Other What did you fab up today? A thread for the home fabricators!

[Vumad]

How much time do you have into them at this stage? Are you planning to paint or lacquer them too?

At 5 minutes each, it would take around 5 hours to engrave a name into all of those on a machine like mine. If it wasn't so close to Christmas I would offer to help out but there's no way I could get it done in time and back to you.

That's a really cool idea though.

I marked the table for the cut so after the first cut I just slid the next 54 cuts to that line on the table and cut. Each 10ft board makes 11 blocks. The game is 54 blocks so 1 spare, 55. once the table is set up, it takes about 20 seconds to line up and cut a block.

Routering the blocks using the router table only takes 30 seconds per block once the table is set up. It's pre adjusted so I just run all 18 sides around. It's fast.

I am probably not going to brand them but the method for that would be to heat up a piece of 1/4"X1"xlength of word bar stock with a torch and heat brand the block. I probably won't do that.

I'll probably sand the blocks with a 5" disc sander before I stain them.

I'll probably stain them with my hvlp gun.

I think I could make the whole game in 2-4 hours depending how how motivated I was. I usually work slow because I work for fun.

 

[speedysprocket]

A laser could engrave each one in a second. You would be paying a shop to do that for you though

You can use a soldering iron to engrave them, too...

 

[Pablo]

Instead of engraving why not get a branding iron and burn a logo or design on them? I bet @Scraggly could whip one out as a project for reasonable. Either way, cool gift.

 

[Nate_D]

Nothing supercool, but figured I would post a picture or two. Setting up the sealing bath on my small anodizing line. Running two 1300 watt immersion heaters infront of a bilge pump to circulate the bath. Immersion heaters are being controlled by a PID and SSR. Need to rig up a small case fan to cool the ssr heatsink.

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[Scraggly]

Crock pot lid handle Broke. I improvised.

 

[Scraggly]

It will be getting a nice polished aluminum one soon as I have a chance to turn one.

 

[OCD Solutions]

I built a couple jigs and wrote the code needed to punch out the holes in my ebox grommets.

And it was all going good till I forgot to lock the quill.

 

[OCD Solutions]

Got bored watching a movie with the wife so I whipped up the code to redo a couple jet holders. I did them manually a few years back but the CNC does such a cleaner job and the depths are even now so all of the jets are positioned so that you can actually grab them.

Perfect finish to my carb kit!

 

[Scraggly]

I tried this before with 3d printed molds and although tasty not as pretty. We are putting together baskets for x mas for my sisters and husbands. Homemade wine, salsa, jelly, gummy candy and a few other things. Just popped these from the mold and I'm very happy. A few gummy bears lost there life in the extraction.

Now on to Legos

 

[SkiDiggity]

The test run @ 48v. Will have 60v soon and possibly a much larger motor in the works. When lipo's drop significantly in price I will do a stand up.

Put some big ole tires on that thing and bring it to pismo next time!

 

[Vumad]

Giant Jenga is not done but I made progress on a box.

 

[Vumad]

So people who know me know I have an x2, that I've had it for about 5 years, and somehow in that time I still have it all in pieces all the time.

Well, those who know me well, know I have a super power. Superman can fly, aquaman can talk to fish, and I have the incredible ability to turn a small project into a major production. Oh, I am also as good at talking as superman is at jumping buildings, but I think that one was already pretty obvious...

Anyway, my giant Jenga set is still not done. What should be as simple as cutting $25 worth of 5 10ft 2x4 into 54 individual 10.5" pieces has turn into quite the feet of engineering and art.

At this point in the project...
-I've used a dewalt compound mider saw and table to cut the pieces. ($25 wood)
-A drill press to machine an adapter plate to hold my router to a new table ($5 materials, $50 table)
-1/4" routered all of the pieces ($20 bits)
-A set of hand drawn blueprints to design a box
-A 1/2" sheet of plywood, Home Depot cut it ($20)
-2 sizes of hole saws and a jig saw table to cut the handles and shapes out of the cut plywood.
-A 5" orbital sander to clean up everything
-Wood glue and a pneumatic nailer to assemble my box.
-1/8" router on the box
-A variety of templets, edges, pencils/markers, and tapes to make patterns on my box
-A hvlp gun and compressor with wood stain and clear polyurethane to stain the box

This project should finally be done by tomorrow... Lol

 

[DAG]

I like how the box doubles as a stand. Awesome job

 

[Lumpy]

I think you should have made the box to fit the stack so you can just flip it over and pull the box off and you're ready to roll, just like the original jenga.

 

[Vumad]

I think you should have made the box to fit the stack so you can just flip it over and pull the box off and you're ready to roll, just like the original jenga.

I agree, but what @DAG said.

The box also incorporates very necessary handles. There is a small weiht difference between mine and the original game. The completed assembly is very heavy. 40-50#

The game height is 27" and, if i recall correctly, starts at about 41" when on the stand.

 

[Quinc]

@Vumad That set is awesome! I bet you could sell them on etsy.

 

[Lumpy]

@Vumad That set is awesome! I bet you could sell them on etsy.

I bet people wouldn't pay what he'd have to charge to make money. Think about how many hours it took him then multiply that by how much one's time is worth. Then add materials and equipment and electricity costs. Way I see it, that's about a 200 dollar jenga set.

 

[Quinc]

I bet people wouldn't pay what he'd have to charge to make money. Think about how many hours it took him then multiply that by how much one's time is worth. Then add materials and equipment and electricity costs. Way I see it, that's about a 200 dollar jenga set.

I bet people would pay 200$. Or sell it in the Skymall catalog.

 

[Vumad]

Small companies sell them from $70-150 raw, no stain. Im not sure how the cheaper ones are boxed.

To make just the pieces and the box is $40 in materials (knowing you can make 2 boxes from 1 sheet of plywood). It would take me 1-1.5 hours to cut and router the pieces. The box takes about 1-1.5 hours to construct. im sure i could do it all faster if i did it assembly line style.

This set however, probably has 10 hours. Even if you took out the design time for a production flow, the artwork and stain took a huge amout of time. I bet i have 6hours in artwork and stain alone. All of the artwork is hand drawn, measured and perfectly symetric.

Look at the grid lines for "giant jenga". It was the cut with a razor knife and straight edge, stained, tape removed, remarked with sharpie and a straight edge. I am currently recoating it with a gloss poly urathane since the tape areas are otherwise unprotected.

I dont think id want to recreate this exact set for $200.

 

[Vumad]

I just weighed it. 62 pounds.