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Log 6: Time to start cutting... again.

A project log for Solar Analemma Chandelier

A chandelier of LEDs, WiFi and CNC'd MDF.

doigaldoigal 04/22/2018 at 20:130 Comments

After the lessons from the first test block, it was time to get a sheet of MDF, which should be the final material that the light would be cut from. 

A few other decisions were made after the original test block:

And so after all the changes were made in the main model, a new test block (v2) was made in 360:

With the touch block for positioning this was much easier to get the double sided accuracy that was missing from the first block. The upcut endmills gave me nice clean edges as well, a good investment. Thankfully I had ordered spares, as a stupid mistake from me killed one of the 0.8mm ones.

I was really happy with the end result:

So moving forward:

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