Jewellery box prototype

[RockyAussie]

This is the latest design I have come up with for the same customer I do the wedding ring boxes for. These are just a few pictures of some steps involved in making this one. I have now got an order for a run which I will take some more detailed pictures as I go along. There is a bit of 3d printing for the shell parts and tray dividers and a bit of laser work for cutting out the strawboard filler pieces and cutting knives still to be made.

Note the pouch stud for closure and tab

Might make an interesting bag design yet.

This pic below shows the base shell just printed with the hole for pouch stud later addition.

Here all of the pla parts are shown after printing. Sorry I covered the 2 little dividers before remembering to take the picture. The shell closest on the bottom right is for the tray and note that there is holding slots incorporated for the dividers.

Here the tray has been leather covered and velvet base and sides installed. I am here only sliding the dividers in dry. Note there is a small gap in the velvet wall join I need to get better.

Showing velvet and foam joined and sliced to make good curves

The foam and dividers will be removed and glued in later after final measurements are taken.

If you would be interested to see a more complete breakdown on how its made here let me know.

[HaloJones]

Impressive as ever!

[Rockoboy]

WOW! That is amazing! I would really like to see the full process.

[chrisash]

First class work as normal from yourself brian

Once you have sorted out the prototypes, do you have a sub contractor for the actual 3D production or do it all yourself?

[jimi]

Hi Brian, Great stuff there! well done. Would love to see the detailed process too.

[toxo]

I think you must be an alien Brian. With everything else you have going on you find the time to do stuff like this! I wish I had half your drive. Fantastic stuff. Well done.

[RockyAussie]

12 hours ago, HaloJones said:

Impressive as ever!

Thanks HaloJones ...always trying.

 

11 hours ago, Rockoboy said:

WOW! That is amazing! I would really like to see the full process.

If the leather for the job ever gets here I will. So far its gone from NSW past me to Mackay and back down to Brisbane and at present....????

 

11 hours ago, chrisash said:

First class work as normal from yourself brian

Once you have sorted out the prototypes, do you have a sub contractor for the actual 3D production or do it all yourself?

No I do all of the printing here on my old Prusa i3. I have not yet heard of anybody around Rockhampton doing any 3d production yet. I think I may have a go at building something along the line of a larger Ultimaker style  printer one of these days if I can find the time. Makes more sense that the bed does not have to shuffle around doing the x and y with all of the weight and inertia etc.

 

10 hours ago, jimi said:

Hi Brian, Great stuff there! well done. Would love to see the detailed process too.

Thanks jimi. Will do asap.

 

9 hours ago, toxo said:

I think you must be an alien Brian. With everything else you have going on you find the time to do stuff like this! I wish I had half your drive. Fantastic stuff. Well done.

Mostly it helps to have a patient wife.

I forgot to make a mention in the last picture I posted of my big/little laser above pointing out that that it has cut all the strawboard for 5 of these boxes. The little yellow button things are things I printed to hold 9x2mm circular magnets. They make it a lot easier to grab off of the job and collect and distribute around over the metal bed. It would be a large advantage to also have a vacuum bed set up to hold the work but that's just another project waiting to happen. This picture below shows one of the spots where the strawboard gets used to keep things level with the leather and another for covering with leather as in the top and bottom.

[dikman]

Brian, I'm gobsmacked! You never cease to amaze me.

[thefanninator]

Nice work!

[Scoutmom103]

Wow.  I go away Friday morning for a weekend at a Retreat center and come back to this.  You do amazing design and production work.