The Iris of Sauron

Hey Middle Earthers,

Behold, the Iris of Sauron!

This started off as a proof of concept to learn how this type of mechanism translates into wood and I needed to figure out how i wanted to make gift i have in mind for a family member who is a photographer (camera shutter is where im going)

I drew up my design in fusion 360 gleaning from pictures I’ve see online and simply overlaid some photos i found online. Learned a lot with gimp/inkscpae on this one.

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Does a death beam come out? Looks great!

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Anything LOTR is cool, but this is really sweet!

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Neat! A learning piece that also came out great!

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Really nice. Love the iris.

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Pretty nifty.

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You will be using this on the Glowforge button?! Would be super cool to do that!

Previously:

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very cool project!

Sweeet! :sunglasses:

Well-executed!

Looks right on center.

Wow! This turned out great!

Dang you guys are on to something…

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