MJ2 Artesanos

Year: 2012

  • Middle Earth Map

    Middle Earth Map

    The idea of ​​making this map came out just wanting to try a glass engraver “Dremel Engraver” that Miguel gave me. This is not a rotary tool as most Dremel tool, if a punch moves forward and backward.

    Dremel Engraver
    Dremel Engraver

    The realization is just a matter of patience, since the drawing is traced, so it was a matter of a couple of afternoons.

    Primer día de grabado
    First day of engraved

    Well, I thought that the engraved parts would shine if I put lights on the sides, but its not easy to be a homogeneous light.

    Primera prueba de iluminación
    First test of enlightened

    To put a strip of LEDs and illuminate the outline I had to make a framework with sufficient gap. These strips are sold in electronics stores, and although some already come with their own power source,they are typically sold at 9v, 12v and 24v.

    Resultado final sin luz
    Final result without light
    Resultado final iluminado
    Final result with light

    The pity is that in the first trip made by car from my workshop, where I made the frame to the house … the glass was broken in two halfs. Well, maybe someday we will repeat it.

    Rotura
    Broken

    (The glass was a part of those that are mounted without molding, so it’s easy to find one of the same size, is something to consider when making crafts, look for materials that are easily replaceable, if we start from something we find and that inspires us … will also be a funny handcraft, but a single piece)

  • Grail Tablet

    Grail Tablet

    The Grail tablet was discovered in the mountains at north of Ankara, as told in The Last Crusade. It is one of the two tracks left by the knights of the First Crusade who guarded the Holy Grail and pointing its location. The text engraved in Latin on sandstone describes the way forward to meet him, but unfortunately is broken, and without the top we not have a place to start.

    I think that is the Indy movies object that I like more, I guess because it took me many hours (even though I got rid of the first and then repeated).

    As I had no intention of using a real stone, I decided to do it on a sheet of high density polyethylene foam, which is easy to handle and has a thickness suitable for this job.

    Although I had seen someone who had done so, I didn’t like the way they engraved the letters with a router (by hand, not CNC), I prefer to “write” with solvent. So get to work.

    I got a template of the full text of the table, kindly provided by my good friend Peter (Barnett_College at Indy’s issues) and I went over the letters with a pen to mark them on the material.

    Proceso tablilla del grial

    So far it was only a matter of patience.The following step requires a little more care, and as I say, I tried different types of milling cutters brought me Miguel, butthey did not convincied me and opted for the solvent, which although is a simple (and fun) but can be some uncontrollable until you got the hang of the brush. (First I tried dipping the tip of a marker and a pen, but no, better a brush)
    Proceso tablilla del grial 2

    As for the shape of the table, we used screenshots and also a book that every good fan of this saga knows “From Star Wars to Indiana Jones” and I call “the bible” because of the number of times I take it as reference for this type of work.

    With a abrasive file is given the basic shape and with fine sandpaper termination is given.

    This was the result after paint:

    After a while I made another, from which I took a mold, with it I have made a copy in plaster and other in resin (loaded with microspherules, to relieve the weight)


    Actually these are not the tables we use to make the Grail Tablet rubbing… That’s another story that we will tell you another day.

    Now availabe in our tienda.

  • Magic Cube

    Magic Cube

    We are opening a new category: “Toys” with something we did out of curiosity, (which is our weakness), a few years ago, when came to our hands a puzzle. Well, It is not really a puzzle, because one must not think anything, just manipulate it, so that in a curious way they appear images. Generally we have seen as a funny advertising medium and it was fun to see how we could build one.

    In this case I decided to personalize it with images of my town, Villavieja Yeltes in the province of Salamanca (Spain), and the truth is that it was quite successful among my countrymen that year.

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMS0qyG4c0Q[/youtube]

    So much so we finally made some of them personalized as a gift for a birthday and a wedding.

    It is built with blocks of wood, laser prints with a good resolution and laminated to prevent spoilage with use.

    Following this toy, I studied the Kaleidocycle, a rotating object created with paper, rather curious. Starting with a flat surface (a sheet) folded in a certain way, you can turn on itself showing the different faces. The truth is that when we made it, I spent hours turning over and around. You can learn more about them here

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8Pxop_RFM[/youtube]

    According to the Wikipedia article, the cube we have shown at the beginning of this post is also a variety of kaleidocycle, reading it, I’ve discovered this Yoshimoto cube (coming soon…)

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtbcgBWobA[/youtube]

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