Losantiville KunstWerkHaus

This friday, August 27th we’ll be hosting power tool drag races during the Final Friday event. Here’s a taste of what you’ll see:

We’ll also be hosting the sophomore industrial design students’ power tool projects from DAAP. We’ll begin setting up around 5, with races starting sometime after 6, once a decent amount of people show up.

Let us know if you’re interested in joining the races with your own belt sander, or other modified power tool: Contact Us

For July’s Final Friday show, we decided to explore the theme of re-use, as we tried to find new uses for “old” objects and recyclable materials, specifically corrugated cardboard.

Sean built a coffee table from palette wood he found around town, while I explored lighting with sandblasted glass and “as-is” items from Ikea.

We also featured some work from UC’s sophomore class where they were prompted to build an object to scale from white corrugated cardboard. Among the objects were a deer head, a sniper rifle, a bookshelf, a chair and a bicycle.

Chris made hanging lights in the first picture, as well as this nice lamp, based off a building located near our shop.

For August’s Final Friday show, we’re going to be hosting some of the projects from this summer’s sophomore industrial design power tool studio. There may also be some hacked tool-related entertainment in conjunction with our friends at Hive13.  Stop by to find out.

Here’s a video of some early circuits I’ve completed using SparkFun’s Inventor Kit for Arduino in preparation for exploring a line of electronic devices. More updates and videos to come as I find the direction I want to take.

Just wanted to say thanks for the feature article about us in Soapbox recently.  We are still actively trying to figure out what our best role in interacting with the community is,  given that we are occupying a storefront space.  We’ve been limited to Final Fridays as we aren’t quite ready to run as a shop, but we are inside most days working.  If you see us in there creating stuff feel free to  knock on the door.  We are always willing to help dream up and collaborate on new ideas.

Also overdue are pictures from June’s Final Friday down here on Main Street :

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Here are some overdue pictures from a show that we hosted at our space in early June.  We teamed up with Professor Peter Chamberlain to present the final concepts and posters from his  ”Product as Packaging” studio where they thought about how to decrease waste by making the package become part of the product experience after its initial use. Hosting the show at Losantiville gave professionals a chance to come in after work hours and gave the students a chance to exhibit their projects in a gallery setting and casually interact with guests, as opposed to the more tense critique environment.

Finish Pass, originally uploaded by LosantivilleKWH.

Here is one of the parts for the new lamp going through a full depth finish pass with a .020″ WOC. They get pretty close to a mirror finish from this.

First operation finished, originally uploaded by LosantivilleKWH.

Here are some of the half-finished parts for a new lamp I am working on. Next I need to flip them and run the backsides of all of them.

Cincinnati Arrow 500 VMC, originally uploaded by LosantivilleKWH.

This is one of the machines I run at work, just about to get ready to run a series of parts for a new project I am working on.

Revolution Cycle Company | Trimtab 3X3, originally uploaded by LosantivilleKWH.

A shot of the Trimtab at Losantiville. Most of the parts are in place. In the background you can see some furniture from Such & Such.