Ilan Dei who is our host for this Camp has had a good year. He created some new lines of furniture, and one of them was featured in the New York Times magazine because of it’s uniqueness!
In fact one of the trademarks of the annual “SoCal” Camp is usually uniqueness. Last year we had everything from folding magician’s chairs to violin backs. And this year was no exception.
Ilan showed us some of the 3D shapes he is creating for his furniture prototypes. He works in a variety of materials, and does quite a bit of prototype work for other companies.
Gabriel McKeagney brought in some beautifully carved doors, and panels, and gave a great talk on HOW he incorporates his work into some of the most elegant homes (10-15 million dollar range) on the Southern California coast. He also spoke about how he has incorporated another Shopbotter-Brady Watson into his work flow by having Brady digitize some of his hand carved panels for mass production. (You can see an example of their work in the picture above…).
Tom Byerlee from Visalia showed off a few pieces of 3D carving in old redwood he has been able to find scattered around his area.
Sandor Pratt brought in a couple of great chairs he is building out of a sheet composite bamboo product, and he explained the design process behind his work.
David Cohen related some stories of his experience in the movie industry, and explained some of the tricks of his trade in building exotic shapes from molds, and models.
John Hansen of Onsrud explained to the group which router bits would be the best choices for their particular applications
And Joe Anand of the Mec Soft corporation gave a demo on how to use “Rhino Cam”and “Rhino Art” software.
Lots of good examples, and a great cross section of CNC cutting…
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