How small does scrap have to be before you cannot make something?

[kelley1]

Cook? what is this ‘cook’ of which you speak?

[rbtdanforth]

@brokendrum

will force a visible air gap on the pieces (no give with plastic).

That design actually has a lot of “give” and I considered having them be just a hair narrow with a bit of a square area, matched by a square engrave on each side.

I know there is a lot of “give” as I have had these work in acrylic as well …

Making Bail

Making a lot of hanging things, earrings, pendants, light catchers, and other decorations, that might be hanging on jump rings but would like to have bails of the same material. I had played with wooden chain that was not a spectacular success but it suggested a way that such a bail might be made. This design is a bit extreme and every case might not survive, and the trick to making it work is in making it spiral rather than opening the gap in the same plane but it does work as seen here… [IMG…

[CMadok]

Unfortunately, it’s the main chore I must do since no one will do it for me.

[rbtdanforth]

@CMadok

I must do since no one will do it for me.

Best weight loss diet ever- “You have to prep and cook your own food”

[CMadok]

Lol, I wish something like that would work, but unfortunately it doesn’t. I have one who will eat everything in a nasty hodgepodge collection she makes herself, and two who decide eating is not worth the effort. Since I can’t afford to keep buying new clothes and groceries daily, it’s a chore I must do for the rest of us to survive.

[Helene]

My rule for scrap was to make meeples until they wouldn’t fit anymore.
Now I have too many for Christmas presents and a brand new pile of scrap to decide what to do with!

[CMadok]

I had to google what a meeple is. That is interesting, I never considered using game pieces that didn’t come with a game before.

I think the majority of the scraps I was holding on to were more like “possible stud earring” size. A meeple wouldn’t fit. The remaining scraps I have would probably fit small things like that.

[rbtdanforth]

@Helene

brand new pile of scrap to decide what to do with!

Those are cool shapes! I would turn them into business cards (putting your shop contacts etc) and hand them out to any you meet. They will not be throwing them in the trash as they might any paper card,

[rhianna600]

@CMadok

meeple

I use them to make small earring cards. the file came with an earring pattern i had so i just change the engraving to suit whatever the earring topic is

[hansepe]

Too small to make Escher fish / lizards / birds

Another SVG Library

I have large number of svg files from the things I’ve made sat on my google drive. My blog is now terribly unweildy with 1100 laser cut items displayed upon it so I figure I might as well open up the back end and let people access my files directly. My Google Drive Folder of Artwork Here are a few particular items of note, don’t forget you can find more information about each file by digging around the blog a little. [14715647_10154519722036678_2845990095532929441_o] [IMG_6149 (Custom)] […

Look in the Escher folder on his Google Drive.

[rbtdanforth]

@CMadok

I could use mine as mini roofing shingles, but they were too thick to look nice.

How hard can it be?

[CMadok]

Mine didn’t look like that. They were rectangular walnut scraps from cutting dollhouse window frames for someone- .5"x 2" long, all 1/8" thickness…and they looked like one piece all put back together when I tried them. It just didn’t look nice. Anyways, I lost interest in storing them any longer.

[rbtdanforth]

@CMadok

Mine didn’t look like that.

That is a gray map that if engraved could look much better.

[CMadok]

Ah, I see. Not sure my tiny scrap was worth trying to engrave anything on.