It’s been a while since I posted anything to my site, but since I have some free time on my hands here is my latest project.
This project came about out of necessity—to address some ceiling damage. Since I’m unable to repair the ceiling directly due to its composition, the idea was to cover the damaged area instead. The photos aren’t the best, but they should give you the general idea: there used to be a fireplace here, and the damage I’m covering is where the flue once exited through the roof. The damaged area, including some old water spots, was carefully measured (thanks, Dave!) to ensure full coverage.
I created a drawing in Vectric Aspire based on an image that I liked…
I ran a few test pieces in plywood to make sure I had drawn it correctly and that the panels would align when created. My CNC also has a limited X / Y axis, so the project needed to be “tiled” in Aspire. I was mainly interested in where the panels joined from a testing perspective, and it looks like the tiling worked!
Here are a few pics of the final panels, created from MDF.
This project will be made from MDF and painted. Since the top surface of the MDF was damaged, I had to “size” it using a mixture of white glue and 50% water. It worked really well in the end, but applying and sanding it was definitely a pain.
The last piece of this design is to use a tube skylight as the center of the daisy… still finalizing the plans for that, but this is the interior side of the skylight with a raised lens. More to come…!
