yepā¦ as to the PG veneer, Iām not sure which 3M adhesive it uses. Iāve only used it for indoor applications so farā¦ itās certainly not a ārepositionableā adhesive!
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Yeah, the only references to it Iāve been able to find have been that itās 3M, but nothing more specific than that. People who have skinned their laptops seem happy with it, so it seems pretty sturdy. Iām thinking about wrapping my Apple Pencil but want to know what Iām working with firstā¦clearly some experiments are in order!
Looks like it will outlast your device, so have at it. (I did an inlay on a leather iphone case and it is still quite stuck on there.)
apple pencil would look great in āwoodā, but that is a pretty tight circumference around which to wrap the veneer. Iām not saying it canāt be done, but you may end up cracking the veneer in the process. Either way, Iād love to see your results if you try it!
I think itās the potential permanence that is making me hesitate ā I need the āexcellently sticky but also not too bad to take off if you change your mindā 3M adhesive. 
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It hadnāt even occurred to me until I saw the Toast version:
I love how they didnāt try to totally wrap the curve but went for the old-school pencil look instead.
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the score lines there solve the issue of the tight circumference, and a hex-shaped thing is less likely to roll away from you on a table than a cylinder shaped thing.
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Nice tip! I was excited when I found that you could cut and paste additional copies of objects in your cut file within the GFUI. Very handy when I made only 3 legs for a 4 legged stool. Instead of having to go back to illustrator and make the change and add another leg and save and reimport it, I can just choose one of the legs and copy/paste and just shift it to where it fits.
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I was thinking about this last night @Jules, when after drawing a ālove noteā to his girlfriend, my son said to me for the third time. āDad, the āRā didnāt print quite right, could you make the left side thicker?ā This started last week when he saw how the GF could engrave a drawing like his coaster. So, Sunday (last) he started a block letter note of encouragement for his girl. Last night he started again and again. He didnāt hear me on the second time of saying I wanted it in marker, but he did hear me when I said, just draw out each letter and weāll move them around in Illustrator. That was my first hurdle. Scan all letters, photoshop out the white space inside and out of each letter, cut/paste one by one into Illustrator, resize and reorganize to make words. Get his approvalā¦ āDad, theyāre kind of light.ā Yes, son remember my two requests to do in marker? So, Live traced them, expand, ungroup, ungroup, ungroup, erase all the new white spaces. Save as svg, upload, etc. - 18 minutes, not bad. "Dad, the āRā is missing lines on the left, and the āIā is missingā¦ well you get the idea. Did two more prints and they aligned PERFECTLY!
Thanks to @Jules
No time to do any of my stuff, but time spent with my son, FINALLY something we can do together that we both enjoy. His car and his girlfriend, and now being a junior fire fighter are his main priorities. Thankfully the GF came along.
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Great! Iām glad itās coming in useful - I havenāt had much opportunity to use it yet, but it is kind of fun to play withā¦nudge, nudge, tweak, boom! Iām almost tempted to leave a few things out deliberately. 
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Maybe you could add a little corvette silhouette to things. Sort of whereās waldo.
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The Age of Fumes. Gas fumes & perfume 
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