Maki Role

And here we are! Thank you to everybody who's followed along and especially for all the votes I received in the prediction stage. Given I didn't ask for votes anywhere, I'm really touched by how many people chose to back me, hopefully the results are worth it!
 
Without further ado, I present my entry for the Thermaltake RAM Mod Invitational Season 1. Now the question is, are you one for the light side?

Alex has got this, this CNC lord made his own heatspreaders FFS!

You should not be able to lose this Alex 😘

Slick theme and paintwork!

Awesome work. 😍

Voted for UK, Alex Banks

Right, let's get to the nitty gritty then, making the things. Toolpathing these heatspreaders was quite the task, they're going to be cut from 3mm brass plate, which should come out wonderfully with the engraving.

We start by roughing out the outermost contours, this will help prevent the brass from potentially warping whilst on the vacuum bed and possibly damaging my spindle or tools.


The centre section has a trough that runs down the middle, a smaller aluminium button will sit in there to emulate the clip from the originals. I used a 3mm ball mill to get the sides nice and smooth, along with a 2mm endmill for the pockets.
The material is then given a rough facing op, this levels the top surface to the correct dimensions. I say rough, but it's still incredibly reflective and smooth.


Finally we have the engraving, I haven't had the time to edit up the remaining bits and pieces yet, so those will have to go up a bit later, but this should give you a good idea of things.

Woah woah what's this?? An update??
My apologies to everybody, it seems that the Pandemic workload got the better of me and I simply wasn't able to give the proper time required to do a good job, that and I only managed to source a motherboard/CPU/GPU at the end of last week. However, it's better late than never, so in the same spirit as Jesse I'll be uploading themes as I'm able to, despite not being able to get all 15 up for the deadline. With that said, got to have some proper fun with them eh?
Now how's about we get some lights up? Will attach the profile in a mo once I've taken it off the rig.
 
 

Woah woah what's this?? An update??
My apologies to everybody, it seems that the Pandemic workload got the better of me and I simply wasn't able to give the proper time required to do a good job, that and I only managed to source a motherboard/CPU/GPU at the end of last week. However, it's better late than never, so in the same spirit as Jesse I'll be uploading themes as I'm able to, despite not being able to get all 15 up for the deadline. With that said, got to have some proper fun with them eh?
Now how's about we get some lights up? Will attach the profile in a mo once I've taken it off the rig.
 
 

W00t w00t
 
Well I'm glad to say that the kit has arrived! Now to get mixing and have a go methinks, got some fun ideas that I'd like to try out. For now though here are some shots of the kit, I need to figure out what hardware I'll be using with it before firing it all up (irony of not just having stuff to hand...)
 

W00t w00t
 
Well I'm glad to say that the kit has arrived! Now to get mixing and have a go methinks, got some fun ideas that I'd like to try out. For now though here are some shots of the kit, I need to figure out what hardware I'll be using with it before firing it all up (irony of not just having stuff to hand...)
 

Best of luck, Sir. You've got my vote 🤟

Gonna have to go with Alex Banks for this one. Lots of good builders here, though!

I vote for Alex Banks