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Looking good Craig. Great wood work and bending!
Glad to this project picking up again good work Craig, professional bender
Lookin pretty sweet man.
I wish I had some of these skills
freakin' wow. more please!
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Oh dear...
This is amazing craig....
When are you going to start offering services? (hoping...)
I have always wanted to play with carbon fiber.....but wow you have done so well!
Can't wait to see more!
Well guys, I've got some bad news, my quest for perfection is going to cause a delay in moving in with part of this project... I've decided I'm not happy with a few things. I don't feel the outer edges are 'sharp' enough. I think a side effect of the initial multiple layers of CF and the resin hardening too soon, have left things more rounded than I would like. The only way to fix this is to sand the case down, and add another layer of fiber. I can't just sand down what I have and resin because I'll have to sand through a little CF to get it flat. Obviously that will kill the cosmetics. While most of you think it looks great, it's just something that I've decided will bug me. I can't put countless hours into it, only to wish I had fixed it. So, what now? Well, luckily I still have work to do... I'll go ahead and start on the side panels. I've got to order more fiber, and the side panels will allow me to fill the time until it arrives.
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Sorry to hear that, and I understand however I normally don't have that much motivation to redo it completely I would have sanded down the areas I did not like a bit farther and relaid some of the CF in those areas (of course matching them to the rest of the case)
However that would probably leave some lines that would have been otherwise on the bottom of the case.
Good luck on your second round lets hope you get it done to your standards
Well guys, I've got some bad news, my quest for perfection is going to cause a delay in moving in with part of this project... I've decided I'm not happy with a few things. I don't feel the outer edges are 'sharp' enough. I think a side effect of the initial multiple layers of CF and the resin hardening too soon, have left things more rounded than I would like. The only way to fix this is to sand the case down, and add another layer of fiber. I can't just sand down what I have and resin because I'll have to sand through a little CF to get it flat. Obviously that will kill the cosmetics. While most of you think it looks great, it's just something that I've decided will bug me. I can't put countless hours into it, only to wish I had fixed it. So, what now? Well, luckily I still have work to do... I'll go ahead and start on the side panels. I've got to order more fiber, and the side panels will allow me to fill the time until it arrives.
Wouldn't you need an outer mold to get the edges sharp? Otherwise I don't think you'll get and even edge or an edge at all.
*Edit*
After reviewing the process again, I don't see a good way to get the edges sharp. Folding the fiber at the edges perhaps? Is that feasible? Only other way I can think of is fiber panels, but putting seams on the outside would suck I imagine. I don't think you can wrap it and get the edges-at least I can't think of how.
Just brainstorming a bit...if you have it figured out just ignore me...
Are you worried at all about structural integrity when you sand down the corners? You're going to end up bringing in the breaking strength at the bend points, significantly. Very nice progress thus far.
Well, maybe I shouldn't use the word sharp so much... As designed, all corners have a 2mm radius, and multiple layers will exaggerate the radius on the outside. I don't have a problem with that except on the top corners. You see, there is about 1.5cm between the two edges of the corners on each side. What I'm unhappy with is that the area between those edges. The overall shape is far too rounded.
I think the biggest reason it bother me, is the fact that the top two corners of the case are 45 degree angles, just as the top of the side panels are. There should be a parallel plane in transitioning from the case to the side panel, and there's not. It would go from the angle of the side panel, to a rounded surface, and that just doesn't seem right to me. I don't know if I'm explaining it well, but it all makes sense in my head.
In any case, I've got the case sanded down, and once I had one more layer of fiber, I'll be pretty happy with the results.