Week 7 - Casting and Molding

This week we are trying to program the new board that we made 2 weeks ago.

Decided to make simple shapes for necklaces. Since I need them relatively thin and that they are flat on both sides, I am making one-sided molds. More recently I have been interested in triangular shapes and designs and decided to pull inspiration from some Pagan triangular shapes and various triangular designs that I found online.

Made block and shapes in Fushion 360 (As in image below).

Had help from Arch staff to tansfer my CAD files to mastercam. They set up all the parameters to communicate with the Intelliteck for machining the wax block.

Some of my molds were too close to the edge, that the drill bit couldn’t get to them. So I manually scraped out one with a flat head screwdriver. There was another one I didn’t notice, so was present in the oomoo cast as seen in the picture.

Next, we casted into our oomoo molds. This was relatively straight forward since we followed the directions on the casting container.

I didn't try to cast the bottom right shap since the mold was not contained there. This is where the machining device did not have access to and I didnt catch this by eye to scratch out manually myself.

Since these shapes were fairly bland on their own. I decided to decolate them with parts found from watches by adhearing with super glue. Final product below.