Finished objects are only part of the collection. These notes pull out material choices, small revisions, and workshop decisions recorded in the original posts.
Original component and printed replacement, photographed together.
MANUFACTURING / CHANGE THE PART, NOT JUST THE SUPPLIER
The replacement did not have to be more of the same.
A recurring brittle-part problem became a Fusion model, a TPU print, and an installed CNC tool-rack component. My September 2023 post describes the geometric difficulty and what I observed after a 90-day trial.
This case has its own drawing, saved file variants, comparison photographs, printing footage, and machine footage. The story is the connection between them.
Original Jerky_FPV post, September 15, 2023; drawing issued October 4, 2023.
Swirl pattern worked into the thickening resin between two natural wood edges.
01 / MATERIAL & TIMING
The pattern came after the pour.
In a June 2020 update, I described returning about 12 hours after a pour, once the epoxy had gelled. The higher viscosity let me draw through the river with a tongue depressor and leave the swirl pattern visible in the photograph.
That timing belongs to this recorded pour, not a universal resin recipe. The useful detail is that the finished appearance involved another deliberate operation after pouring.
From Mike's Functional Artistry project archive, 2020-06-29.
The patterned end-grain RV sink insert, including its circular opening.
02 / FIT & REQUIREMENTS
A small object can carry a specific brief.
The RV board had exact dimensions and threaded hardware for reinforcement and adjustment. The hanging shelves offered two standard sizes and custom variations. The plant enclosure began with the surroundings it had to work in.
These are not extra disciplines to count. They are the actual decisions that make each object worth a closer look.
From Mike's Functional Artistry project archive, 2020-09-04.
Cropped detail of the purple replacement fitting installed at the wardrobe rail joint.
03 / REPAIR & ADAPTATION
Replace the part, not the whole thing.
The wardrobe repair starts with a cracked fitting and ends with a printed replacement installed on the existing rails. The jar lid is another small interface problem, and the restored chair frames approach reuse through refurbishment instead of replacement.
These pages belong together as an editorial route through repairs and adaptations, not as a claim that they were a single project.
Router, adjustable circle jig, and a circular wood cutout.
04 / WORKSHOP METHODS
The next project sometimes needs its own tool.
The router circle jig was followed three days later by a post showing a practical kitchen use. The clamping fixture was made for cutting-board glue-ups. The workbench brought the saw and vise into the same working area.
Here, the tool is a finished project in its own right and a way to make later work possible.
From Mike's Functional Artistry project archive, 2020-07-06.
Walnut center, contrasting wood borders, cherry frame, and walnut plugs on the commissioned board.
05 / COMMISSION & COMPOSITION
The brief can leave room for interpretation.
The double-sided board began with a budget and an image rather than a full fabrication plan. Its caption describes intended uses for the two faces, contrasting woods, a cherry frame, and homemade walnut plugs.
That is a richer account than a single label such as cutting board: it preserves what was requested and the choices that turned the request into a particular object.
From Mike's Functional Artistry project archive, 2020-12-03.
The blue-and-pink EffZero printer, photographed as an assembled machine.
06 / BUILD & MODIFICATION
Put the files back beside the machine.
The EffZero story pairs the homing video and finished photograph with the M8P mounting and enclosure files. The Voron V0.2 story also now includes its later Galileo 2 upgrade and the credited community designs.
This keeps the machine, the modifications, and the collaborators in the same account instead of scattering them across unrelated portfolio tiles.
The CNC folder in Jerky3DP contains belt clips, corner and axis limit guides, a wheel-chip blocker, a bit holder, and a vacuum elbow. The limit-guide collection includes blank and labelled versions, source-format files, and photographs. This link is a file inventory, not a claim that every file is an independently tested original design.