NYC Subway Cuff

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By Becky Stern
Posted 2009/07/08 @ 9:06 pm
Category General

This NYC Subway cuff by Tiffany Burnette would be a reasonable remake for a beginning metalsmith using a toner-transfer etch process (or a laser cutter) and a bracelet mandrel. Via Core77.

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4 Responses to NYC Subway Cuff

Mig on July 9th, 2009 at 1:19 am said:

I like the design but I have tried to wear something similar to this once when I went to some party dressed as a roman soldier. They are so frikkin’ uncomfortable! Your skin constantly gets pinched and you feel like you have wrist brace on.

BTW what is the tone-transfer etch process?

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- Nate on July 9th, 2009 at 7:23 am said:
  
  Toner etching is usually done on circuit boards, but it works pretty well with other metals.
  
  Basically, you print a mirror image of what you want etched onto some glossy paper, and iron it onto the metal. This provides the etch-resist. Drop the metal into the etchant chemical, and whatever is covered in toner is left (relatively) unetched.
  
  Instructables.com has several posts about it; google will turn up loads of sites, too.
  
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Lame on July 10th, 2009 at 8:20 am said:

So i bought one for my girlfriend.. it’s a map but it’s not a nyc subway map. it has nyc names on it but the actual map portion isn’t even similar to the nyc map.

i was really disappointed.

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- Collin Cunningham on July 10th, 2009 at 8:41 am said:
  
  hmm – I assume the one you received looks like the one above?
  
  If so, from the portion I can see, it looks like the station relationships are accurate – tho it appears lateral distances have been compressed to accommodate the bracelet format.
  
  http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm
  
  [spectatorAnalysis release;]
  
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