Jewellery materials and making

With the process of making the physical product, one of groups members had suggested thae use a company to laser cut our product out of acrylic or any material we would like. The Site was called Shapeways. 

But a problem came up and it was that the products would not arrive on time and plus the P&H was quite expensive. I decided to seek out another source which could do something similar but wasn't international. This one was located in Sydney.

Only thing was that they were a little bit limited to materials but it seemed like a good option. I was also thinking along the lines or sourcing the plastic material on its own and then using the laser printer at uni to cut the product. 

Then anothler group member proposed that maybe we could try printing out our product on bamboo wood after having come across this jewellery example.

Yep, we were all for it next but sourcing the bamboo plywood for it was a bit tricky but one of my other group members suggested a place in Fyshwick that actually might stock it and the place was called Turners.

I checked out the place and YES they actually have the stuff but it had to be ordered in and it would take up to a week plus it was a bit dear.... We were also in a pinch as our prototypes were due in less than a week.

Different coloured bamboo wood.

Luckily, we didn't need the real stuff in the end as it was a prototype, which we just used scrap plywood for, and amazingly came out really well.

I got my hands on some 5mm plywood but it failed as you can see in the burnt board but luckily one of my group members found some scrap 3mm ply wood and it worked out.