KIVI-D - Latest Comments

Re: Furniture, again, with process

kivimaki — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:51:02 -0000

I use Rhino for modeling and RhinoCAM for programming the router.

Re: Furniture, again, with process

Thysmeades — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:39:41 -0000

what software are you using?

Re: Milling process – LED test

kivimaki — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:47:57 -0000

That is a vacuum table and the vacuum does go through the MDF base. Used like that the MDF is known as a spoilboard. Vac hold downs can be extremely useful if you set them up correctly.

Some good resources for vacuum hold down techniques can be found here:http://www.plasticsmag.com/..., and on page 67 of this PDF: http://www.onsrud.com/files...

I hope the info helps!

Re: Milling process – LED test

ChrisMartin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:30:14 -0000

Hey Sam, nice work...
I have a question, is that a vacuum table and if so is it sucking through the mdf base? I built my own 3m x 1.5m router (see chrismartin.org) and I reckon a vac hold down would work for me... BTW, I recently did a table very like yours. You can see an mdf anglepoise lamp I built on the site...etc. Chris

Re: Matchstick Light

Tomas Berrio — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:25:01 -0000

Congratulations!! this project is an example not only of pure efficiency (more with less), but also of a new access to production.

Re: Matchstick Light

kivimaki — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:14:39 -0000

The original nuts we used were uncomfortable to tighten, and it was very hard to get tight enough to hold everything without the light sagging. The wing nuts were also less than 1/5th the cost of the thumb nuts.

In the end I think the wing nuts are more fitted to the utilitarian aesthetic.

Re: Matchstick Light

Adam — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:26:58 -0000

Very nice! Why did you start using wing nuts (vs those in the "process" pictures)?

Re: Milling process – LED test

TT — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:42:30 -0000

Cool video! I don't know what the heck you are making, though. And, poor guy, you are too tall for that work surface - you have to reach down so far!

Re: Matchstick Light – Update

gladys — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:42:05 -0000

Very nice.

Re: The right things for new places

Ann Freeman — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:56:13 -0000

I totally identify with that furniture dilemma you described! Furnishing an apartment and then moving is a huge pain, especially when two people can hardly lift your cheap-as-free desk. I absolutely love that yours breaks down into pieces! It looks like something I could carry down stairs by myself and fit in my car. Brilliant.

Re: Mahogany & Quilted Maple Bowl

Mom — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:33:05 -0000

Thank you, Sweet Boy

Re: Perforated Bowl

Toni Nelson — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:31:28 -0000

Awesome Sam!!! Love the video's and love the work!! Hope to see you sometime this coming summer.
Toni & Gene

Re: Wave Light

Reen — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:35:09 -0000

It is beautiful, Please design more lamps,

Re: Western Washington Winter

Mom — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:51:18 -0000

This made me smile! Love the dancers!

Re: Perforated Bowl

Tibor Uhrín — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:12:31 -0000

Also this
Tibor

Re: More Bowls, More Process

Tibor Uhrín — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:09:59 -0000

Hello Sam, I like your work and that you present it. I would ask you for come picture to my book about wood and design in Slovakia, can I?
The best regards
Tibor
write to: tibor [[at]] uhrindesign.com
Thanks a lot

Re: Somewhere Between a Thesis Book

Stephen Lee — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:14:16 -0000

Sam... insightful reading on this Christmas eve morning. My Sam and I started a pizza peel project yesterday. Red alder and cherry. We could use your CNC process, but analog machining will have to suffice. Nicely done thesis!

SCL

Re: Standards, Limitations

Wendy — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:06:09 -0000

Very good to analyze the limitations of the tools and relative performance of the materials etc. But also step back and look at the shape, the pure design of your four maple bowls.

Those maple bowls (well at least the one I bought) have a very elegant form, an appealing design somewhere between a plate and a bowl. I like the thinness you achieved, the placement of the legs which let the bowl appear to float above the table, and the minimal curve.

Things are both in them and on them. Kind of bowl, kind of plate...Their shape looks a bit like the biomorphic forms of some mid-century modern design, but lighter and cleaner and its own thing.

(Can you tell I love my bowl, edition 2/4?) The newer ones look much more ordinarily bowlish.

Re: More Bowls, More Process

Sam — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:15:21 -0000

The song is Captains of Industry by The Quit.

Re: Oh, Corrugate

Tracy T — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:39:58 -0000

Waiting for the next batch of bowls, I should have bought one when Maggie sent me the link!
Tracy

Re: More Bowls, More Process

Tracy T — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:38:31 -0000

Sam,
Great video, great bowls! Pretty nice write-up on design sponge. Looks like you're having fun at Syracuse!
Miss you,
Tracy

Re: More Bowls, More Process

Anisa — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:49:39 -0000

Since the bowls are all gone, can you tell me about the song used in the vid? Rock.

Re: Thesis: analog, digital, craft

Sam — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:45:24 -0000

It will be. I've done quite a lot more work on it, but haven't formatted it in a way that is appropriate for the web.

Re: Thesis: analog, digital, craft

Marilyn — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:56:02 -0000

I'm very interested in your thesis subject, 'the notion of craft when applied to analog and digital fields', and plan to follow your bog. Will your finished thesis be posted online?

Re: Again again again

vauvie — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:39:14 -0000

Hello, I have arrived here from Switzerland via designsponge. This is my favorite of your bowls...looks like you are doing a lot of very interesting work. thanks for the video too.