Having finalised the drawings for the walkway and getting them approved by Edward, we trialed our first piece of laser cutting on wooden veneer. Our final walkway produced was successful but, due to the nature of the cutter blowing dust into the fine crevices of the design, we had to run a scalpel over the cuts and sand off any burn marks to clean the piece up.
Our styrene textures and pieces arrived so we have primed and cut these accordingly for their use. One mistake I made was applying the final coat of paint to the pillar support, forgetting a thin strip of engraved styrene needs to fit around the top band. This means I will have to sand this back accordingly by one millimetre so that the styrene can be glued to the chemiwood. Another issue at this stage presented itself when we were trying to cut a square of styrene to fit the baseboard exactly. We have decided instead to leave a gap of 5mm around the water for a potential case to fit onto. Once the acrylic was back sprayed, I masked it from dust by de-tacking masking tape and covering it with paper for now.
We have also been preparing the supports underneath the bridge and railings on Rhino and then illustrator. Initially, some of these parts were going to be hand made as on our sketch model but we thought that the laser cutter would ensure they are all even and cleanly finished. Now we will need to decide what adhesive is best to stick the back sprayed acrylic to the baseboard without the paint job being destroyed.
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