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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Thank you for the compliments...
Thank you,thank you,thank you...
About 80% of my pieces are made from scrap...
I DO mean laser cut,but not by me personally. I mean outsourced to a facility that is set up to do that exclusively.
They are expensive machines to be sure and require constant care and maintenance as well as a competent programmer to do the computer work to control the beast. But it is more accurate and accomplishes a finer kerf or cut than plasma cutting.
I also have allot of my very intricate designs WATERJET CUT (the newest technology). This method does not burn the edge the way laser cutting does,so there is zero heat distortion of the piece.Also you can't laser cut bronze or copper in any thickness as the light reflects back and burns out the laser. So the waterjet method is the alternative.
The laser cut pieces for this fruit bowl were the left over SCRAP from cutting these curly shapes from big sheets of metal(used as decorative screens at a Nordstroms someplace). I just saw the potential for using them in this way,cold formed them to the requisite curve and welded them together...
The water jet has a slury of microscopic garnets which are shot at high pressure through a very tiny aperture. It cuts 1 inch glass like butter. Stone,stainless,masonry,pretty much anything...
the problem with the laser is that it leaves a very sharp edge often,that needs to be ground or polished ,as well as the heat thing.
There is also laser welding now which I need to learn a bit more about.