Past Work - Block Wave 3
My recent "Flutter" project got me thinking - how about making one in mirror polished stainless steel? I could chop up a piece of box section, cap each piece in a way that built-in a 10 degree twist. I decided to try a fairly small-scale version to start with....
 | Project completed on 26 June 2017 | |||
 | I made 160 end caps from 3.5-mm-thick plywood, using a laser cutter - that's 80 top and 80 bottom caps. Designing the caps in Rhino and then laser cutting them (see photo) meant it was fairly fast and accurate. I was able to rotate the small locating holes 10 degrees in the bottom caps, building in a twist. | |||
 | Here's the completed top caps. The central hole enabled me to thread the cubes on to a 4-mm-dia threaded bar. The two little holes created the built-in twist. | |||
 | I cut nails and glued them into the bottom caps, using the top caps as a temporary way of ensuring the nails would be vertical. | |||
 | I bought a 2-m length of 25-mm stainless steel box section, cut it into 25-mm lengths, ground off all the edges and then got them mirror polished by a specialist company. | |||
 | I made this box to prevent the polished cubes getting scratched. Sections of uncapped box section are on the right, ones with top caps glued in place are on the left. | |||
 | I'm pleased with the end result. I love the way the reflections make it look as though you can see inside the cubes. I've uploaded a video of it on Youtube - here's the link to it: https://youtu.be/LPSd9qH8jDY | |||