Made several of these last couple of weeks to provide individualized signage for each horse from our stable at a show. The trainer is French, hence the fluer-du-lis design.
Fun little project. Learned tons about the mysterious differences between engraving “graphics” vs. “images” and how to use Inkscape to transform between the two.
The top fluer-du-lis is made from low-cost baltic pine then stained. The placard is from proofgrade maple plywood that came in the starter kit with the machine. I could, just barely, fit two signs per sheet.
Grommets and chains from the hardware store, along with stain and varnish.
Also about one zillion pieces of cut-up cardboard boxes used for prototyping
I think a lot of us here take those differences for granted because of work on 3D printers, cutters, cnc. other lasers, etc.
We forget how hard it was flattening that learning curve.