Basic- fancy wall stuff

[Sawa]

Made this-

Hanging bit

And then, embossing magic!

Proofgrade maple ply. Inkaido embossing powders, as we previously discussed and I’ve been getting fancy with

[Jules]

Love the shiny!

[dan]

Fancy - I’ll say!

[smcgathyfay]

Very shiny Love how crisp and clean it is… Nice job!!

[slackk1994]

Wow. Amazing! Very fancy indeed!

[ptodd]

The embossing powder does kick it up a notch. Very nice!

[cynd11]

Awesome! It looks like we have at least two embossing powder experts on the forum now!

[johnwills]

Wow! The embossing powders really add another dimension.

[Sawa]

And not only did it visually turn out great, I learned a bit, too. I had a bit of a panic, every time I tried to send the job to the glowforge it would take a long time preparing and go purple on me. I had the doubleyous and the fish as individual objects, black, and the border was in blue. All were svg and loaded as upload. Going back into inkscape and merging all objects together as one, is what finally did the trick and allowed it to print.

[walterpalmer]

How is this kind of thing done? I’m clueless.

Does the gf create a groove then heat the powder?

Thanks

[jrnelson]

heat embossing generally works by sticking down the powder and then employing a heat gun to melt and/or seal it to the substrate. you don’t need a glowforge to do it, but it does make it a lot easier to follow an engrave.

[Xabbess]

I’ve done quite a lot using embossing powder and my PRU. Here are three of my projects. Looking forward to some wonderful creations from you when you get your Glowforge! Cheers!

Don't take any wooden nickels

The coin of my realm…it is the way of my people. PG maple ply, engraved both sides, gold embossing powder. Filling up unused spaces on my material. Sorry…should have given a reference…slightly larger than a quarter. [image] [image]

Still hung up

…on embossing powder and coins of the realm. This is about 3.5" across…pretty much coaster size. Just a little ‘thing’ for my brother. Not a wooden nickel but a wooden denarii. I really need to get a life and move on to other things…but, this is just so darned much fun! An offshoot of this is that it is giving me valuable learning time in my design app (Affinity Designer for Mac), which will pay off over the long run. With the glory…or should I say ‘glo…

X Marks the Spot

Simplistic in design and a cinch to make with a pre-release Glowforge and my old standby favorite, embossing powder, these little pins harken to buried pirate treasure, your location in a shopping mall…or souvenirs for sale in a park gift shop. These are one more little fun thing I’m making for guests during our family get-together in July. I will admit, it’s for selfish reasons……because I can, because it’s really fun, and last but not least……becauseI want to show off a little (or maybe a lot).…

[Sawa]

I had engraved the dark parts, but colored with the embossing powder on the uncut parts of the finished PG maple ply.

[smcgathyfay]

Heres a thought…for @Xabbess too…
Might work on smaller designs. When I lightly etch through the masking, if often leaves a sticky residue…wonder if you could use that technique on parts where you want the embossing powder to stick??

[jrnelson]

yeah, that’s basically what i meant - you had an outline that made it easy to put the powder exactly where you wanted (as opposed to if i were trying to do it with a stencil, say…).

[Xabbess]

@Sawa

powder on the uncut parts

That’s what I did, too.

@smcgathyfay

that technique on parts

That would be interesting.With the new low power settings, that could now be even more possible. And even if that didn’t work, you could use adhesive on the engraved parts before removing the masking.

[Sawa]

Ahh, my misunderstanding. I thought you meant putting the powder in the engraved channels.