Cultivate Studios
Chicago, Illinois
A chunky modern bookend that will brighten any room. An ampersand is always the perfect accent for your literary collection! Includes an optional instructional video for creating your own letter in Easel.
Watch this video to see how I used Easel to draw the ampersand, and follow that same technique to re-create a letter of your own in Easel.
Then, follow the remaining steps using your new files.
1 minute
Measure the exact size and thickness of your material. The thickness of the material is inconsistent from piece to piece, so this is an important step.
4 minutes
Using double stick tape and carefully positioned clamps, secure the plywood to the wasteboard.
35 minutes
Open this file and set the measurements to your specific piece of material, and set the cut depth to the thickness of your plywood. Use the 1/8 1FL Spiral Upcut bit (gray ring) and carve.
20 minutes
Repeat steps 2-4, set the material to acrylic and use the 1/8 1FL straight bit (black ring).
5 minutes
Open this file, set it to the measurements of your 1/16th clear acrylic and carve using the 1/8 1FL straight bit (black ring).
10 minutes
Glue the acrylic ampersand to the plywood ampersand using an even coat of spray adhesive.
Glue the ampersand to the base using super strong glue, I used the Quick Bonding Super Glue – SUPER JET available on the Inventables website.
James E Martin
James E Martin
An Tam
Sandra Chikerotis