Pop Up Card Stands
The latest prototype pop up card stands! Made from maple, cherry and walnut ply, a magnet-reactive coating on the inner surface allows small neodymium magnets to hold a card in place.
Glowforge Table Ikea Hack
My original plan for the Glowforge was to have it on a low dolly that could roll under my high work table, even after the later addition of the air filter. Since it is in almost daily use, it has mostly just remained sitting in the middle of the studio floor so that it can vent out the window.
I also ran into issues with the machine shaking itself on certain kinds of cuts, especially those with spiral movements and, having that mess up the cut.
So, I came up with a plan to move some things around to free up a spot by the window for a sturdier table that incorporates a little storage.
The original idea for this Ikea hack comes from a 2013 post by Jonathan Fong. I know that several other Glowforge users have done basically the same thing.
I made my table only four layers so that it would still be at a reasonable height when the air filter eventually gets added. It’s still at a great height for use now and, has added three extra layers of flat storage, which has been at a premium since the new machine arrived.
The shelf panels seem to be hollow core except for the mount points for the legs at the four corners. I noticed while adding the extra set of center legs to the lower tier that the screws were really not going into anything particularly solid. I think they will still help support the weight some, though.
Ikea no longer has the longer legs that Jonathan Fong used for his table but, I didn’t particularly want that extra height anyway.
After the bottom, I glued the legs of each subsequent layer to the one below with construction adhesive. I used a metal construction level to keep everything square and level as I assembled it. Then, I left everything to dry for about 24 hours.
This was a great upgrade. It was about $110 USD in parts and, took a couple hours to build. It freed up a lot of floor space as well as providing some much more efficient flat materials storage. It’s also a lot more solid than my original wheeled dolly.
Snowflake Mandala Celtic Knot Rubbing
Have you ever been making something and, suddenly had an idea for an entirely different thing to do with it? Blackwing graphite pencil rubbing on rice paper of my Snowflake Celtic knotwork mandala design laser-etched in Baltic birch.
Fishhugger Acrylic Stand-Up Logo
I am working on some identity photos for some friends and, thought a three-dimensional representation of their colorful logo might help with staging what we want.
This was a quick project, probably under an hour total and, came out great. It’s 3 layers of 1/8″ thick acrylic, bonded with acrylic cement. The middle layer is slotted into the elliptical transparent base.
The Fishhugger logo is very closely based on a petroglyph thought to be of an ancient fisherman.
Westward Ho Origamic Architecture Pop Up Card
There have been a lot of changes in downtown Phoenix in the last few years. A lot of history remains. I thought it would be fun to make a pop up design of a local building or two. So, I had a go at the Westward Ho.
The Westward Ho is a landmark of downtown Phoenix. The hotel with office space and restaurants was built in 1928 and, remained the tallest building in Arizona until 1960. The steel tower and antenna were added in 1949 to broadcast the first television station in Phoenix. The building was converted to housing for the elderly and mobility-impaired in 1980.
Keyboard.io Logo Twisted Crest Pop Up Card
Another one of the twisted-crest style origamic architecture pop up cards I did early last year. This is modeled on the logo for Keyboard.io, which makes a really great heirloom-grade ergonomic keyboard (the Model 01). This one was done on the new Glowforge, which made some of the finer details a lot easier.
