February 25th, 2011

I spent the night at my office printing pictures until about 3am.  I woke up this morning and kept printing.  It was a day off from normal work duties.  My goal was to get my print as much as I could by the days end.

Jenny called in the middle of the day and asked if I could stop by ikea to pick up a children’s table and chair set that they were selling for 20 dollars.  While I was there I spotted this mirror.  It was a classic wall mounted mirror which had arms that allowed it to expand and retract.  The moment I saw it I thought of my Pinto-graph machine.

The arms were scissor-style.  Exactly the kind of design used for the arms of the pinto-graph.  I thought if I were to mount these arms onto my motor attachments I would get much larger drawings from it.  Plus they were made of metal and much higher quality then the arms I made from basswood.  The clincher was that the mirror was only five dollars.

I was pretty exhausted from the long printing session and when I got home the only thing I wanted to do was tear apart this mirror.  I brought it into my studio and found a drill bit that matched the size of the rivets holding it together.  Then I proceeded to drill each of the rivets out.

It was actually very easy to do.  I thought about getting out my sawhorses and making new disc attachments but I didn’t have the energy for it.  I am looking forward to building this guy though.  I think it will be a pretty simple procedure to construct and I can’t wait to see how big the drawings turn out.