I tried Etsy first and got nothing. I tried Folksy and got lots of views but not a single sale. I have now rephotographed everything, pulled all my various bits in boxes out and finished those that...
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I tried Etsy first and got nothing. I tried Folksy and got lots of views but not a single sale. I have now rephotographed everything, pulled all my various bits in boxes out and finished those that...
Sorry, we may have gone a little off topic here....
I started a bit later on the good old PIC16F84. I have a similar assortment from ATtiny4 up to Altera cycloneIII FPGA (which admittedly I have never done anything useful with yet. The Actel FPGAs won...
Yes. Good old Arduino is what I used as I wanted a quick solution, is plenty fast enough and I could get a 16x2 LCD "shield" with buttons off ebay for crazy cheap which did for the front panel.
Yes it is a little more complex. The idea is basically a mechanically actuated scratch start TIG welder with arc timer. The magic is in the timing. The order of actions is something like: turn on...
I had the same problem a while back. My solution was to put a piece of paper round my triblet and then slip the engagement ring over it and then draw around the ring onto the paper. I then removed...
Sorry, a bit new to this area, whom would you call the main companies?
For what it's worth, I looked at these machines a while ago and decided to build my own . It works really well on steel and stainless steel but I found working on silver it was far from perfect. The...
Yes I have seen videos of the Roland machines that do that. Do you know the names of any companies that use them and I could try?
The cooksons one arrived today. I have now put up the whole story and pics of all the rings on my blog:
http://peterblacksart.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/3d-its-like-2d-but-with-more-d/
Today I received another ring, This one from i.materialise.com, printed in silver/high gloss
photographed next to the NextDayWax one
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(the right-hand one)
It took quite a while to...
The one from cookson is in 18k gold rather than palladium (They didn't give me any other options so I assume they don't do other metals)
Blender is a bit of an odd beast. I just bought a book on it and followed a few video tutorials. I have a background in parametric CAD for engineering which was of limited help as there is a big...
Here is my first 3D printed ring (well 3D printed wax and cast) just after its initial polish with the silicone wheels
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Design was done in Blender and the print and cast was done by...
Thanks for the detailed response Peter,
Yes, the air graver with palm control would be nice but at $2.6k its a bit pricey for me and although the pound to USD is quite good at the moment I would...
Apologies for the long rambling post.
A number of projects recently have required a bit of engraving or careful hammering so I am contemplating buying or constructing some form of powered...
How about taking a lego brick and giving it a coat of spray paint to make it ever so slightly larger (you may need to mask off the tops of the nubs (can't remember the correct term for them) as they...
I have had very mixed results with tumbling. I use the UKGS mixed shot too and have been contemplating how to get a better finish. Industrial tumbling and vibration polishing can give you and almost...
That is one of my reserve plans somewhere around plan-F but I would prefer to have a proper one if I can find one. One of the "budget" Indian imports is all I need really, I can fettle it to get it...
fair point. I have tried a bit of engraving (I only own 1 graver so far) and found that using one of these made life a lot easier but I felt it needed more mass. I am currently in the process of...
I am looking for an engraving block vice. I see that Cooksons don't do them, Sutton do the GRS low profile and micro vices, the micro looks a little small for what I want and the low profile is about...
hmm strange, lets try that again
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It is a brooch. The back is hollowed out for weight (weighs bout 35g, would be twice that if solid) The nice thing with casting is that can all be done at the wax stage. Then I soldered the pin and...
I followed the profile on the SRS website. My kiln has a Stanford S316A controller so I just programmed the profile into it and pressed GO.
I have a magnetic stirrer somewhere. I want to see if that...
I got my kiln second hand off ebay relatively cheap as they are generally not postible itmes and you have to collect them the market for any one kiln is only those in your local area so they tend to...