Interesting Tech Projects
Coaster Sets Made Using CNC
For Christmas 2008 I made coaster sets as gifts. I took pictures at the time but only now am I getting around to uploading them. I hope they provide inspiration for someone else. If the subject matter for the coasters seems a bit odd or random, it’s because most of them were designs intended specifically for the people they were given to.
Each set contains four coasters and a holder and involved about seven hours of work. The wood is 1/4″ poplar. The inlay is Premo! polymer clay. The items were finished with Varathane. Cut using 1/8″ spiral upcut endmills and 0.0571″ endmills. Designs were made in Solidedge 2D and the toolpaths were generated in CamBam Plus. On the bottom are thin discs of cork, glued on with Titebond II.
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about 15 years ago
Hello, Andy. Beautiful work! Could you direct me to where I can learn about that premo clay process? Anybody can press clay into a cavity, but the designs you incorporated are just fantastic. Did you bake the clay after you pressed it in? More details requested please – !
Cheers->
Gordon
about 15 years ago
I recommend looking at http://www.glassattic.com for a large amount of information on polymer clay.
Yes, it has to be baked in the oven to harden it.