It has been some time since I last posted a project made on the Glowforge. With school started back up for my wife and kids, my day job keeping me very busy and keeping up with house projects, my activity here has greatly slowed. The time spent using the Glowforge however has remained quite steady. We have several larger projects ongoing that I hope to share later. One of them being my oldest daughter making her Halloween costume which has turned out to be quite an undertaking. I have also completed some projects for work which for privacy reasons I am going to refrain from posting here, but I am quite pleased with them as well as those that have received them. That being said, here are a couple projects I will share.
We have a trip to Universal Orlando planned. The girls and I spent Saturday morning making a wand box in anticipation of a visit to Ollivanders. I had picked up a music box mechanism that plays Hedwig’s Theme off ebay sometime back. We decided to top mount the winding key rather than the more typical bottom, just because we could. We will create a cradle/mount specific to the wands the girls receive or choose once in hand. It was a really fun project and proof of concept.
Another project ongoing is something my wife and her first grade team are working on. Their classes are creating a human sundial on the school property. There are 24 travertine tiles with etchings created by the students representing things they associate with each month. There are also 12 bricks etched with the hours. I will document further once the installation is complete. Here is how the brick and travertine look etched.
The travertine etched unevenly. Some areas turned white and some shades of brown to black. Since the materials were donated, we decided to make due. A thinned wash of black acrylic paint provided a consistent look with more contrast than the natural etching alone.
Yeah, I had noticed a differential in some granite, but I’m surprised that travertine exhibited that considering its nature of precipitating from solution.
As a fun woodturning project, I made a wand for my Potter loving niece. I made it out of bocote, and planned to make a box for it when my arrives, hopefully before Christmas. This puts my lame design to shame. Too darn cool.
Love those projects, especially the wand box. I have a niece that would love something like that. My wife would your sundial markers. Could be a cool third grade science project.
Very well done! Love the etched channel for the sliding door and the living hinge. The use of the different woods for contrast worked beautifully as well!
arrives, hopefully before Christmas. This puts my lame design to shame. Too darn cool.
