Acrylic Snowflakes

Part of my Christmas gift to my mom this year is acrylic snowflakes. Ornaments perhaps?

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Very nice work! Acrylic snowflakes do reflect nicely with Christmas tree lights.

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Those look like real flakes! :grinning:

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They do! Especially against that grey sky.

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you dropped a sentence in another thread and yesterday these were born:

Very clever… I expect we’ll see more next year.

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Nice! :sunglasses:

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I have been making these as earrings and pendents. I have used “Bentley snowflakes” from the Dover catalog. There are lots of snowflake pictures online. I have a Pintrest board full of them.

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I used Bentley photos for a number of mine as well!

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This guy does amazing photos of snowflakes, has a Google+ collection called ‘Snowflake a Day’ where he also explains the structure and reasons for it. His high resolution pictures are the best I have seen. Zoom in to an amazing depth.
He is also the author of “Sky Crystals”, an entire book of his work.

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Ah those are beautiful!

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Snowflakes so far!

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Thank you!
I have a thing for edge lit acrylic and with their radial symmetry, snowflakes do well with a center hole to sleeve the small bulbs they embellish the tree nicely. The hole needs to be snug, and having a tool that graduates in thousandths is very handy!

I have also enjoyed flooding select areas with a solvent to ‘polish’ the engraving. I love the experimenting as much as the finished product!

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These are just lovely. Now that I’m a mom, I imagine these being a wonderful winter teaching/science tool as well.

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What solvent are you using? I might want to try that.