The first time I saw a water jet in person was at my biggest competitor's studio in Portland. He was using it to cut out 1,000s of pieces of glass for large art glass projects. The same projects that I had a crew of 11 doing he could do with 1 guy programming the patterns and another picking up the cut outs and replacing them with another full sheet of glass. Faster and exact, every time.
So I either had to put one on my shopping list(at the time in the mid 90s about $250K) or not.
The ones we had used pulverized garnet suspended in the water as an additional abrasive. You could cut D6AC vacuum arc re-melt steel with those things. This process also lowers the chance of unintentional un-tempered reformed martensite formation when cutting high heat treat low alloy carbon steels if you're interested in that sort of thing.
It's absolutely mind blowing that water can do this... Having used a Paint sprayer for years, fluid injection is a very real possibility which leads to amputation...but this water jet is nothing short of dangerously evil.
It’s not so much the water with this thing, it’s the abrasive grit that’s in the slurry that really does the work. Yes, nasty stuff if it hits your skin.
The first time I saw a water jet in person was at my biggest competitor's studio in Portland. He was using it to cut out 1,000s of pieces of glass for large art glass projects. The same projects that I had a crew of 11 doing he could do with 1 guy programming the patterns and another picking up the cut outs and replacing them with another full sheet of glass. Faster and exact, every time.
ReplyDeleteSo I either had to put one on my shopping list(at the time in the mid 90s about $250K) or not.
Is it art if a machine cuts 1,000 pieces?
DeleteDefinitely. The machine is just another paintbrush and there are many forms of art; I would compare it to technical illustration.
DeleteFortunately for me, the days of people saying 'digital artwork isn't art!' are gone. I find a certain elegance in precision.
-Arc
sgtbob, the art is in how you put the 1,000 pieces together again.
DeleteOkay,I want one!
ReplyDeleteLet’s go halfsie’s
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You are evil... beautiful!
DeleteWhat men do when they're bored.
ReplyDeleteDo thy make a portable battery operated model I can take to the next Antifa riot? I want to hose a few of them.
ReplyDeleteA Pamplona Bull run would be more fun.
DeleteIt still couldn’t blow the stink off a Democrat
ReplyDeleteThe ones we had used pulverized garnet suspended in the water as an additional abrasive. You could cut D6AC vacuum arc re-melt steel with those things. This process also lowers the chance of unintentional un-tempered reformed martensite formation when cutting high heat treat low alloy carbon steels if you're interested in that sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteSome of those things were valuable to me. Hurt my soul to watch them die for a video...
ReplyDeleteWill marvels never cease????
ReplyDeleteIt's absolutely mind blowing
ReplyDeletethat water can do this...
Having used a Paint sprayer for
years, fluid injection is a very
real possibility which leads to
amputation...but this water jet
is nothing short of dangerously evil.
It’s not so much the water with this thing, it’s the abrasive grit that’s in the slurry that really does the work. Yes, nasty stuff if it hits your skin.
DeleteReal cool but I kind a hurt my gut to see that old anvil cut in half.
ReplyDeleteNew Show: How It's UnMade.
ReplyDeleteI bet the anvil was a cheap China knock-off, cast instead of forged - what Blacksmiths call an 'Anvil shaped object'