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.