useful. So, I re-traced the lines into clear individualized segments, and then offset them.

Here you see the lines now that they've been offset....

And below, you can see them by themselves! This is how the individual stickers will look.

Sketches for Vinyl Tatoos

 The following concepts are ideas for vinyl cutouts in a 'tattoo' format. 

The first sketch is of my initials, J.L, which is currently being used as maker's mark on my work. 

This emblem is something that I've drawn many times since childhood. The very first time I drew it, it was not long after playing The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. I've had a fondness for the iconography used in the game since, and I think I initially wanted to make a sigil that wouldn't look out of place in such a world.

This hammer is another video-game based icon, from the PC game Thief, The Dark Project. This was a game I played with my father; The hammer was a symbol that represented ideas that were worth challenging.

These roughly depicts a real tattoo idea I've been considering; the writers pen, drafting pencil, stylus. Each is a given type of control over media that I have spent many years experimenting with and learning.

These last four are reiterations of designs for a project I was going to attempt last year. Chess pieces re-imagined.

Some changes will occur when the drawings are drawn in Rhino, although the overall designs will remain the same.