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Cut Here Door - The Portal to Creativity.

Cut Here Door - The Portal to Creativity.
So, i work in a studio, we do alot of artworking, we're all creative types.

The actual studio is pretty nice, we have our own fridge, we all have decent computers, but recently we had the end wall put in place. Which for a few months has been rather bare.

I found this 'window cut outs' of some printed folder we had been doing, and thus, the Cut Here Door was invented.

I used a simple plumb line to get it all straight (a pair of hefty paper scissors, and some string)

I measured one of our doors for size, then went about sticking the small bits of card to the wall using double sided tape.

I then cut out a large pair of scissors from one of the folders to match.

-gmjhowe
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May 3, 2011. 11:42 AMZmathews says:
i already have some monsters and a converse sign on my walls in electrical tape and this would just look great across from my door! thanks
Jan 13, 2011. 4:03 PMthepelton says:
Somehow, this reminds me of the "Draw a door" scene in "Beetlejuice".
Dec 30, 2010. 3:34 AMBiggsy says:
hehehehe that's awesome
Dec 16, 2008. 7:57 AMvernors says:
one of the thinfgs that i always wanted to do it to instal a pointless button. :3
Feb 14, 2010. 8:20 PMDuct Tape Dude says:
same here! It would be humongus and I'd put it in the "game room" with masking tape on it andit would say DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON!!!
Dec 19, 2008. 10:12 AMLithium Rain says:
I have this humongous flat red switch from an ooooold computer (386, I think). I will install it as the switch to something awesome someday. I just can't figure out what. Maybe my car. Or a light switch. Hmm.
Dec 29, 2008. 2:39 PMGoodhart says:
A real panic button to siren or something ?
Dec 29, 2008. 4:15 PMLithium Rain says:
Ooo. Good idea! I can see it now. I'll get a siren, and a big flashing light...
Jan 16, 2009. 8:03 PMWafflicious says:
Bahahaha
Dec 17, 2008. 12:47 PMvernors says:
a big red button to be exact. pushing big read buttons are fun :3
Jan 24, 2009. 7:36 AMvernors says:
perfect!
Jan 26, 2009. 2:38 PMcrickle321 says:
Not even 2 hours after reading your comment I found the image while researching something unrelated.... It was fate. _
Jan 27, 2009. 1:04 PMvernors says:
make it. all you need is some acrylic, PVC pipe, some spray paint and maybe a stencil.
Dec 17, 2008. 7:24 PMkelseymh says:
Is this what you have in mind?
Dec 19, 2008. 10:09 AMLithium Rain says:
Is that from a place you've worked on? Or did you ~~steal it~~ do a google image search?
Dec 19, 2008. 10:49 AMkelseymh says:
It's from SLAC. I stole the image from one page of the safety training program we all take in order to work there.
Dec 19, 2008. 10:58 AMLithium Rain says:
We need pictures of SLAC. Actually, IDK about anyone else. I need pictures of SLAC. I'm suffering from SLAC imagery deficiency. :D
Dec 19, 2008. 11:13 AMkelseymh says:
Dec 19, 2008. 11:42 AMLithium Rain says:
Hahaha!

Oh, the humiliation...sorry, Nacho...
Dec 19, 2008. 11:52 AMkelseymh says:
And I didn't even set rudeness level 5 :-)

Hopefully some of those pictures will be useful to you. I sort of like the "Virtual Visitors Center", but it's mostly words and drawings.
Jun 27, 2010. 12:54 AMzack247 says:
wow, to read the incredibly small text, i had to zoom in 400%!
Dec 19, 2008. 12:23 PMLithium Rain says:
Go ahead and set it-Nacho kindly sanitized level 5. ;P

They are nice! Thank you. :-)
Dec 18, 2008. 2:33 PMvernors says:
sort of only 1 switch, bigger, and pointless.
Dec 18, 2008. 4:16 PMkelseymh says:
Well, pointless is in the eye of the beholder :-)

There's technically only one button on our beam-stops: The middle one is a key control to reset it, and the top one is a red light so that security knows which one was pressed (in the 5+ miles worth of beamline tunnels).

Check out McMaster-Carr= items 66185K61 (pictured) and 66185K71. Pricey, but I think they're what you need for your next project :-)
Dec 17, 2008. 7:00 PMGoodhart says:
revise an Easy Button, only use your own voice chip and recording LOL
Dec 28, 2008. 3:10 PMmg0930mg says:
Just use the Evil button i'ble. I should so do that. I will!
Dec 28, 2008. 3:40 PMGoodhart says:
Or Kipkay's instructable....I would like to again make the voice recorder from scratch (with the chip) but it is getting harder to find one that is not a surface mount (SOT) package.....I can't solder those
Dec 28, 2008. 4:38 PMmg0930mg says:
Oh. Kipkay's i'ble. I'll have to look for that.
Dec 28, 2008. 4:54 PMGoodhart says:
There is a link in the comments on the Evil button ible
Dec 28, 2008. 5:41 PMmg0930mg says:
Oh it's not an i'ble but a video. OK, thanks goodhart.
Dec 29, 2008. 7:20 AMGoodhart says:
True, but from there I believe he links to his instructions too, right?
Dec 29, 2008. 1:33 PMmg0930mg says:
I don't know, I didn't watch it. Kipkay should make an i'ble about it. HINT HINT. KIPKAY WHERE ARE YOU?
Dec 29, 2008. 2:42 PMGoodhart says:
Sep 22, 2009. 2:21 PMwenpherd says:
I always wanted to somthing like this but insted build a door that goes to nowhere.
May 24, 2009. 11:24 AMebayebay1 says:
can u make a template
May 24, 2009. 11:00 AMebayebay1 says:
can u give a template
Dec 16, 2008. 9:46 AMRaisedByRobots says:
I always wanted to cut a shape in a wall between rooms that looks like a cartoon character blasted through it
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I am a British Graphic Designer, when I am not working I spend my time making an array of projects, from electronic instruments and chessboards to cyberpunk rifles and steampunk props. If you have an...
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