My fourth real project (and the REAL reason I bought my Glowforge). I’m part of a sailing community here in NE Wisconsin, and the owners are of course all pretty proud of their boats. But now that it’s winter, we can’t sail anymore until spring.
I made the shadowbox out of birch but I want to try it with a proofgrade cherry top. The waves and sailboat undulate via an offset gear mechanism (offset disks of thick MDF and a brass rod with set screw attachments. It’s encased underneath an acrylic window, and can be set on a shelf, mantle, or hung on a wall (it’s actually very light). Snap-together elements make it fairly easy to assemble, and only a bit of glue is required.
I love how the waves move up and down as the compass turns! Very soothing during the dark days of winter here in the upper midwest. And the scored circulating patterns in the waves and clouds add to the illusion of movement.
I was imagining the boat going back and forth across the box, your implementation is way cooler than that! The summer before my wife and I got married I worked at a marina helping rent out boats; my boss told me I would think about that job for the rest of my life. While you could say I have an above average life currently, I do find myself thinking back to that dock and the carefree lifestyle of it all quite often. Thanks for the share, especially with it being an earlier project of yours.
I’m in St. Peter (NE of Fond du Lac).
