This time I wanted to try to paint the edges but not use a brush. So I tried thinning acrylic paints and dipping the layers to try to keep the detail from getting gummed up while also getting coverage.
I’m the end the coverage wasn’t great but I kind of liked the effect. It’s possible that I might have better luck with proper primer instead or just watered down acrylic paints, but quarantine measures are in effect and I certainly can’t justify going out for this.
Anyway, I’m bumped right up against the practical limit for how thin that top layer can get: the thin bits are 1mm (as designed, even thinner after kerf gets through with it), making the top layer a floppy flexible ring more than a rigid layer. Handle with care. Bottom line is that there’s really no way to get much smaller than this without a different design.
That is stunning. I would not want the designs to argue as they would with complex shape and complex paint however.
A simple box with an agate like finish however…
Done as an engrave even as a couple layers at a time with the two or more layers holding the rest in place you can get to a quarter mm or so before the material is so thin that cutting one side burns through to the other.
Not a necessity. Takes a lot of Glowforge time but the design work is many times the GF time so the GF has it to spare while you are working on the design part. And as you are wanting not to burn everything anyway high speed can leave the Wood very clean
3 hours and 22 minutes. This is way too long. Oh well, I said I’m going to do it, so here we go.
This is why I really don’t like big engraves, and I’m only doing this at 6.3" square. (and yes I know how to speed up engraves, trust me, I wouldn’t be choosing these settings if they weren’t necessary)
