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I had the opportunity to do some design and fabrication work for Six-N-Sticks. This is a start up here in Ann Arbor which celebrates the craft beer industry by making beer caddies, and selling specialty beer glassware.I did all the design work in Rhino and toolpath programming in Mastercam. The first iteration of the designs had 3/4" thick sides and 7/8" thick dowels. We eventually slimmed these down to 1/2" material everywhere and 3/4" dowels for the handles. Here are a few examples of the first caddies shown publicly at the Michigan Summer Beer Festival:
Four pack, 22 oz. bottles, open sides:
Six pack, 12 oz. bottles:
Six pack, 12 oz. bottles, open sides:
All the prototypes and first production caddies were cut on a 3-axis Onsrud Router at the Fab Lab at Taubman College. Here are some progress pictures of the 4 pack, 22-25 oz bottle caddies:
