Man that is a nice find! Especially that 1" material. A square foot of that from TAP Plastics is $50-$60.
We have a number of boat builders in my town and one shop that makes acrylic windscreens for them… Hoping some day I can pay a visit and take some “scrap” off their hands.
Wow. Great find! Symbiosis at its best! You paid them to haul their trash away! 
I’m going to have to look around town now. Who knows what one can find! And it’s great you’ve now built up a relationship with them so you can come by and get more here and there!
They have a box waiting for me once a week now =)
if you haven’t seen them, you can buy “frosted” vinyl cling sheets that work well for this. done right, it honestly just looks like frosted glass.
Ooooh man…what a dilemma…!
Here are the two engraves. I already had one in cast, so I just did one in extruded as well. Probably not the best image to use for an example, but you can hopefully see which is of better quality.
this image upsets me (without justification)
Aye, it was a bad example, but you can see how the extruded acrylic has a hard time with details, and what’s harder to see is how it warps a lot more easily around engraved areas. The clear sections aren’t as clear.
It looks a lot better engraved into wood =P.
That looks awesome. Can you tell us how you did it?
Sure. I ran the engrave as normal, it was a vector engrave. Dark setting. This was on proofgrade maple ply. Then I selectively peeled off the masking to brighten up the pieces I wanted to pop out more.
It’s a tedious process, but my girlfriend loves watching movies we’ve both already seen, so this is one of the things I do while she’s doing that. Haha
I really like the shaded areas that you did. I wasn’t sure we would be able to do that.
i mean they’re both awesome, i’m just being childish about mixing franchises 
i super like that second one though, seriously.
It’s just soot from the engrave that’s collected on the masking. I really liked how it looked as well which is what made me just decide to leave it on there =). I made an acrylic case for it and now my gf uses it as a coaster at work =P
Me too (sorta), until I realized a vector cut would separate the two universes, so to speak. Awesome optimization either way! 
You’ve never seen stargate wars?
Back when Stargate: SG-1 was on Showtime(?), Farscape was on SyFy (or whatever they called themselves back then). Both were on Friday nights, so my wife and I started to refer to them as FarStarGateScape.
WOW, all super awesome, and great comparisons…thank you!!
Wow, that is outstanding! I really need to learn more about vector engraves…
I’ll be honest, I’m actually surprised by how well the extruded engraved. You can tell the difference, but there wasn’t as much difference as I expected.
These are absolutely fabulous in the detail and creative use of operations, design and materials.
