|
I have always liked wood as a medium for building. I like the way that wood looks and the grain
structure and the way it feels. When my leather wallet I had had since I was eleven broke it was time to
make a new one. I knew it had to be made of wood.
I was inspired by the aluma-wallet which had two seperate sides held together by a hinge and thought I
could make one from wood. This was my first version of the wallet.
From that model I rendered the design to see what it would look like with the two types of wood I would
use, maple and walnut. I would bind the hinge of the wallet with a strip of leather.
This design required precise wood machining which took some practice. I failed on several pieces before
I got the machining right.
With the correct pieces machined I used magnets to hold the two pieces together. This was a very
statisfying.
This issue with this design were the magnets. When I was uing the wallet I accidently closed the wallet
on my credit card. The magnets in the wallet stripped the magnetic information on my credit card making
it useless.
This was a HUGE design flaw the rendered this wallet useless. Back to the drawing board.
I created a new style of wallet that did not require magnets. This version was very minimal and imspired
by some new wallets on the market.
It has a slot for up to 6 cards that are held in place by a rubber band which also allows for cash to be
kept on the outside. The first renderings of this wallet seemed promising.
I brought the Fusion360 model into AutoCAD where I was able to slice it into pieces I could cut out of
1/8" plywood on the laser cutter.
After super gluing these pieces together I created the final product which I have been using since the
fall of 2020.
|
|