It’s 3 layers thick (well, 4, if you count the cork ring on the very bottom). The bottom layer (not the cork) is a ring of thick acrylic. This leaves enough room for the battery and LEDs. The middle layer is just a solid medium transparent acrylic circle with a few score lines to try to make the flames pop a little. And the top layer is an outer ring of medium acrylic and the cork design in the middle.
Love this idea!!! Would be interested for a new one to go up each month. Can you imagine - 365 days of laser?! (Right now I’m at about 4 days/month… lol)
Infomercial (i.e. setup a situation NO ONE has and offer a solution NO ONE needs):
Announcer: Have you had this happen to you? Client: I know I was supposed to call you last week to set up that great deal, but I gave your business card to a friend and didn’t know your number. Sad Guy: If only there were a way to hand out two business cards at once. Announcer: And now there is! Introducing the SHARABLE business card! Your client can keep your card while sharing the pop out card with a friend. Amazing!!!
I really wanted to do this in cardstock, but the engrave just wasn’t visible. The top one is my best effort at pulling off cardstock anyway. I put a thin layer of black acrylic paint on yellow stock and engraved that. I won’t call it a success, but maybe someone can learn from my trials.
And the little tabs holding the embedded copy in place need to be a bit smaller. I torn the card getting the embedded one out.
Information is all parameterized in the Cuttle project:
I tried to post this yesterday, but the forum software won’t allow more than 3 consecutive posts by the same user. I couldn’t post again until someone else did. Thanks, @bwente !
Nov 10: New House Tag
Ok, I wasn’t sure what was meant by this one, so I made a configurable house sign.
There’s a flag, invertCorners, that can be flipped to give the following instead:
These are also pretty great for using scrap acrylic material from other projects. I wouldn’t cut the hanger piece from wood, but the markers themselves could be.
Close up of the completed ones and additional markers.
I feel like you should cross post some of these to the Free Laser Designs category as I think a lot of people would appreciate them! Especially the Christmas Ornament since it’s so timely…
Nov 13. Tool for a Tool: Soldering Iron Holder
Turns out I needed this! My cheap soldering iron didn’t come with a stand. At some point I’ll buy one of the coiled wire ones, but this will hold me for the little bit of soldering I do.
This is a no-glue setup, without the need to dial in the design to a snug fit. It uses a tusk tenon design to hold the legs in place. This has the added benefit of making it easy to disassemble if you’d like to store it flat.
It’s called a tusk tenon. I had to do some searching to find that. I knew it had to have a name of its own!
With a mortise and tenon, typically the hole doesn’t go all the way through and is glued. Technically, they are all mortise and tenon, but this one (and many others I found out) have specific names of their own.
It’s a really popular way to make furniture for camping (glamping to be more accurate) because it sets up and breaks down easily for flat-pack loading into a vehicle
