Its an enclosure for an electronic musical instrument.
My main work is cnc routing and silk screen printing, but someone asked me for the wood ends, so i did some CAD for the ends, and asked a machine to cut them...
This was the starting wood -
The end of that big crack became the black resin work on this -
Here is the rest of the job -
I do not do the cnc bending here, but the rest is my work. As in i buy in 8x4 sheets of anodised stock, CNC route it, then silk screen print it.
The cases in the middle were sprayed by me. Epoxy primer, and then a 2k top coat. And then the logo silk screened.
I had issues with the top coat - its one of the "industrial" 2k finishes, and is supposed to be matt, but it took me some messing about to get a true, uniform, matt finish, and not just a satin finish (I'm used to spraying gloss, and found the matt way harder to figure out).
But its done now.
Note, im much more of a machinist / metal worker than wood worker, and my ability with hand tools (beyond a spray gun i guess.... and im the one that anyone i know asks to plaster their house also) is limited to put it mildly.
This is my very first attempt at resin work. The job isnt perfect, as i was on the learning curve, but the job is a gift for someone anyway, who accepts the imperfections. Ive since learned from my mistakes and made these out of the same bit of wood -
(excuse the logos - i assure you that these are a specialist enough item that im really not trying to sell here!)
Thank you.
My main work is cnc routing and silk screen printing, but someone asked me for the wood ends, so i did some CAD for the ends, and asked a machine to cut them...
This was the starting wood -
The end of that big crack became the black resin work on this -
Here is the rest of the job -
I do not do the cnc bending here, but the rest is my work. As in i buy in 8x4 sheets of anodised stock, CNC route it, then silk screen print it.
The cases in the middle were sprayed by me. Epoxy primer, and then a 2k top coat. And then the logo silk screened.
I had issues with the top coat - its one of the "industrial" 2k finishes, and is supposed to be matt, but it took me some messing about to get a true, uniform, matt finish, and not just a satin finish (I'm used to spraying gloss, and found the matt way harder to figure out).
But its done now.
Note, im much more of a machinist / metal worker than wood worker, and my ability with hand tools (beyond a spray gun i guess.... and im the one that anyone i know asks to plaster their house also) is limited to put it mildly.
This is my very first attempt at resin work. The job isnt perfect, as i was on the learning curve, but the job is a gift for someone anyway, who accepts the imperfections. Ive since learned from my mistakes and made these out of the same bit of wood -
(excuse the logos - i assure you that these are a specialist enough item that im really not trying to sell here!)
Thank you.
