I made some Ducati Logo themed drink coasters as a gift… here are some pictures of the process. I’m also trying to put together a website of all my projects, where the various files are available for free ( chopbangbuzz.com )
First I traced all of the logo’s from the various Ducati eras that I wanted to use:
Next I cut down some walnut to the size I thought would work for doing 4 coasters at a time:
Since the walnut stock was so thick, I resawed it in half:
Then I planed it to remove the uneven resaw cut:
The fun part - a V-Carve of the logos!
I machined pockets into the back of each to fit the coaster pad:
I don’t have a lot of the box assembly, but here are the miteres being machined into the various pieces:
I went with leather for the pad since I had some laying around and though it might look cool:
The machined pockets had rounded corners, so I sanded down the corners of the leather pads to fit:
Applied some barge cement:
Glued on the Leather:
And just held it on in place with some chunks of aluminum I had laying around:
I used mineral oil on these:
I also decided to oil the leather itself with the mineral oil… After a test I thought it gave it a cool aged look:
Here’s the finished result!
If anyone wants the vector files, models, plans, whatever, they are freely available at my site: chopbangbuzz.com
