New lasercut spiral designs

[mattbell]

I finished three new laser-cut spiral designs in the two days prior to Maker Faire.  I pushed on several new things -- intricate boundaries, using multiple types of wood in the same design, handling large numbers of pieces, and working with a new, bigger type of veneer.  All in all, it's really impressive that all three designs worked out more or less flawlessly. 

Design 1:
 
 


Design 2:
 

Design 3:
 

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Here's a design I messed up last week.  (It was a rather esoteric mistake involving the fact that long thin wood strips tend to bend a lot when exposed to a water-based glue on one side, but the mistake cost me about 4 hours so I wasn't thrilled)  This is a picture of the good part:


Some other photos of older designs:

An attempt at something lower-contrast: 
 

Lacewood (it's amazingly shimmery)
 
A runway view of a super-intricate one:



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Here is a step-by-step photoessay showing the assembly process:

 
 
 
 
 


And another one:
 

Comments

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Really beautiful!

[eccentrific.livejournal.com]

Number two is awesome.

[happyinmotion.livejournal.com]

One day, when I have more money than I know what to do with, I shall have to commission you, coz this is awesome.

[djdigit.livejournal.com]

Wow! I like number three the most, aesthetically, but number two has serious wow-factor. You're getting really good at this!

[nikitanopants.livejournal.com]

I always love seeing the new laser cut designs. They're just awesome, but so far I think the shiny lacewood one above is one of my favorites. Beautiful work on all of them though.

[uke.livejournal.com]

Lovely work!