Should have kept us guessing… 
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The silverware tray kept slipping around, so I made a simple custom box to fit behind it in the drawer.
Made another for behind the roll-products to stop them moving around.
Love the laser for stuff like this!
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Stands made from 1/8" MDF, that hold 20" Diameter circles made from 2.5" thick pool noodles, for indoor micro-drone racing.
The noodles are called “Hoops” and the class of micro-drone is called a “Whoop”.
I give you the “Whoop Hoop” ™.
And yeah, my hoops came out more “toilet bowl” shaped than round (ignoring the square one of course). I had to splice 1.5 pool noodles together for each hoop and I used a 6" piece of PVC pipe to splint the joint (the noodles are hollow). I only realized after it was all glued together that I should have bent the PVC a little, first.
Measured diagonally from the center of one prop to the center of the prop on the opposite corner, this quadcopter measures 3". But I have a smaller version that’s only 2.5" or so. Top speed is about 15MPH for this one, but I have a custom-designed version that’s good for about 40MPH. Video is transmitted live from the little camera and I wear video goggles to remotely pilot the quad around the race track.
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What did he have when he was not sitting on the mantle? 
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is there a thread for “impractical cuts”? My disasters would be good for a chuckle.
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I think somewhere in the way back there was a colossal fails thread.
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A wooden leg named Smith?
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Nice. I did have to look that one up 
I remember it now! Cool that Dick Vandyke played in the most recent version!
I can’t help reading sentences that way! In technical writing it is very challenging to make everything 100% unambiguous.
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What was the name of his other leg?
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My daughter’s legs are named Patrick (1- about a million now). No idea why. And they are titanium and carbon fiber.
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Made a little tag to glue to the side of my bread maker with the ingredients for the loaf I make every week (you’d think I’d remember…)
Created completely in the UI using the “Trial” features.
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Water, wheat, salt, and…Kermit?
I’m sure if I were a bread maker I’d totally get it, but what is the 4th?!?
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Good Eats fans will get it…
If not,
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Times like this I wish I could like more than once.
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That’s fabulous! and now I kinda wanna start a starter 
Not a show I’ve ever watched regularly, but always interesting when I do.
It was time for another practical cut. I finally decided to hook up the Bose Acoustimass Subwoofer and Dual-Cube speakers in my small exercise room next to the office. Because it is small, I wanted to avoid using the stands for the Cube speakers and mount them on the wall.
Problem was, I wanted them in the corners close to the ceiling, and Bose, with their very sturdy mounts, provides only a small 2x2 inch paper template for drilling the four holes required for each speaker.
While I could certainly measure, mark, drill, and then realize I dropped the paper by half an inch or so, and be miserable with even the most slightly unbalanced speaker locations, I realized there was no need for that!
I have a Glowforge! So, I determined the exact dimensions, designed a template that would let me easily “punch” the starter holes so the mounting plate was exactly two inches from each wall and six inches from the ceiling, and get ready to go! It also had a hole to match MOST of the mounting template provided, and the screw hole locations at the corners of that hole, in the exact locations for the starter drill holes.
Found some scrap Draftboard and realized I was going to need to cut it in the middle to fit given the voids from previous cuts, and like a dope, pulled out a hand saw to make a few cuts…… Halfway through the first, I thought STOP! Just drop a cut line from the new Beta feature, so I put the saw down, went to the PC, and dropped the line right where it needed to be, and Presto! I had the size of scrap I needed to be able to cut the template (had to go RIGHT to the edge, which is why it needed to be in the center of the bed.
Ran the cuts, and of course, realized as it was finishing that I forgot to ignore the center placement square I made, so the key part I needed was no longer attached to the template.
Took the other half of the scrap Draftboard, marked that pesky extra square to IGNORE, and hit the magic button. Less than two minutes, later, I had my draftboard template with the perfect offset distance from wall and ceiling.
I then lined up the paper template JUST to be sure, and it was spot on!
Held up the tool in each corner, punched the starter holes, and got to drilling and assembling. Placement was perfect. Mounted the plates, ran the speaker wire, put up the speakers, tested them, then installed the Legrand Cordmate for the wire, moved everything (except the elliptical) back in place, and decided to stop and post the result.
While I realize most folks probably aren’t undertaking the exact same job, I hope the IDEA inspires you to think about how to use your ‘Forge in making templates for other “around the house” work where precision is important (at least for those with a bit of OCD!)
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This is freaking awesome. Good work 
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So smart.
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And… another one: The daughter of two good friends of ours just graduated college, and a group of us are doing a “Graduation Parade” in cars, with appropriate social distancing later today. My wife wanted to make some hand signs using cardstock with memes / pictures she found on the internet, and asked me yesterday if we had Paint Stirrers / Stick that we could use to hold them up.
I said yes… and then realized that the only ones I had were the smaller “tongue depressor” style, which wouldn’t be big enough. Then, of course, it hit me! I have a Glowforge. (Seems to be a theme, right?)
Looking at some of the paint stick stirrer designs on Amazon, one of them actually had a ruler next to it, which made it VERY easy to determine where to design and cut the shape for the handle.
Note: because I was doing this “quick and dirty” I did not bother to clean up the design - just let the extra cutting around the hanlde section cut - adds maybe 10-15 seconds per stick of cutting time - and would have taken me much longer to edit the nodes, split the path, remove the extra sections, and re-join them. (I’ll post the design in Free Designs in a bit.)
Made 14 of those (from a single sheet of draftboard @ $4.00), cleaned off the edges - using a generic magic eraser - with all of them taped together (it’s much more efficient that way), and paired them with the Tounge Depressor style smaller sticks to create a T-Shaped holder.
(I chose to design just the regular paint stick and cut it, gluing it to the “tongue depressor” style ones I already had because to create a T -style in the draftboard would have taken many more sheets, and I already had a bunch of the other part.)
Used TiteBond II Wood Glue and mini clamps to secure them. Once dried, attached the signs - printed on cardstock - using Elmer’s Multi-Purpose spray-on adhesive.
They are incredible stable, and the design seems to work really well.
Here are pics of the holder from the back,
the 4 different signs we’re going to be sharing with other parade participants:
The “Friends” themed one is my personal favorite.
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