My First Christmas Gift Tag

Made on a Glowforge
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I made a variation of the Gift Tag tutorial. This is my first item carved on my new GF :grinning:

This is done on medium basswood and there are a couple of minor imperfections so maybe I should try the plywood.

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Nice custom tag!
Notice how where the letters join, the white spots? That’s because when fills overlap they cancel.
In Inkscape after you “Path>object to path” you select the text, then “Object>ungroup” then “Path>Union”.
If you use outline mode in “View” you can see how the lines overlap and after Union you see how they are joined. :sunglasses:

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Nice first tag. Don’t forget to fully weed your items.

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What is this weeding you speak of?

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Thanks for the #protip @PrintToLaser!

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Thx @dlkgood. I’m new to this, what’s “fully weed”?

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She’s referring to the bit of masking still inside the bells. To weed is to remove masking.

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Ah, gotcha. And the a, e and o too! Thank you for that!!!

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The best way to see the pesky little pieces of masking you missed is to post a pic of it. I always swear I got it all and I never do lol.

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Congratulations on doing your first engraving project! You will find so many things you want to do.

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