I have an idea process thread...

[dspring]

so... I have a charity skateboard art show coming up... and I have this idea kicking around in my head. I am going to try... I repeat try... to print a 3-D anaglyph (red/cyan) print using skateboards like a woodblock print. I figure the truck holes are a good registration system and a piece of dense foam on top of a third deck will act as the print bed. There are a ton of things that can wrong and some have but we'll see.

Here is the anaglyph that I am going to try to reproduce:



now first I figured if I laser cut the deck deep enough that would be simple and good to go... the problem is I can't find anyone locally who can handle the size of the deck in their laser engraver... so time and $ constraints factor in and I am going to try to sandblast the deck material away...

I have made a triple layer of masking tape as a resist on each deck for each colour... hopefully the sand blaster does not destroy it immediately (he has different media aside from sand as well so some testing needs to be done) as long as I can get through a ply that will give me leeway to go in and dremmel out more material to make the relief deep enough.




stay tuned or don't to see how that goes...

[B-DROID]

neat-o

[littlemonster]

im looking forward to see how this all turns out! good luck

[halfmassive]

this is gonna be a cool process thread. Looks great already

[weaponsofmassdesign]

So this print is ending up on the top of a board? With how you have them set up, the curve would be opposite if you tried to print on the bottom of the board or did I miss something?

[dspring]

no... the prints will be on paper... each board will be basically a woodblock used for printing...

[moe_szys1ak]

If the tape isn't strong enough to withstand the sandblasting, you can probably get a local vinyl sign company to cut your design in sandblasting mask material with their vinyl cutter. Some local t-shirt printer/decorator might also have a vinyl cutter capable of cutting sandblasting mask mats - most likely those that do a lot of team sports apparel. The cutting shouldn't be expensive, but I'm not too sure about the cost of the materials.

[dspring]

update... the tape was strong enough but the wood turned out to be too tough... but my buddy with the plating shop has a friend who got me in touch with someone with a laser etcher that could handle the size that is lasering them based on my vector files tomorrow morning... should have them tomorrow afternoon and ready to attempt to print... huzzah

[evanmarnoch]

That illustration is pretty sick, Dan.

[dspring]

Oh shit... time to start dabbling in the unknown...