Snowflake Carcasses Need a Good Home
Posted by JEC on August 9th, 2010
Late last year, I commissioned the metal shop to cut a full panel (48″ x 96″) of snowflakes. A few days later, they arrived. As it turns out, we got so busy that these were never used.
They’ve sat on the workshop shelf, lonely and forlorn, ever since.
Both designs have been laser-cut from .06″ aluminum, then finished with a smooth brushed texture.
The trick is that all the holes were cut to be 12.00 mm in diameter. This is the perfect size for last year’s 5-bit nodes, but they’re too tight for the 2010 build, which requires a 12.5 mm (not 12.0, not 13.0) hole size.
As with most things mechanical, the holes can be manually stretched using a drill press, a .50″ drill bit, and a bit of patience.
I won’t be using them all this year, so I thought they might be valuable to someone else. There are two designs available, as shown below.
'Friendly' Snowflake, 23.5" diameter, 103 nodes. Camera perspective is a bit skewed here, because the design is perfectly symmetrical.
'Chickenfoot' Design. 13.5" diameter, 60 holes.
Clip above shows the big flake running a random and unmapped pattern. No attempt was made to make it pretty.
Price for the snowflakes is… well, a ton less than what we paid the metal shop.
But, if it gets them off the shelf and into a good home, we’re thrilled. $24 for the big design, $14 for the small one.
Current in-stock quantities, which will be updated to reflect any order received, are
- ‘Friendly Snowflake’: 0
- ‘Chickenfoot’: 0
Update 1:53 PM August 9. The snowflakes were snatched up within about 10 minutes of the email notification being sent out. My wife insists that they were seriously underpriced. I’m inclined to agree, but am very happy that they’ll be used well this season.
To order, send an email to ‘john AT response-box.com’ with the subject line ‘Snowflakes Please!’ Let me know how many you’d like, your shipping address and preferred payment method (Paypal, Google Checkout, unmarked and non-sequential small bills, etc).
Our email list (see the top right corner of this page) is enormous, so I don’t expect these to last very long. Subscribers to the email list always get instant access to new content, within a few minutes of it being posted here.
So, if you’re at all interested, don’t miss this chance.
- John
P.S. If you end up making something neat with your snowflakes, please send photos or links to your video clips. It’s always exciting to see what other folks are doing.