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Mondrian Might Be Rolling Over in His Grave

PhotonFanatic

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One of the larger lights that I've made in titanium--24mm x 113mm--this light uses a McClicky and has an 18650 battery:

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I'm not sure why I'm so fascinated with copying Mondrian--these designs are a b*tch to make--each line takes four passes to get to the proper depth. It literally tied up my lathe for days on end--it's not as though you can just step up and do all the lines at once--it requires extreme concentration to do this manually. :devil: In fact, the total number of passes came to 264.

Well, extreme concentration is needed if you want to cut them perfectly. And, as always, I'm never perfect, nor is this light--it actually has one tiny mistake. But I won't tell the buyer where it is. :D

Final pics can be seen in post #18.
 
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Zeruel

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What a beauty. Argh! My eyes! :eek:
Need..... more..... pics
 

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That ain't right! :drool:

Really awesome work :twothumbs and +1 to more pics!

Love the inset area near the (back?) - a nice break in the design.

Me like!

:thumbsup: john
 

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Well, you need to make some with a pattern of raised lines, not slots. Then fill in the depressed rectangles with vitreous enamel and make a cloisonné Mondrian light.

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Here are a few more WIP photos. While the main battery tube and the head are fairly close to complete, there's still some tweaking to be done, and there was one more piece to be machined--the bezel to hold the McClicky rubber boot in place.

Some makers like to just use an O-ring to hold the boot in place, but I like something more complicated and made of titanium. :devil:

Here's the face of the bezel, which has been cut to size and threaded:

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Next the battery tube needed to be bored out to accept the bezel, and then I checked to see that the switch and the boot would still thread in easily and fit well:

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And then the test fit of the bezel, too:

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Not looking too pretty there, but it needed to be faced and brought down to the right thickness, since it was a bit too thick:

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After some trimming on the face of the bezel, it was fit into the bottom of the battery tube, which had been cleaned up with some wet-dry silicon carbide paper--hence the different surface finishes when the two pieces were test fit again:

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And then it was a quick visit to the buffing machine to polish both pieces:

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A lot of work for just a retaining ring. :D

It should look a little better when I clean the junk out of the holes. :eek: :)
 
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stunning result

you are a maker who does it for the love :twothumbs

craftsmen such as yourself are getting rare

I feel for you when you mention 264 passes on the lathe

I did a raindrop pattern in some mokume
there were 200 holes...
I drilled them all 6 times over ,between flattening to draw out the pattern

ok now ... can you show us the mistake to see if we can spot it?

did I mention this is stunning :cool:
 

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The pattern is repeated four times around both the head and body, but the pattern on the head is slightly different than the pattern on the battery tube. The break in the horizontal lines would be due to my not perfectly aligning them before the photo.

Here is photo of the actual machining error:

Nunely%20Error%20Pic.jpg
 

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This 18650 Mondrian Light actually was designed and built around two light engines--one a Nichia UV LED and the other an MCE LED, both, I believe, driven at 750mA and made by darkzero, aka Will.

The buyer wanted to be able to use either LE in the head, but he also wanted a lens in front of the LE's, too.

So here are what the heads look like--first the MCE:

Nunely%20Mondrian%20Final-5.jpg


Yes, those are four Trit vials that Will put in there, along with the glow powder.

And here's what it looks like out the front:

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The UV LE in the head:

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And with the LE on, shining on a Trit sphere:

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I have no doubt that LE will be perfect for curing NOA 61. :D

And a few more shots, just because I have them. :devil:

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Nunely%20Mondrian%20Final-8.jpg

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Now I just have to hope the buyer doesn't croak when he sees the price. :devil:
 
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Yeah... that's awesome. :eek:oo: And useful as all hell - flood lights are where it's at! :twothumbs
 

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