Blog 9

Thursday 26/5/11
I have almost finished the 2nd layer of my clock. As you know the 2nd layer is the words imagine in bubble writing it is really hard to smooth the cardboard down to make the letters exact. I have found that different types of scissors work better when cutting cardboard. (And I am not talking about smiggle scissors. It would be easier to use foam though I think that time is running out and foam shrinks in the vacume former reducing the amount of times you can reuse it. Today Mr Andrew gave us an example of what your clock will look lime after in has been vacume formed he used thermoplastic to mak a mold. To get it to work you have to heat the thermoplastic just enough so that it won't all flop of the vacume former, then you have to push that onto the example you make and leave this on for about a minute then you have to take it out and let it cool. Once it has cooled you have to pop your original shape out and you will have a perfect reusable mold of your clock. Minnie who was one of the first to have her clock vacume formed had a bit of trouble popping her clock out. Her clock is a cactus and she had some trouble popping it's eyes and other partsnof it out. In the end it was sucessful but it just goes to show how some designs may be less detailed but more reusable.
Mr Andrews also told us that we were using a special recycled wood that was made out of smaller wood particles all pushed together! He said it was a very soft sort of wood so sandpaper would be perfect for working on it.