First 6 months of projects

Man, this is been quite the journey. I haven’t had a lot of time to be active on the forms but I have loved watching everyone use their machines!!

I’m about 6 months into my laser-based business. I have absolutely loved every second of using this machine!! It’s quite amazing. Not to brag but simply for those of you wondering, I’ve done about $18,000 Worth of Custom sales so far. Things are pretty consistent and continue to increase. (hit 5,000 followers on instagram the other day :astonished::flushed:)

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Sorry for giving you all arthritis from scrolling this far down. :joy:

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Great work! Congratulations on your business!

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Whoa. That’s a lot of signs. Great work. Mega post too.

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Whew - you have been busy! Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work.

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so much goodness!

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I love you man! I just knew that great things were going to happen when you got a Glowforge. Thanks for sharing and inspiring and making people so happy!

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Someone has not been sleeping.

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Amen brother! Are you trying to cripple us here? :smile:
(Totally kidding…I know you’ve made the Glowforge crew’s day for them.)

I wanna know how you made the pug.

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Just fabulous. The one that really caught my eye was the engraving around the cylinder. Care to share how you did that. I can’t get my keyboard to give my the question mark symbol.

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Great work. My cellphone plan data limit just barfed.

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I do not think that is everything.
What are you holding back?

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Oh Jeremy…we’ve missed you here! I am SO impressed with how well your business has been going and I congratulate you on that. What a great round up of your work. Thank you so much for stopping by again and sharing such great news.

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Whoa whoa whoa! Here’s looking at you kid!

Lol, amazing work! Congratulations on your business!

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Oh My Days!!! I LOVE everything!!! Please share how you did the rolling pin though!!! I’m totally impressed!! xx
:heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

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Holy crap all of these are just awesome.

How much do you use proofgrade vs stuff you’ve sourced yourself in your projects?

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I think my finger fell off lol. It all looks great. What did you use to seal your cutting boards for food?

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All I could think was “He lasered a pug?”

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I am so impressed right now you don’t even know!

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Awesome Job! Lots of happy customers as well.

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