Radium Girls 3 metre diameter clock face

[ian_ab]

I build for a couple of theatre companies. The latest thing I was asked to build was a 3-metre diameter clockface, which had to have 4 parts removable as each of the girls died from the effects of Radium poisoning (truly horrible story, based on real life). Perfect job for the Maslow!
Drew the shapes with Gimp, converted to svg in Inkscape, loaded into Krabcam to generate Gcode.
I used a tapered bit from the back side of the MDF, with the depth set so the point was just breaking the other surface, to minimise the gap for the 4 detachable parts. Photo shows cut bottom of the clock with tape holding everything together. Also used the Maslow to cut the sides and top of the circle. 3 sheets of 2440 x 1220 mm MDF.

Painted it a light grey, and into the theatre

Ist victim

2nd

3rd

And finally the bows.

[Caleb_Yager]

thats awesome, also yea radium girls had a rough time, who knew clocks could be so dangerous?

[bar]

This is so cool!! I love the idea of using maslow for set design. It does seem like a perfect application.

How do the sections drop? Do they get removed by hand when the curtain is closed or do they fall somehow?

[ian_ab]

@bar

How do the sections drop?

Held by magnets, no curtain, taken out by cast in the dark. Director doesn’t like the interruption pulling curtains in productions.

[wouldchuck]

Beautiful. Cool designs. our school did that show this year. Dark true story. Your clock looks amazing for it.