Just a few quick pictures from yesterday's work session.
I'm making a full scale prototype with the final materials and it's coming along nicely. The metal is working great, I ended up going with at 3" wide curve in the metal to hold the mail. 2" was just to skinny for large packages or when the Sunday paper comes.
The prototype is painted matte black and I'm actually enamored with the color. I was planning on powder coating all of the pieces, but I may stick with the flat black on one of them. I does take fingerprints quite easily and I'm a bit worried about scratching the paint. The powder coat will be much more durable, a matte black powder coat may be in the works.
The unpainted metal forms waiting to go to powder with the painted metal prototype.
Tomorrow I'll be routing out the new wood pieces (a bit wider than the originals) and we will see how well the meld with the metal.
Thanks for reading.
2 comments:
Oooh, nice.
Will the magazines and mail slip out on the slippery metal?
Your nosy sister,
Bek
Bek, nope, it's 7" wide, most letters are 6-7 " wide and magazines generally don't get longer than 15". It's designed to be wide and supportive.
Thanks for asking though!
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