Nice work Carlos.
Carlos wrote:Anyone else in the GR community making things?
Well, maybe.
I own a hybrid art/fabrication studio, in converted home/premises (which yes I rent, I'm not wealthy, so basically your typical garage/basement but not dank. Rates for commercial premises/units can get strawberry floated);- it's my main job and I started out borrowing the cutting plotter at one of my earlier jobs (art uni) to make the GRcade shop things (learnt a lot) and then bought my own (same model) on a loan. But in fairness it's been a cornerstone of my life since I drew on walls with both hands because strawberry float it or made paper castles without any glue or scissors. It wasn't until around 2014 (I graduated in 2012) that I decided to get some equipment that wasn't a paintbrush or pen or multifunction printer for doing my paperwork... or just a computer. Because computers make me sad. CNC, Laser, cutting plotter and DTG / DTF / HTV garment printing and probably some other stuff I forgot. For example, I'm working on a candle mould at the moment in the shape of the pope.
It's a long story.
Sorry these are commercial IG posts but it is mostly stuff I just made for fun, it's my job and my craft;-that's the point of an art instagram account.
CNCWoods, plastics, soft metals, up to mild steel etc.
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I have since upgraded my Z-axis and to a set of stainless steel edge clamps. I made those clamps on the CNC. You need clamps to use a CNC so yeah that was a bit tricky... First job of any CNC owner is to make clamps for their CNC with their CNC.
LaserI don't have any footage of this yet as it's dangerous (meant to be paying attention or I'd potentially go blind) but this is the same one:
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Cutting Plotter(Etching masks, sign vinyl/decals, textile transfer media, card, acetate etc.
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DTGLight cotton garments, bags, cushion covers etc.
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I don't have post of the heat press at the moment but it's a Stahl's MaxxPress 280 x 380mm made in the USA.
It would take me all day to post 10 years of work so I won't dominate the thread.
Here's an Untitled Goose sign I have since finished.
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I made this for myself but have since shipped two.
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Decals
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I have someone opening a minimalist/modern Thai mini market with games soon so I will be proposing a full size arcade cabinet and bench top version in the next couple of weeks or so. I've been meaning to ask for some pointers. Basically my landlord asked me if I knew how he could get a Pacman Arcade cabinet and I told him that would be difficult in working conditions... then I talked about the existence of retro arcade cabinet making firms and then thought about it some more and realised I could just do it myself. Actually I made this raspberry pi "MegaPi" which is a Raspberry Pi 3 with an actual Megadrive controller socket (but only a few buttons work lol).
I make a lot of things by hand and draw/paint/sculpt and sometimes combine these processes. Unfortunately, I am very bad at uploading my photography, so a lot of my best work is just completely missing from the Internet (and sometimes I forget to take pictures before I give it to the client at all). I am very busy doing commercial work and of course there are various copyright issues with game related stuff. But several members here own my work including the coveted Larger As In The Drink Larger pint glasses
(which indeed take a few hours each to make).
There are various other crappy photos/videos dotted about the place. I never seem to get the time to edit them.
With various traditional art/craft and modest (read: bad) electrical or mechanical engineering I can potentially make anything but I am mostly focused on garment printing at the moment.
Edit: I forgot a few things.
I've made furniture, tables (including the enclosure for the CNC in the video and a woodworking bench) with woodworking tools, so chopsaw, circular saw, jigsaw, I recently added a bandsaw. And a lot of hand tools like chisels I use to finish work by hand.
It's this little one.
I basically use it for cutting down square stock for CNC from reclaimed hardwood and pine etc but also framing, trims and other stuff (you can free cut on it of course).
Oh and an extraction unit so I don't die of cancer.
Edit: oh and two vintage sewing machines I restored and electrified. A singer 99K and a brother. Here's one:
And an SLA 3D printer. So far I have printed these test things:
I'm going to do a bunch of Gryroids from animal crossing (my resin is going to expire, it's really messy and hazardous so I need to use it more... Maybe too many options).