Box

A pen and box seemed appropriate for an upcoming birthday, as I always think it does. I turned a blue ballpoint pen and made a box from some pine.

The person the box was for is musical, so I added some engraving on the top of the box.

The notes are the first few from 'Happy Birthday'. I engraved it from a bitmap. I converted the bitmap to gcode with a utility that was slightly tailored for this engraving job. It looks like I finally have a set of tools that will allow arbitrary image engraving. The depth is set by the greyscale value in the bitmap. These notes were engraved at a single level.

New Toy Bits

I was asked ot make some missing parts for a 'square peg in round hole' type of toy.

The pentagon and circle pieces were missing, so I made some. The circle was done on the wood lathe, which was a simple choice. Doing the pentagon was harder, but I created another gcode tool and did it on the rotary axis of the CNC machine. It came out quite well. Just needs painting.