Tbh the glue degraded pretty quickly but the bangle is still here:)
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Tbh the glue degraded pretty quickly but the bangle is still here:)
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The Formlab links were less to try and tempt you to the dark side of 3d printing and more to give info on which dyes are currently being used. Honest! :D
Just hoiked out my copy: It has a page on sanding and sawing (advocating hacksaw, bandsaw and disc sander); a page on laminating acrylic (steel torque plates + bake @ 170C, no adhesive); a simple drilled, sawn & filed cross; eardrops from laminated acrylic and an acrylic cabochon from laminate. Nothing desperately complex, admittedly.
If you're using a heatgun to bend acrylic, it's handy to have some formers to stick it into or around - MDF works. I've got some small photo backgrounds that I made that way. You can press form thinner sheets (heated, of course) using mouse pads in a press or vice; I used to use a lot of Kydex in up to 3mm thickness using this process. Never tried it with clear acrylic - Kydex is an ABS/acrylic blend - but it could be interesting. Flame polishing edges takes a light touch with a torch and you aren't likely to get it to work with a sawn edge, it'll need to be sanded first (otherwise it tends to char quite quickly after melting).
(And thank you :) )