isaacwang: For God so loved the World

Esther's (my beloved older younger sister) birthday is on July 12. The problem with having a birthday on July 12, however, is that it's during the summer time which means missions. In the case of this past year, Esther was indeed on a missions trip to Kyrgyzstan which meant I couldn't bestow upon her a birthday gift. So, I decided to embark on a quest to make something for her as a belated birthday gift. This is an account of the Adventure of Custom Water Container:

Stanford Dining has been giving out these all-steel SWIGG water bottles with terribly ugly designs (see pictures below). I decided to spruce up the decals a bit and make something that looked pretty cool and give it to Esther for her birthday gift. I figured some kind of God allusion would be neat-o, and it just so happened that the water bottle featured a picture of the Earth, which instantly reminded me of John 3:16. With the original inspiration from Taiei (one of my roomies), I originally decided to use tape and a sandblaster to try to fit all of John 3:16 on the bottle. However, that proved extremely difficult, so I modified my plan to just have the words "For God so loved the world" in a semicircle around the globe. Here is the process in 4 easy steps:

1) Design the logo in this program called SolidWorks.

2) Upload the design to a laser cutter in the Stanford Machine Shop. I used the laser cutter to cut a sheet of masking tape.

3) Layout the masking tape design of the OUTLINE on the bottle (since the laser cutter cut away the small letters). Then lay out the letters where they lined up on the design. THEN take off the outline and voila! the letters are all arranged on the bottle.