OK so it's a considerable time since I updated the site. In truth I didn't think anyone was using it until I checked out the analytics a few weeks ago. For some strange reason most of the viewers seem to be in Venezuela but what the hell - an audience is an audience.
Anyhow I've been busy over the past couple of years with new projects and new challenges. Hopefully you'll find something of interest here and please, as always, let me know if you like (or dislike) what you see.
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I sawed a rectangular section from an old bread box (any old box would do) then bought a pre-cut piece of white perspex which I fitted as a lid with a length of piano hinge. The hinge is glued to the perspex and screwed to the box in case you're interested.
I chose a piece of fairly thick 10mm perspex since I wanted to be able to cut glass directly on the working surface but you could probably get away with a thinner (and cheaper) one for drawing and tracing. The box has been lined with cooking foil to give a better reflective surface and the sticky backed LED strip simply wound back and forth as shown in the pictures. Because the LEDs give off very little heat it's been possible to reduce the thickness of the overall box and the finished thing is only just over 2" deep I'm very pleased with the result although I haven't really used it in earnest yet and, whilst it may have cost me perhaps £20 in total, it's stronger, brighter and larger than the ones available in the shops so meets my needs much better. I've been playing with cutting glass tumbler bases but at the moment I've absolutely no idea what to do with them. I've managed to mount them securely in wood using grab adhesive and they do look lovely hung when the light catches their patterns but there must be something better for them. The best suggestion I can come up with at the moment is to use them as a seat for a wooden bench but I would be really interested to hear from anyone with a better idea. Bear in mind that they can only be displayed from one side since the other side is the inside of the tumbler.
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