Materials / CNCyear
SURFACE STUDIES
MaterialHI-MACS, pine, aluminium
ProcessCNC carving, toolpaths as texture
ObjectSpeaker + remote
Contextcourse / own project?
What if the toolpath
is the decoration?
I wanted to see how far a CNC and a solid-surface material could go beyond flat and smooth. Every groove on this speaker is a single cutter pass, radiating out from the driver like sound itself, then sanded until the stone-like surface asks to be touched.
It’s where I first learned how HI-MACS cuts, sands and joins, and the direct ancestor of Meloen.
01 / Process
Texture by toolpath
2–3 sentences: how you generated the pattern (CAM strategy, cutter, ball nose?), how many tries it took, what surprised you about the material.
The CNC cutting the radial texture
Texture samples / test plates
Macro of the grooves in raking light
The remote’s wave texture, close up
Gosta Labs