With some of my current non-MDF posts, I though it better to persuade everyone that I haven’t gone full redneck, still have fond memories and will continue to serve the MDF gods, albeit every second Sunday.
As a reminder, I’ve decided to import these smaller cousins of Dutchy’soversized Bigfoot, that I posted on LJ in Feb, 2022. While mine may imply a bigfoot, they are for stability purposes, though they can be removed when the two subjects want to get "flexible",
Didn’t realise back then, but they must be WOKE as they don’t burn fossil fuel and are totally cordless.
Unfortunately they are basically useless other than a quirky gift to someone you don’t like. While they may be used on a desk to put some light on the subject, after about 30 seconds they are moved out of the way into a corner till the battery runs out and the spiders take over.
Only cause I can, here is the 3DW model,
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Boy and Girls,
Inspired by Ross Leidy's projects on 17 & 25 Dec 2021, and further spurred on by WFJ on 30 Dec & 3 Jan
My primary objective was to create a cordless Man-Lamp. I wasn't after pretty but rather functional and designed my version in SketchUp (after getting the original model off Ross L.)…
What materialised on the above electronic paper seemed to rebel at the severance of that umbilical cord and my method of MDF lamination was disfigured by the spilling of excess CA and epoxy glue by the sticky subject matter… in English, after several modifications, finished up with Version 4
and he was named Adam…
After de-ribbing him, I thought I'd lay down an Eve so I can document some of the tricky processes for anyone dumb enough to try with a laser, CNC or the solid wood thrill seekers.
Trying to keep it small and portable to accommodate the light source, the overall dimensions of the pieces were nominally 12mm x 12mm x 'length' out of 3mm and 6mm MDF. Using my MDF layered lamination method, the leg consisted of 2×3mm pieces to captivate the nut and a 6mm piece,
To allow for articulation, the thigh and upper arms were laminated out of 2×6mm pieces. To ensure proper alignment, I made some jigs out of 3mm MDF
to correctly place the pieces during glue ups.
I had to doctor Ross's original tapered head design to compensate for the laser's 90° cut limitation,
The shoulder and hip (as with most of us) assemblies caused some grief as I was keeping it small at 12mm (2 layers of 6mm with some 6mm laminated from 2 of 3mm) and "end grain MDF is not conducive to threading… actually any MDF rebels… unless you use rivnuts.
These were not practical and I finished up using epoxy…
the theory is hidden somewhere in these build videos,
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