(Marie Jacobsen and Mikaela Juzswik)

For this assignment we cut out two OEDK pieces out of aluminum using the plasma cutter. We imported the edited OEDK file from illustrator and put it into Torchmate, the OEDK’s plasma cutting software, to do the actual cutting in the machine shop. The first OEDK logo didn’t come out very clean because the metal plates in the water bed created a see saw effect with the logo once the outer edges were cut out which moved it slightly. The second time we got lucky where the outer edge cut balanced the OEDK label perfectly between two of the plates in the plasma cutter. For progress’s sake, the messier of the original efforts is shown below:

Note the excess slag and discoloration present on the metal.

We then used a variety of files in the machine shop on both logos until they looked smoother. One logo had a lot of slag near the inside of the O, which took quite a while to remove, while the other logo had a large fragment of metal still attached to the interior of the D, which had to be removed using a drimmel. Both logos were then sanded to create a brushed aluminum appearance. One logo was also spray painted. Below is an image of a logo in the midst of post-processing, during the filing and sanding process:

Marie then chose to completely sand down her logo, giving it a shiny, polished appearance, shown below:

We also noticed that the OEDK logo, turned on its side, looks like a very happy person. Mikaela decided to spraypaint and then detail paint, using acrylics, to highlight this feature.