Honeycomb bed holdown pins

Jules · February 27, 2019, 8:28pm

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kathy · March 14, 2019, 11:47pm

These tips are a godsend for me!!! Thank you!!

helferdesign · March 22, 2019, 2:20pm

Thank You eljefe4.

Hernan

richard.schauland · March 23, 2019, 10:07pm

I just made some of these. They work great. Thanks.

jason.fuller0 · March 23, 2019, 10:24pm

They are great for when you have small pieces of proofgrade scrap, too. I’ve got a nearly full container that keeps getting more.

dan · April 23, 2019, 4:10am

Please pardon the moderator edit - this design is so useful I’ve pointed people to it many times, and I added the photo from your other post to make it more clear what these are and what they do. Thank you again for the outstanding design!

tomiannie · August 24, 2019, 12:05am

New Glowforge here - just wanted to say thank you SO much for these! I’m using some very bendy wood that was giving me fits, but now that I’ve got a pile of these beauties I’ll be in business! Thank you for sharing!

dklgood · August 24, 2019, 1:33am

Welcome to the forum. You are way ahead of the game if you found your way to the honeycomb pins and realize how valuable they are.

tomiannie · August 24, 2019, 2:23am

I found it entirely by happy accident, and I’m SO grateful!

mandmgarrett · September 3, 2019, 10:02pm

Okay, these were helpful on the Glowforge, but resized to twice as big, I can use them on my new Thunder Laser Nova 51 honeycomb! Awesome. Thanks again!

anakarenvargas143134 · October 11, 2019, 6:28pm

This absolutely has saved my work! I had ruined so many leather earrings before I searched for this!!! I used left iver draft wood! Thanks sooo much!!!

peteb · November 5, 2019, 10:39pm

thank you i use them every cut pretty much now

sharoncasto · November 10, 2019, 5:45pm

I cut a few of them but they are too big for the holes. I need to resize them but not sure of the measurements?

eflyguy · November 10, 2019, 5:46pm

They cut perfectly as the file is supplied. Try turning them 90º - the holes in the bed are not square.

sharoncasto · November 10, 2019, 6:03pm

I used 1/4” should it be 1/8” board?

eflyguy · November 10, 2019, 6:10pm

Yes. That was not stated in the original post, so an easy oversight. Most people use leftover scraps of the 1/8" (“Medium”) proofgrade draftboard.

geek2nurse · November 10, 2019, 6:21pm

I just made some out of my tiny acrylic scraps. I should have done it a long time ago—they’re so colorful!

drelleum · November 10, 2019, 8:21pm

Does red or green work better?

ChristyM · November 10, 2019, 9:46pm

Oooh. That’s a fun idea. I’ll have to see what scraps I’ve got lying around.

geek2nurse · November 10, 2019, 9:47pm

I haven’t really used them enough yet to know.