Wednesday, August 26, 2009

pearl clasps



These are some pictures of some of the early work with the CNC mill. These were designed by one of my colleagues, Yevgeniya Kaganovich as pieces to be engraved and pocketed for a couple pieces of new jewelry. She created a necklace from these scaled and repeated pearl clasp forms. After showing one of our students, Calen Curley, how to use Rhino, he did the drawings and he and I used RhinoCAM to write the g-code for the cutting operations. This was the beginning stages of drawing, programing, and running the mill. I learned a lot from this operation.

2 comments:

Felice Luftschein said...

Great work! I'm glad to see people experimenting with milling directly in metal for jewelry. I can now go from design to finished prototype in a few hours.

I'd suggest using the non-foam (that is just double stick tape) carpet tape - it will hold the material just as securely (assuming you debur the cut sheet edges) and truer to the mounting surface.

Nick

Frankie Flood said...

Thanks Nick.

I have switched to the non foam type tape and you are correct that it works way better. I used that on the gas tank badges that I made after doing these clasps.

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