Zds Project Log

Enough planning and experimenting. Going for the real thing:

I used clamps to add weight to the borders so I didn’t have to bend so much by hand. The back clamp is to keep the thing in balance:

And then pliers to do the stretching:

Added two more screws and washers to keep middle part of the acrylic flat:

First round of the front part done. Still lot to do, it’s bumpy as anything, but correct shape is rougly there:

Then I had to cut the acrylic to be able to do the ends from the same piece:

And ended up finding that acrylic rips very easily when in plastic form:

Oh well. I knew that is was propably too ambitious to try to do it from one piece. Back to plan B, using three pieces; one for the middle and two for the ends: