The hexagons are piling up again on the workbench, which are leftovers from making hexagon pendants. We have hundreds of these slightly odd sized, but yet uniform bamboo hexagons. Ryan used a bunch for advertising tokens for his shop back in Week 30...I guess at week 61 it's my turn! My Instagram "following" feed is inundated … Continue reading 61: Hexagon Trivet
My first tech engraving experiment was quite a few years ago, when Brenn asked me to engrave his new Macbook with a geometric pattern. It turned out great, but I haven't really had the opportunity to carve things into technology since. That's why I was thrilled when a local friend, Reddy, asked me if I … Continue reading 60: Tech Engraving
When they were first announced, I knew fairly quickly that I wouldn't be attempting to collect amiibo figurines. Being a fairly stalwart Nintendo fan, though, I knew I'd be picking up a handful of the tiny Nintendo characters. I certainly didn't anticipate how hard it would be to get a hand on some of them, … Continue reading 59: amiibo Display Platform
Last week, Jen made some amazing costume jewelry recreations using five separate layers of acrylic. During the process, she recognized the frustration of perfectly aligning individual layers of laser-cut acrylic. Was cutting the layers first and then gluing them together the best option? Or could we stick the layers together first, and then cut out the outer … Continue reading 58: Lasering Layers
