I first saw Glowforge’s promotional video as an ad on Facebook, about 1/2 way through the pre-sale campaign. At the time I had a CNC and was struggling with everything I’d try to make. Broken bits, misalignment between bit changes, g-code nightmares, rebooting computer from software updates mid-cut, etc. So the implied simplicity of the Glowforge seemed to be speaking directly to me. I watched the video a few times over the next couple of days and eventually pulled the trigger on it. I’d showed it to my wife so she wasn’t entirely surprised when I told her a few days later that I’d ordered it. Then the wait began, and continued and continued and continued. Fortunately she was my voice of reason and talked me out of it any time I considered cancelling due to a new delay.
Fast forward to receiving my Pro this fall. For the first couple of months it kind of sat while life got in the way. Then I made a few things for a vacation rental that we own word started to get around, and before I knew it things had exploded for me.
Just a few months later, this “Facebook ad laser” has real potential to have turned something fun into a legit business for us. Just today I had my first wholesale discussion with a company based out of Chicago. People are seeing our products and searching us out and word of mouth is spreading incredibly fast.
The best part of all of this is that when I ordered the Glowforge, I did it in HOPES of being able to make enough money with it so that in the future if we had a baby, I’d be able to work from home while watching him/her. Well our son was born in July, and if things keep going the way they have been, I’ll be home with him full time MUCH sooner than I could have ever anticipated when this all started.
After the massive headache that was my CNC, I can’t say enough of how thankful I am that the Glowforge just works, and easily!