Custom made tool for cutting coral frag plug sockets into an HDU foam mold. Essentially pockets where coral fragments can be glued in to give the artifical reef a headstart. This geometry wasn’t possible to cut with the CNC router because it was an undercut. Made from heat treated tooling epoxy, cast in a rubber urethane mold.
Designed and fabricated in collaboration with Ryan Hoover, Nadia Nazar, Kate Boyer, and Rachel Rusk for Co-Lab