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Students<\/h3>\n

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Project Description<\/h3>\n

I made a plaque that is meant to hang in a house, specifically in a bar-like area. Since it was made for me, I included a baseball design on it, as I played baseball my whole life and It was better aesthetically with a design under the words. It is roughly square in shape, 12 in x 12 in, with circular cutouts 1.5 in in radius on the corners. The wood is 1\/2 in thick. The designs were made using the stenciling machine, which allowed them to be more detailed and led to the letters and design looking better.[\/vc_column_text][vc_zigzag el_border_width=”8″ css=”.vc_custom_1553988641874{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Technical Background<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The plaque was supposed to use the X-carve and have the designs that were stenciled on be inlays instead. However, the machine was broken, and that led to me stenciling instead. The X-carve makes designs out of plain boards of wood. It carves off layers of the wood, slowly making a design according to however deep one decides. In order to get the X-carve to make your design, you must make a design on Easel, a website that allows you to make designs and send them straight to the X-carve. You must specify how big the machine is, as well as the bit that is being used, and then the software makes the route that the X-carve will go on, and creates the design that you have specified.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_zigzag color=”black” el_border_width=”8″ css=”.vc_custom_1553988646466{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Design Drawings<\/h3>\n

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Fabrication Process<\/h3>\n

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In order to make the plaque, I had to learn how to use the Carvey and X-carve. I was tested in order to make sure that I had adequate knowledge of the machines, working in the Easel platform. However, since the X-carve was broke, I was not able to use that for my project. Instead, I cut the wood design with an electric saw, after I had drawn on the design to make sure that the cuts were correct. From there, I used the stencil machine to print out the design that I had made for the X-carve, which I then used to draw the design on the wood after I had cut the outline. I used two different paint stains, in order to make the design stand out. I did multiple coats of both, and then I clear coated over the stain as well to give it a glossy finish. After I was done coating and staining, I used sandpaper on the side because I preferred to have that appear natural instead of being covered with stain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Final Result<\/h3>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_zigzag el_border_width=”8″ css=”.vc_custom_1553988634650{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Students [\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”1247″ img_size=”medium” css=”.vc_custom_1557185676565{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Alex Dickinson Sociology, 2019[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_zigzag el_border_width=”8″ css=”.vc_custom_1553988638130{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Project Description I made a plaque that… <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1379,"featured_media":1257,"parent":212,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245\/revisions\/1258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/epics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}