Author: kivamccr.xyz
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Welded Butterfly
A sculpture I made for SkillsUSA’s welded sculpture competition. First designed in SolidWorks, then cut on a plasma cutter, rolled, and welded.
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Box (Handmade)
This is a box I made during a wait at the SkillsUSA competition I went to. It’s some flooring scrap cut out on a table saw, fixed together with a nail gun. Then sanded down.
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Teseract
Just a random little trinket I made, designed in SolidWorks, and printed on a laser cutter.
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Thor’s Hammer
The hammer was designed in SolidWorks, and printed on a laser cutter. It had a lot of parts so I used SolidWorks composer to create a exploded view assembly animation. The inside is a scaffold with the plates mounted to form the shape.
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Planters (Large)
A set of planters I made for my grandmother, in the end they were painted light blue, and sealed with polyurethane spray paint. The wood itself was CNC’d out, and the design was made in SolidWorks.
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Fidget Toy
I had just started learning the hand mill at the time in my Precision Machining class at Sarasota Technical College. I had seen online something like this, and went hmmm. So I ended up milling out a cube of aluminum into this shape, and the drilling the holes through the faces so they meet in…
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Coasters
The design is laser cut wood base, a wooden ring, and a cork circle in the middle. The cork is engraved with any design you want. I oiled the wood.
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Hex Box
This is a jewelry box I made as a gift for my stepmother. Where the inlay is oiled lightly and the outer is darkly oiled. The inside has a hexagonal lattice shape which forms the inner structure for the outside to bond to. All of this was produced via a laser cutter.
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Foraminifera Wall Hanging
Foraminifera are fossilized zooplankton and phytoplankton, aka tiny shells. My mom studied them for her PhD. So I made a wall hanging by vectorizing Earnest Haeckel’s drawings, then laser cutting them.









