Ideas for school music and reading trophies

[flanajb]

Hi,

I agreed to make and donate a couple of trophies for my local primary school. The trophies are for the annual reading award and annual music award.

For the music award I was going to try and find someone to cnc a musical note out of some aluminium and then set it into a nicely made timber base.

The reading award is the one I am struggling to come up with a nice design for?

Any ideas welcomed.


Thanks

 

[marcros]

could you make a 3d book shape, stood up, open at a page and set onto a base?

 

[flanajb]

could you make a 3d book shape, stood up, open at a page and set onto a base?

I did think of something along those lines, but unsure how best to achieve it.

 

[adidat]

maybe a hard back book, with the outside made of timber then some pages made from veneer, perhaps to delicate for young hands?

 

[Anima]

Have you got a duplicate carver or could you make one? If so use a real book as a template and mount it on a base.

A bit of wood with literary characters(robin hood, Dracula etc) carved/etched/veneered/cnc'd into it and then mounted.

An open wooden book as the plinth and then scroll sawed characters or shapes shooting out.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wo...WI14CIDg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=320&bih=416#p=11

 

[ColeyS1]

What about a book box type thing

 

[Eric The Viking]

If you're careful with the way you mount it, your musical note(s) might be persuaded to work like a glockenspiel. IIRC, their notes/keys and those of xylophones are supported 1/7th of the way along from the end.

It works with spanners: if you support one at roughly 1/7th of its length (in from each end) you get a very tuneful note. I've even done it with denser hardwoods too. A note shape will diminish the effect, but not by much.

As for reading, can you carve a Kindle?



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