My laser cut acrylic projects

Reading Adam's last installment of his soap box thread reminded me about all the laser cut acrylic projects i've got. Lots are demo projects for kids, some are bits and peices I produced for uni projects and some were just for fun.

Here's a couple of the latter, i'll get some pics of the other stuff at school tomorrow.

Candle stick,

Inspired by some candelabra of a simmilar design seen in a boutique in Brighton.



The traditional shaped candlestick profile is etched onto each side of the clear 3mm acrylic, getting the two sides aligned was really hard. The profile was cut and the two parts are slotted together.
The candle holder was turned from aluminium.

Next is a pair of earings and a presentation box.

Again from 3mm acrylic sheet, the box parts are cut and glued, the middle layer is removeable to get to access the earings.
The centers of the earings were made from slivers of opaque 3mm sheet, cut on the laser then glued back together to form a striped sheet, that was then put back into the laser cutter to have circles cut from it. These striped circles were then pressed into aluminium tube. The faces were worksed smooth with progressive grades of wet'n'dry and then buffed.

I should have used silver tube, but that would have been expensive and I had the ally there and then and wanted to crack on.



These were both made for swmbo, some other stuff I have at school are a 3rd angle orthographic drawing teaching aid, pop art handbag, chess set + mini chess set, Rc car tyre gauge and scalextric startline gantry and lap counter. Pics to follow.