Minecraft Diamond/Iron Pickaxe

Hello! This was a project that I had to do for class so I thought that I would share it on here!

For this project, I used a Shopbot but you could definetely do it with any other tools, the Shopbot was what my project had to be though.

I also used a 1/2" thick piece of oak wood. I chose oak because it was relatively cheap and it was strong. I'm sure any other type of hard wood would work as well. Lets begin!!!

The way that I cut out the pickaxe was simply I used a program to get a picture of the pickaxe and it stenciled out the outsides of it. If you are going to be hand doing this, each square is about 1" long.

Here is a photo of me cutting out the wood.(sorry for the bad quality)

The second photo is what my worst nightmare would be:the bit snapping. I looked at the project file and it looked just fine. Oh well, I loaded a 2nd bit into the machine and it started cutting again. Now onto laying out the painting marks!

For laying out, I simply just took a ruler and made a straight line from each corner of the piece as you see in the first picture.

For taping, I first taped the front and back side's edges because I would be painting the edge of pickaxe first. Now onto painting!

This was by far the longest step to do for me. It took so long because I had this class every other day, so it took about 2 weeks all together.

For the edge of this pickaxe, I just used plain black because it didn't really matter what the color was, so black was the new.....black I guess.

The reason why I chose to paint one side diamond and the other iron was because I thought just one color type was boring, and I also didn't have to buy 2 pickaxes. Money saved:)

The first side that I painted was the iron side because it was the easiest to do. To make the different shades of gray, I just took black paint and kept adding white to it. Every different color that I did of gray I would just add a little more white.

As you can see, I did start to make the brown shade while doing the iron. Unfortunately, I did not take pictures of the brown process, sorry! All I did for the brown is start with a dark shade of brown and to make it lighter I, you guessed it, added white to it.

For taping, I just taped the black edge that I had painted before so no gray would get onto it. And every different shade I would just tape around the square so the different color would not blend.

Now onto the diamond side!

The diamond side was probably the hardest side that I had to do for this project. The color you need to start with this project is turquoise. After I got the turquoise, I added brown to it to give it a ugly blue color.

For the lighter blue shades, I used the turquoise-brown blend and kept adding white to it to make it lighter.

The only time I did not use the turquoise was when I painted the lightest blue, which I used a color kinda close sky blue, sorry that it is not shown in the pictures!

For this, I used a clear coat that would protect the paint and wood from decaying away. I did just one coat of it and it took around 30 minutes to dry.

Here are the final outcomes for both sides of the pickaxe. It now rests on my wall just in case I need to do some late night mining. Enjoy!!!!!