My idea was to create something that would partially enclose my headphones when I am not using them. The usual is to just place them on top of the desk I am working on. However, I thought it would be nice to have something that contains them partially. My intention was to do this completely by fabricating without any laser cutting. I decided to use the wood I already had instead of buying some more, which also was a crucial part of the process.
I started by sketching my ideas and measuring my headphones.
After trying at first a couple of cuts from my wood, alternatives to put it all together and asking some questions to the wonderful shop staff like Ian, Amelia and my professor Phil Caridi, I quickly realized that doing it specifically as I thought at the beginning was a tiny bit hard. My wood piece was not perfect for that, its usage was a bit hard. I started by just cutting and joining two pieces of wood and realized how complicated joining the hard wood would be. These pieces were also pretty thick. After talking with Ian, he advised me to cut it differently and then joining.
When trying to get the new shape I wanted, I came up with a problem that Phil helped me fix. The issue was that I could make a cut on the bandsaw but not in its entirety. I still needed to remove those blocks and the bandsaw was not flexible enough for me to just spin the piece. Phil’s advice was to make a hole somewhere on the cut I wanted to do so I can freely spin the piece and allow the bandsaw to cut it.
Once I did that, I realized there was one piece where the hole was dangerously close by the edge. I feared the material would snap at me, specially at sanding. I basically made the mistake of holing it wrong and then sanding it with the sanding machine. Effectively, it snapped.
I started cutting the next version of the piece. In this version I wanted to repair the damage done to the broken piece I had. This time, Ian advised me to cut diagonal lines instead of doing the holes if I wanted to prevent doing the hole again.
In the end I was able to cut the pieces and assemble them together by screwing as I intended in the first place. Lastly, I also used wood glue to add a couple of blocks to one end of the stand, to, to make it feel more enclosed. Unfortunately, I missed to take some more photos about these last processes.
