It's been a few months since I've dabbled with forged carbon fiber. So, I've had a fair amount of time to think about how I did it previously, and what I can do to improve it. I've also since come up with several more questions I want answered about it and what I can do with it. The first time through was a success, but with several large drawbacks. The biggest of which was that the mold was not reusable after forging, and removing it from said mold was a process and a half i

I've been wanting to make my own axe for a few months now, so I decided I would take a first chop at it, since I've had some free time, and see what I can learn. The first thing to consider is what I want to get out of this axe in the first place. I mainly want it for show, but it would be cool if it threw decently too. So I drew up this viking bearded axe / tomahawk shape, which I have dubbed: "Hawkbeard". Since I've never made an axe I don't have a good feel for weight dist

At the beginning of the year, I posted some info about the first Brace prototype I've been working on here. Some time has passed and the next iteration of said bracelet is now complete, using a lot of design feedback from the first. The P1 prototype had a lot of hard edges that made it uncomfortable in some situations. While those made it look really cool and... edgy, it was less cool when you would take it off and have a sharp red ring around your wrist from where it dug in

Previously I wrote about my research into various carbon composites and how I was designing a mold to try my hand at "forging" carbon fiber. So here is my first attempt at it, and the results were better than expected. *** Find out about the latest experiment here *** I decided to go ahead and make a decent molding platform that I could test with and reuse for future projects. The housing is three steel plates burned out on a plasma table, with a removable 3D printed mold sha

Lately I've been doing some research and prototyping with carbon fiber. Everyone loves carbon fiber for one reason or another, and I am no exception. I'm definitely no expert on composites, but I've worked with custom carbon fiber molding in the past, though it was on a scale 100 times larger than the scale of the parts I'm concepting for BRACE. Small scale carbon fiber is a lot harder than large scale. Well, not to say that it's too much harder, you just need more specialize