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Re: Metal 2x4 Bricks and Keychains are back!
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:42:49 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Jake Rentar writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> > Hi all,
> > I've made more aluminum 2x4 bricks, and some brass ones too! Both are also
> > available as keychains. Get your textured, matte, or shiny brick or keychain
> > engraved today!
> > http://lego.bldesign.org/kits/metal/
> > Hope you like them!
> > --Bram
>
> Hi Bram. I'm very interested in your home-made bricks. I might buy one or
> two sometime, but I'm even more curious about that "CNC mill" that you
> created these jewels with. And also how you "blasted" the bricks with
> textures and the sort.
They're machined with a HAAS VF-3 (I think), using a 1/8" flat endmill. The
"blasting" is done in a regular sand-blasting box...basically a metal box with
a window, a pile of ground glass or small glass beads, and an air hose.
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
www.bldesign.org
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