Day 9: Finish shadow box and diorama - Isaak

This last day of our J-Term, we cut the back boards for our pieces and placed them in to the rabbet cuts we made then screwed them on. On the back of the shadow box I glued the battery pack with the LED lights, then placed the shadow box on top of it. The diorama had a tight fit in its frame but it doesn't require glue to stay in place. the shadow box is a loose fit and peers slightly over the edge of the frame because of the battery pack, there was a slight issue with the battery pack it did cast a shadow, this made some parts of the shadowbox would not be as visible as others.

Day 9: Finally Finishing all my projects-Andres

Today was the last day of J term and today was probably the least productive day. I messed up cutting so many times that we ran out of the right paper for the paper frame on the outside. I did end up finishing bot projects and I'm very happy the way they turned out. Next week we have our J Term presentation and I think we still have to make our presentation for it. I had to do a lot of different things in the afternoon like sanding, cutting the MDF, and screwing in the back board. Mr. Gisbee got a little bit mad because today was our worst day yet. I am very glad that I participated in this J term and I had a lot of fun. 

Day 9- finishing up the thing-ConNnNor Phelps

Today I finished up my shadow box and diorama. I am very happy with how my boxes turned out

I did not have much left to do on my shadow box today. I started the day by inspecting how well my actual box part of my shadow box turned out. The day before I had glued them together and left it overnight. When I undamped the tape that was holding the pieces together I was pleasantly surprised to see that they were well glued. After this, I started to sand them using an orbital sander

Once over with a 360 grit and then finished off with a 460 grit. After I had smoothed them out I started to apply the mineral oil to make the walnut wood I was using look nicer. I accidentally let the wood dry too long and it got sticky.I sanded it again and applied the second layer of mineral oil which made the wood smooth and have a nice feel. Next, I needed to cut the backing to the boxes

After I fitted bothe pictures with their backing I put the models in the box. For the shadow box, I put the lights in the back. After these steps, I was done with my boxes. This experience was one that I am happy to have done. I gained a deeper understanding of how to use adobe illustrator. The main challenge I faced was fitting the front piece for the boxes. It is a layer of paper that covers up the imperfections of the sides of the boxes. It is difficult to make as the boxes are not perfect rectangles which makes it hard to design on the laser cutter.

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Day 9: Finishing Both Boxes- Adrian

This was the final day of Shadowbox J-Term. Today, I finally finished both projects. In the morning, I cut all the final pieces for the Shadow Box. The MDF and the frames for both projects. It was unusually difficult to cut the frames for both projects. I went through 3 pieces of paper and at the end was finally able to do it. I glued the frame and then went to sanding. Sanding was good because I was able to get all burn marks and make it look better. I quickly finished and had to start oiling. Oiling was simple, just to give it a different look. Close to the end of class, I had to attach the LEDs to my shadowbox, and screw the MDF to the back. Screwing the MDF to the back was the hardest thing to do. We had to first drill a hole and then by hand, put the screw in. I managed to do it and had both boxes done. This J-Term was very fun, we had a great time and we were able to make some great projects. 

Day 8: wood working- Andres

Today we mainly did wood working I cut my second frame and I made rabbet cuts in all the pieces most people got to glue but I had to fix my shadow box because it had bumps on the edge and it some of the papers looked like they were warped so I put a foam piece to keep it straight. I  had a lot of fun working with the rabbet cutter and table saw. So tomorrow I will be able to glue my frames together and cut the mdf board out and I am going to make frames to hide any mistakes I made. Tomorrow we will also work on our j-term presentation that we will present the next week. I’m super excited to see how my project comes together. 

Day 8: Cutting Shadow Box and Gluing Frame - Isaak

The morning was spent cutting out the layers for the shadow box and gluing them together with foam core between each layer. The rest of the morning was spent cutting out the frame for the shadow box  then cutting a rabbet in to all of the frames, the small rabbet cuts at the back gave the projects a board to rest on, I had to cut the board for the shadow box wider not because the box was bigger than the diorama, but because I needed room for the battery pack to be placed. The afternoon was spent gluing the wood together using wood glue and a special tape method. In addition to this I had to cut a paper frame to cover the exposed foam core and to help it stick better in the wooden frame.

Day 7: cutting the wooden frame - Isaak

Today was the first time that we used the wood saw. We used it to first get the width of wood we needed for the diorama then made forty five degree angle cuts in four different pieces of wood which were then put together to create a square shaped frame around the diorama, I did mess up the cuts a few times, that meant I had to redo some of the pieces of wood.