One of my friends has been asking me to make him a golf marker. Apparently the general requirements around that are to have something round and about the size of a large coin or the ball that you can place on the ground instead of the ball itself. I liked the idea of a tiny spaceship and I had some 1/4" Corian scraps that would provide some material for it, so I started looking for suitable pictures to use on the web. Once I found one and converted it into vector (not actually a requirement since I was only going to etch it, but for future use it’s good to have one that scales) I was almost ready to go. First I had to do some testing to see if I could actually cut through it and luckily those went well.
I love the design and the idea but as an occasional golfer it’s occurred to me that that would be quite distracting.
As a result, I went looking for what the rules state about ball markers. This article discusses just and it turns out there are no actual rules on what you can use, only suggestions. Though, for my preference, I like something smaller and barely noticeable.
cool thing is, I best, with just a little tweaking you could get the design all the way down to button size (.5" or so), cut onto some 1/8 or 1/16 material, could make an excellent ball marker. I’d put in in my bag at least
Fantastic job!! (And for all we know… in a galaxy far, far way - it may actually be life size! (Bet 'cha never thought about that - little ant Darth Vader)
