From: Fabber, Paul Zank, on December 20th, 2009
Project Brief: I thought this project that I did not long ago for the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition might be a good example of the kinds of things ‘Fabbers’ using CNC tools can do for ‘Makers’ with an idea for a project they want cut or machined. I was contacted to see if [...]
Project Brief: At 2018 Customs and Studio we specialize in designing and fabbing custom guitars. For this build, my Maker wanted a custom race car guitar body that he designed which will be painted up like the #18 M&M’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race car. The design was sent to me on a sheet [...]
Teenagers "Bubble" Bed.
Project Brief: A Maker approached us about designing a bed for her teenage daughter. The challenge to this project was that she wanted something unique and feminine but that also reflected her daughter’s personality. We drew out several designs for her to mull over and it was what she coined as the ‘Bubble [...]
Finished custom guitar.
Project Brief: At 2018 Customs and Studio we specialize in designing and fabbing custom guitars. For this build, my Maker wanted a custom guitar body that was a variation in its design and construction from an Ibanez Fireman, a guitar originally designed by guitarist virtuoso Paul Gilbert.
Materials: The body was [...]
Early concept drawing.
Project Brief: My Maker wanted a simple, light, and quick-to-assemble display cabinet for trade shows to help market a new line of women’s creams and beauty and bath products. The unit needed to ship flat on a small palette and to be able to be assembled by one woman with no tools. [...]
From: Fabber, Paul Zank, on October 15th, 2009
Project Brief: One morning a couple of springs ago, I checked the voicemail of my cell phone and found a message from Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. “Hi Paul. This is Ty Pennington and I was wondering if you would ….” Well, they had a pair of solid interior doors to his “SECRET [...]