The Portal Book ends
For my final project I took the design I made in lab 4 and continued to work on it. I modified the project in order to be the size and have an easier way to combine pieces ones fabricated. I added joints to the 90 degree connection in order to make it easier to put it together and added the second layer that would hold the half circle that balances the bookend.
I was able to lazer cut the wood pieces with 1/4 inch thick in order to get the right form that I wanted. I was able to cut all the wood and acrylic for the portal image, then I took 3 hours to 3D print the portal guy in order to have it looking amazing in the end.
After cutting out the pieces and 3d printing I stained the wood a darker color, painted the acrylic the appropriate color of each portal and then glued everything together. I super glued the 3d pieces to the wood and it help everything together pretty well.
The final product came out better than I had expected and they turned out looking better than I expected. I was able to put them to the test and it worked with holding more than 15 albums together. The sizing was perfect and it looked great after I had stained the wood and added the painted acrylic. Now it sits on my shelf holding all of my Kpop albums together.
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