I just got back from vacation for 2 weeks. The first week, we were in Iceland. It was fantastic! I definitely recommend it.
Maybe its because I’ve been spending way too much time on the forum, but I noticed a lot of laser made stuff in all the tourist shops. From laser cut fridge magnets of Iceland to really fancy candle holders. I unfortunately didn’t think to take a picture of them.
However, I did take some pictures of the menu from this one restaurant we went to.
I’m gonna tie this into the Movie Quote thread: “Iceland is very green, and Greenland is full of ice.”
And thank you for posting that; very cool!
I’ve said it on another thread, though, that one drawback of technology is that by the time “regular” people like me seem to be able to get it, everyone else seems to get it, too…oh well.
Except for cell phones…I’ve had one since about 1992…I really miss those days, when no one else had one, lol
I have friends that visit Iceland every year for a week mostly horseback riding. My grandfather went there for work as a heavy equipment mechanic for a year or so in the 1950s. My only visit was a one hour layover in the airport.
Most of the laser work in Iceland is actually done by one shop, owned by a friend of mine. Palmi Einnarsonn at http://www.geislar.is/index.php/en/ has a pretty fantastic fiber laser and does beautiful work with it. I’m sure that at least some of what you were seeing was his work.
Awesome photos, thanks for sharing!! Your captions are pretty great too
Those menus are super cool! There’s a bar near my office that has menus with a piece of engraved wood as the cover, I definitely always geek out a little when we go haha.
P.S. when you lose charge in your car battery, check the weather before you decide to walk to the Advanced Auto down the street and then get caught in a thunder storm on the way back. Death drops by and offers to carry it for you lol
Noooo, I actually had one that was about the size of today’s smart phones. It was 95% dial pad, of course, lol, but small and light enough to fit comfortably in a dress shirt pocket.
We used to know a RM for Sears when I was a kid. She always gave us the fake display model phones and pagers when I was a kid. We didn’t care they weren’t real. We strapped em on to are courderoy pants anyway because we were cool like that.
Odd question for you @joe. Do you remember if the laser menu had a tendency to spring open? or want to be open? I was trying to mimic that design today and found that the hinge really wanted to lay flat. If i was to make that same menu, i would want to put a latch on it just so it would stay shut.
I didn’t think about it at the time. They stayed closed without a latch or anything. They didn’t have much springyness at all. Not sure how that was done. I can make a few guesses, but nothing based on emperical data.
Here’s another image of the back side, closed. Not sure if that will help.
