Madgadget
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As I am totally blown away by the comments to the original photos I put up, I thought some of you might also like to see some ideas I have on the case designs.
These are just prototypes, testing whether I could get the flow of the carbon fibre etc and get the shapes right or not, so quality wise, they are not great, but as I have proved to myself that I can do things like this, the next few will be better quality.
These are all polished Carbon Fibre, although I have also been trialling matt finish on some other things I have been working on, so the end idea could be either I suppose
Behold the Nuke .... the testing here was whether or not I could get a good enough blend of two different carbon fibres in tight spaces. The inner sections are a carbon fibre/red aramid fibre plain weave blend, whereas the outer carbon fibre is plain weave. The shape initially started out as a 3D printed shell to get the right structure to work on.
For size comparison, the genuine Oakley case is a Half Jacket-Flak case. Yes, the Nuke is quite big, although I could make it smaller, but I have to make the inside large enough to cope with the shape of the Juliets.
I also love my E-Wire aluminium vault, I love the size and the feel of it, but thought, 'could I do something similar in Carbon Fibre'?
So we have the, Torpedo ..... sitting next to the 'porpoise' as it is now known
Again, for size, here's the torpedo next to a small aluminium vault (for my E-Wire 1.0s)
These are only prototypes, but work nicely etc, but I need to up the quality before I'm happy with them !
These are just prototypes, testing whether I could get the flow of the carbon fibre etc and get the shapes right or not, so quality wise, they are not great, but as I have proved to myself that I can do things like this, the next few will be better quality.
These are all polished Carbon Fibre, although I have also been trialling matt finish on some other things I have been working on, so the end idea could be either I suppose
Behold the Nuke .... the testing here was whether or not I could get a good enough blend of two different carbon fibres in tight spaces. The inner sections are a carbon fibre/red aramid fibre plain weave blend, whereas the outer carbon fibre is plain weave. The shape initially started out as a 3D printed shell to get the right structure to work on.
For size comparison, the genuine Oakley case is a Half Jacket-Flak case. Yes, the Nuke is quite big, although I could make it smaller, but I have to make the inside large enough to cope with the shape of the Juliets.
I also love my E-Wire aluminium vault, I love the size and the feel of it, but thought, 'could I do something similar in Carbon Fibre'?
So we have the, Torpedo ..... sitting next to the 'porpoise' as it is now known
Again, for size, here's the torpedo next to a small aluminium vault (for my E-Wire 1.0s)
These are only prototypes, but work nicely etc, but I need to up the quality before I'm happy with them !
I like the torpedo case too
