Archive for March, 2011
Flower Chandelier, part 2
Mar 28th
I’ve been busy, busy, busy designing parts for the chandelier. The picture to the left shows a rendering of the parts I modeled in CAD. I dragged my Dad into the project for the wooden parts – he has a lathe and I don’t, but mostly because he’s really good at woodworking. (Thanks Dad!) He also ended up helping with a lot of the other parts, and he had many good suggestions as we worked out how everything will fit together. As I write this, he’s finished the wood parts, but I haven’t picked them up yet. I can, however, show pictures of our progress on the other parts.
Flower Chandelier, part 1
Mar 4th
All right, I haven’t written for a while and it’s because I’ve been busy designing my next project – a chandelier that will hang above my dinette table! This is so fun! I worked up an approximation of what I want in Googly SketchUp, shown in the picture to the left. The white parts are leaded glass crystal, the brown parts are wood, and the yellow and green parts are transparent acrylic. The butterflies hanging below are little fabric butterflies I got at a craft store.
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