We’ve been coming up with things to use scraps for, and a friend designed a Gloomhaven themed token/coin.
The runic script around the coin is from the game and reads “Gloomhaven”, the symbol in the middle is of one of the starting classes in the game, the Brute. We’re planning to do a whole set.
i LOVE this!
question about that reeded edge, so is it just the outer cut path comes inward by a fraction that causes it (for the hundred pointed star)? I guess this will need to be adjusted depending on how big your coin is?
In Inkscape make a star by selecting the Create Stars and Polygons tool. With that tool selected change the number of corners to 100 (or any big number.) Then play with the Spoke Ratio setting. The closer spoke ratio is to 1 the more reeded edge like it is. There is also a Rounded Corner setting so the points are less pointy. Make it any size you like. At this point you have a nice coin template.
I really like the look of it but it is a bit light-feeling.
Does anyone know what is the heaviest/densest material I can comfortably work with on the glowforge? A quick forum search didn’t seem to turn up anything.
I haven’t seen anything denser than solid wood, although with enough glue in it mdf may be heavier by volume??? If you made it in two pieces you could use the engrave feature to hollow out a pit for a round, metal blank. That would add some heft.
Or if you think outside the glowforge, use your coin to make a mold and then cast it in lead. If you think about it, who doesn’t need a home foundry?
Great stuff! I have so many Kickstarter boardgames, I don’t know where to start. I just finished cutting some components for the PnP of Tiny Epic Zombies. Hope to finally post some projects this weekend. Thanks again for the post…especially the way you grilled the edge!
Very nice, we did a similar project for our set for all the players when they take a 99. It was awkward sometimes to remember who was done versus waiting for end of round because they didn’t have cards in front of them so they made a greaat visual cue
I don’t know how much heavier it’s be, but it might be interesting to give it a shot in thicker acrylic. It would certainly have a different feel to it.
Thanks, it would be cool to get some 1/8" sheets of ironwood. No idea where though?
Looks like MDF is about 52 lbs / cubic foot. I think Bubinga is the heaviest wood Inventables has
and it’s only 56lbs so it probably wouldn’t make any difference.
I will give it a try when I get around to using my acrylic. Still playing with MDF and paper for now. Acrylic should be about 69 lbs / cubic foot so it would be a little heavier.
I was considering lasering some forms and then trying some cold-casting with resin & metal powder. We have some bronze powder at work that’s been sitting around for years, I could probably get some to play with…
The metal core seems like a pretty easy thing to do. Will keep it in mind .
I just made that game insert storage solution from thingiverse this week-end. Super grateful for the design work. I found a couple of slight errors in the Corel cut files, but overall it was a fantastic find.
