About me¶

Hi! I am Evan Park. I am a student at Charlotte Latin School, Class of 2026. This year, I am praticipating in FabAcademy along with my classmates at Charlotte Latin School. I have always had intrest in digital fabrication since I was little but had no means to explore it more until my freshman year where I was able to experience it for the first time. I hope to use my knowledge from FabAcademy to create things that benefit my community.

My background¶

I was born in a San Jose, California. I don’t remember much from that time, only small things like what my house looked like. I moved to Katy, Texas when I was five years old where I made some of my first friends and found my fascination with the digital world when I got a computer one Christmas. I then moved here to North Carolina when I was ten and started attending Charlotte Latin School when I was fourteen.

Previous work¶

Because I have little experience, I have created little things outside of my classroom. But during Pre-Fab, I created ​many things that I am proud of.

Wooden Pen¶

We were given a Gold Slimline Pen Kit by Rockler, to create this pen, we would need to learn how to wood turn to create pieces of the pen.

The first thing I did was sand the pieces that would go inside of our wood down so that there would be more surface area for it to stick.

Then we used a bandsaw to cut a hole into our given pieces of wood so that they would be perfect size for our pen, we made sure that the length of the wood was the same length as the thing we sanded down

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We then utilized the Jet Mini Lathe to drill a hole into the wood. This machine spun the wood incredibly fast while you manually insert a drill into the wood to drill a hole. the speed is the how fast the wood turns and the feed is how much of the drill we put into the wood.

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After this we glued our sanded pieces into the wood and applied a glue accelerant

After gluing our pieces into the wood, we put the wood pieces on the wood turner. The woodturner allowed us to shape the wood down to a size that would be manageable on our pen. When putting the wood pieces on, we put bearings on each end of the wood and a metal piece to keep the wood in place. We then used a square shaped pen turning tool to get the majority of the wood down and a circle shaped pen turning tool to create better details in the wood like bevels. Once we had shaped the wood to our liking, we then sanded the wood by starting at a low grit and increasing the grit over time.

After we made our wood smooth, we applied a thin layer of glue to it and also used a glue accelerant, we applied the glue by using a plastic piece and using the turning of the wood to apply the glue throughout

Now all we have to do is assemble the pen, we did this by using a machine which pressed the pieces into each other tightly which allowed them to fit into one another.

This is my completed assembled pen.