$2 at the dollar store.
2 packs of craft sticks.
22 minutes glueing.
2 dozen options.
2 hours, 2 minutes engraving.
2 minutes, 2 seconds cutting.
0 hiccups.
0 pauses.
0 overheats.
0 errors.
I was curious about engraving over an uneven surface and inconsistent medium. I had some stock images and a full 2 dollars worth of craft sticks from the dollar store. (Well, I’ve got about $.22 worth left over.) Different pictures, different orientations. After engraving, I used the laser cut to crop the finished product. (We do see some of that image shift at the extreme edges from the image processing @staff is working so hard to fix.) The results? You tell me.
I did not customize this, just used default engraving settings for draftboard. In retrospect, customizing settings would have helped with one of the images. Very dark images don’t do well, so maybe modifying the image would have improved it, too. Final learning, setup the cuts at the same time as the engraves, even with optical, it can be very hard to line up the cuts afterwards.
They would have come out better with more customized engraving settings as the wood is certainly not , nor was it masked. At the same time, the ones that turned out well also had a very good visual effect from the sticks. I have multiple websites of royalty-free pictures and clipart to use for commercial source images.
The wave is my all time favourite image. I even create a brise fan made out of Colorcore(Formica colored all the way through) with each colour like a jigsaw locking into the adjacent pieces.
Amazingly it worked, but it would have been so much easier with a GF.
Did it all with a jeweler’s piercing saw.
I think I’ve mentioned this before, that the continual hopping back and forth is making me some sort of hybrid, with a flexible English of my own.
Bilingual, with both of them English.
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I can’t go to any store without browsing for laser stuff anymore. Dollar store rocks because you can almost walk out with half the store for under $30. My grocery trips are even 25-35% longer now for browsing. Must laser all the things!
Art canvas for engraving to paint coming within the next few weeks, I hope.
Possibly, but probably not.
But I am acquiring words and phrases -‘putting out the trash can’ and ‘gassing up the car’ have surprised my UK friends !
My wife has lived in various parts of North America since 1965 and her voice hasn’t changed since we were teenagers together in Margate.
That’s how I knew that I’d found her, when my first phone call after 60 years was answered by exactly the same voice .
John
, nor was it masked. At the same time, the ones that turned out well also had a very good visual effect from the sticks. I have multiple websites of royalty-free pictures and clipart to use for commercial source images.
