#Nighthawk #video on waterproofing and stiffening #cardboard by brushing on 500mℓ isopropanol, 125g shellac, 15g beeswax (emulsified), 2g metal stearate (slowly stirred on low heat on an electric burner outdoors). Also demonstrates a totally game changing edge-sealing technique where you cut halfway through the cardboard to isolate one side, then fold it over. Also you can stiffen the surface with wheat paste. And maybe pasting on extra layers of newspaper or paper bags. Also, you can edge-splice panels with the same cut-halfway-through technique and then pasting the sides thus isolated. He also touts his waterproofing mix as a way to make fabric waterproof, showing some very impressive demo video. His second waterproofing recipe is 100g EVA hot glue diluted with 25g paraffin wax and 20mℓ mineral oil. He also demonstrates homemade lampblack with a vegetable oil candle under an aluminum tray for UV protection, but thinks calcium stearate might work well enough for UV protection, which is his reason for including it; he recommends reacting soluble sodium stearate (made from stearic acid and lye) in water with sulfate of aluminum, zinc, or magnesium, or muriate of lime, to form the insoluble metal stearate. Doesn’t contain his usual total mangling of the science. #DIY #bootstrapping #materials
on 02025-06-14#video on bent #wire #cardboard #automata #mechanisms. Shows making crankshafts from galvanized steel wire with pliers, a frame bent around a plastic box using cut bicycle spokes to form loops. Shows how to loop a thinner wire around the crankshaft several turns to form a triangle to prevent the connecting rod from sliding along the shaft. Suggest using kitchen tongs (?), a square pipe, and a sort of clamp for wire bending as well. He mentions copper, “M.S.”, zinc, and solder wire. Demonstrates scribing a plastic box with a sort of improvised height gauge on a normal Formica table, and using a hot wire to puncture it. By godbolerr@gmail.com, Ravindra Godbole.
on 02024-06-09Frank #Gehry’s #cardboard #furniture collection "Easy Edges", the ones with the massively laminated wavy chairs and stuff
on 02021-05-29Open-source plans for a #cardboard nightstand. #furniture #design
on 02016-06-29article on Adrian Candela’s #cardboard #furniture #design.
on 02016-06-29#video about the Chairigami store, originally intended as “Legos for #cardboard #furniture #design”.
on 02016-06-29#cardboard #furniture #design #video of Adrian Candela’s glueless DIY “Nit” nightstand and a couple of other simple designs.
on 02016-06-29