I got some bonus studio time last weekend and, put the new vacuum tray to use in prototyping a dice pouch.
Recently, I was playing with designing some custom patterns for printing fabric. The inside and outside of the main body are a couple matching circles of one of those. The front, back, bottom and flap are from the JPP Saddle Collection faux leather, engraved with variants of one of my Celtic spiral designs.
The layers are held together with an iron-on glue (Heat N Bond). Like the fabric and faux leather, that cut nicely on the vacuum table. The faux leather is stitched on (with the reverse of the stitching hidden by the lining) and, I ran an overlock stitch around the fabric circles to discourage fraying.
The drawstring holes are reinforced with grommets. The drawstring is a heavy 4mm thick kumihimo braid with steel ends added.
The only issue there is that the circle is 10.3 inches, pretty close to the limit one is going to get cutting that on the laser directly without some clever hack (e.g., cutting a half circle on folded fabric somehow).
One of the things I am enjoying about this is efficiency. Once I had the design down, I built the prototype in about an hour, while filming everything I did.
I had to read your post twice.
New Vacuum Tray + Dice being vacuumed up into the bag
How did he get that in there?
LOL
Thanks for the (personal) laugh and the great ideas!
