soaking poplar allows for it to bend just like pine… we’re not really sure why we never tested this approach earlier. the overall look of pine is much nicer but the thing that we found about poplar is that because it’s a harder wood, it holds its shape better.
for our final, we want to iterate on our midterm and create a wearable sculpture that allows for two people instead of just one. because the max width of wood we can get it 11.25″ we had to split our design into three pieces.
… and they will fit together… puzzle-like. which means we will incorporate pocketing. exciting!
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our first test to try out the new shape of our design.
we made sure to measure the thickness of the wood many times at various places so we don’t make the same mistake as last time.
our first run had the speed set at 35 but it was too fast, the combination of a harder material and faster bit speed made tiny chunks of wood come out. also contributing to this was that the bit went against the wood at different angles, causing various amounts of stress.
our second run had the speed set to 25. it was better but we still encountered bits of wood chipping off.
both runs are being considered as tests because our final product will be done with a softer wood- it’s unfortunate how we can’t test with that kind readily due to price. but it’s okay.
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we messed up our calculations a little bit but it turns out the mistake was actually the correct amount of wood to leave behind.
we made 2 mastercam files to get the gradation- one for each side of our wood and included a point to be drilled that would remain as our origin reference.
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iteration(s) of our cnc-“puzzle” design and figuring out how to make a correct mastercam file.
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