Manufacturing Process

The bowls all involve the use of a laser cutter, cutting out the vector onto a sheet of acrylic (Clear, Black, White). The bowls then go through the process of hand sanding. As 5 were produced, the sanding process only occurred on the outer edge. These outer edges had to be filleted slightly and all laser cutting marks around the edge had to be removed. This process involved the use of 4 different types of sand paper including; 180, 240, 360 and 600 wet & dry.

Phase one was using the 180 p to remove any laser cutting marks outside the edges. After this was done, fillets were created to round the edges off. For a further refined contour, 240 p was used after the 180 to clean up any scratch marks but also smooth out the surface.

Five fresh bowl

Revealing the acrylic

Sanding with 180

Phase two involved removing all the shiny surfaces on both faces of the bowl. This process utilized the 360 p grade of sand paper. Phase three, the final phase involved the use of 600 p wet and dry. This process cleans the surface and also removes any light scratches created from phase two.


Sanding with 320

Wet and dry sand 600




Edward Yao