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video Laser-cut Wood Marquetry
This video shows a wood marquetry project using Rhino CAD to set up files for laser cutting wood veneer from a photograph. The inspiration came from photographs I took at an e-waste recycling facility.
-I used Rhino to trace the photograph, then rotated, copied, and nested each individual part within my material work area.
-There are 145 pieces in each section, the first section was mirrored, then the pair of sections rotated 9 times create a total of 18 pie-shaped sections. There are 2,610 shapes in the entire piece. The smallest shape is 1/16” square
-The individual files were laser-cut on a 100 watt laser from 1/16" thick wood veneer.
-The wood parts were assembled using low-tack painters tape on the back, then taped with veneer tape on the front and glued in a vacuum bag using epoxy.
-The framing mat surrounding the artwork is also laser-cut.
The video compresses only 40 minutes of the assembly which actually took around 40 hours; I spent another 40 hours setting up the files for laser cutting and the entire project took about 120 hours.
This instructable is entered in a contest to win a Shopbot CNC router, and votes are most appreciated!
Click "vote" on the upper right of this page.
If I win the Shopbot, I would use the machine to cut and prototype my folding furniture which can be seen on my website www.christyoates.com
-I used Rhino to trace the photograph, then rotated, copied, and nested each individual part within my material work area.
-There are 145 pieces in each section, the first section was mirrored, then the pair of sections rotated 9 times create a total of 18 pie-shaped sections. There are 2,610 shapes in the entire piece. The smallest shape is 1/16” square
-The individual files were laser-cut on a 100 watt laser from 1/16" thick wood veneer.
-The wood parts were assembled using low-tack painters tape on the back, then taped with veneer tape on the front and glued in a vacuum bag using epoxy.
-The framing mat surrounding the artwork is also laser-cut.
The video compresses only 40 minutes of the assembly which actually took around 40 hours; I spent another 40 hours setting up the files for laser cutting and the entire project took about 120 hours.
This instructable is entered in a contest to win a Shopbot CNC router, and votes are most appreciated!
Click "vote" on the upper right of this page.
If I win the Shopbot, I would use the machine to cut and prototype my folding furniture which can be seen on my website www.christyoates.com
If you get a moment, feel free to drop by my site and poke around.
Cheers!
Matt
www.matthewlison.com
Your site is wonderful...i have never seen such designs before.
I think you need to ease off the Diet Coke some. I had to turn the sound off on my PC in order to watch the video too. When you went to the e-trash site did they let you grab as much as you wanted? I'd have backed my pickup truck up and left doing a wheelie! Seeing all of that scrap electronics was quite exciting.
I've been working on building a CNC router for quite some time now off and on. It won't be a ShopBot when I'm done but that's OK. I put articles on this site about some of the electronics I built for it. Most of it is obsolete now because you can buy it pre-assembled so cheaply anymore.