Origami continued

After making the CAD model in my previous post I created scale drawings from the faces of that model so that I could accurately transfer the measurement and angles of those shapes onto sheet copper.

I then mounted the drawings onto copper sheet and cut them out with the treadle guillotine and a piercing saw. Then I bent the seams in the vice between some steel blocks and soldered the other seams with silver solder and here we are:

Unfortunately (as-well as this photo being terrible quality) I couldn't quite get everything to line up properly so if I want it to be perfect I'll have to go in and file the edges to they meet properly. A few different things probably caused the edges not to marry up properly: the first is my cuts may not all have been entirely accurate, although i think they were mostly pretty good, the second is that my bends were definitely not 100% accurate (unless your rounding to the nearest 100) in their placement or their angle, another reason could be that as I beat the metal to make the edges of my bends nice and crispy it slightly skewed it so some sides become disproportionately longer than others. If i wanted to fix this I'd probably do it all again and make some kind of jig so all my bends are prefect and at the exact same angle every-time so everything is symmetrical. I don't want to though.