Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
This NYC Subway cuff by Tiffany Burnette would be a reasonable remake for a beginning metalsmith using a toner-transfer etch process (or a laser cutter) and a bracelet mandrel. Via Core77.
I like the design but I have tried to wear something similar to this once when I went to some party dressed as a roman soldier. They are so frikkin’ uncomfortable! Your skin constantly gets pinched and you feel like you have wrist brace on.
BTW what is the tone-transfer etch process?
Natesays:
Toner etching is usually done on circuit boards, but it works pretty well with other metals.
Basically, you print a mirror image of what you want etched onto some glossy paper, and iron it onto the metal. This provides the etch-resist. Drop the metal into the etchant chemical, and whatever is covered in toner is left (relatively) unetched.
Instructables.com has several posts about it; google will turn up loads of sites, too.
Lamesays:
So i bought one for my girlfriend.. it’s a map but it’s not a nyc subway map. it has nyc names on it but the actual map portion isn’t even similar to the nyc map.
i was really disappointed.
Collin Cunninghamsays:
hmm – I assume the one you received looks like the one above?
If so, from the portion I can see, it looks like the station relationships are accurate – tho it appears lateral distances have been compressed to accommodate the bracelet format.
Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
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I like the design but I have tried to wear something similar to this once when I went to some party dressed as a roman soldier. They are so frikkin’ uncomfortable! Your skin constantly gets pinched and you feel like you have wrist brace on.
BTW what is the tone-transfer etch process?
Toner etching is usually done on circuit boards, but it works pretty well with other metals.
Basically, you print a mirror image of what you want etched onto some glossy paper, and iron it onto the metal. This provides the etch-resist. Drop the metal into the etchant chemical, and whatever is covered in toner is left (relatively) unetched.
Instructables.com has several posts about it; google will turn up loads of sites, too.
So i bought one for my girlfriend.. it’s a map but it’s not a nyc subway map. it has nyc names on it but the actual map portion isn’t even similar to the nyc map.
i was really disappointed.
hmm – I assume the one you received looks like the one above?
If so, from the portion I can see, it looks like the station relationships are accurate – tho it appears lateral distances have been compressed to accommodate the bracelet format.
http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm
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