setting up

A huge thank you to Alison, Adele, Aaron, Kate and Lisa for all the help in setting up

tonight is the night for nottingham light night

last one

stacked and packed and ready to go

clean and shiny

lots to gloss

paint work

all aboard

reinforcement

undo

just when I thought I had finished all the sides I realised I had done some of them upside down...time to pull 6 of them apart and start again.

out side

in side

today i glued and nailed the inner side of the 24 panels of the lightbox.  

i have not checked all the panels make the circle, i hope my calculations were correct.

it's all coming together

ready for action

cnc machine

the lightbox is starting to come together now, the curve has been created in segments on a cnc machine

ooops

note to self: getting distracted when testing lighting is dangerous

getting started on 'you'

the university of derby have allowed me use their facilities - the technicians have been great, helping me with CAD and showing me how to set up the laser cutter to etch into the glass votives.  each votive has to be etched individually, so i will be spending many days placing each one and aligning it ready for the machine.

time for pi

calculating the circumference of the lightbox

it's a long time since i needed to do maths