evansd2
December 12, 2022, 6:06pm
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Hmm this is interesting, the leather is that supple that it just forms like that? You didn’t have to remove any material in the corners to get it to be smooth? It seems like it would bunch up?
This can expand your possibilities:
So I had this idea for a while and finally got to it: an extension spacer for the lens so that you could engrave/score (or cut) the inside of a tray up to about 1” deep.
Normally you are limited to trays no more than 0.5” deep because of the limited focal sweet spot of the Glowforge, but if you physically move the lens down and lie to the Glowforge about the height of your material, it will happily do the job.
Here’s a quick makeshift “tray” that’s about 0.75" deep, a really shallow cardboard …
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