Working on a series of boxes in quarter and eighth inch plywood. These use small finger joints on the side and a layered top and bottom. The boxes are dye with Folk Arts Ultra Dye and then layed out in a cross shape (like the purple box below) so the fractal patterned can be lasered on the box.
The fractal shapes are from the free iOS program Frax. This gives me a nice variety of patterns to choose from. Clockwise from the top Swirls (Red), Coral (Purple) and Ocean (blue).
Once you get going a certain kind of madness sets in and you find yourself saying “I wonder if I can do…”
now you’ve got me thinking of the 3D paisley pattern i was engraving on a pickguard, some control panels, and most recently a guitar, and wondering what that would look like if it was dyed up similarly to this image first.
and i do have some “mix your own” dyes (that i think might ultra dye in powder form). i may have some testing to do this weekend.
