Prickly Pear Cactus Leather Cuff

[PhxFrge]

I’ve been having a lot of fun designing and wearing lasercut leather cuffs.

I backed this one with a rectangle of leather I cut with scissors. If you make one, I’d love to see pictures! (Also, this is my first time sharing an SVG, hope I did it correctly. It’s there, it’s just all white.)

![nopales for glowforge|386x499]

[evermorian]

Nice work!

I am not seeing the SVG. I think something went amiss there.

Is this prickly pear leather you made? Or from Desserto? Or something else?

[rbtdanforth]

@evermorian

Or from Desserto?

Cactus does make great dessert.

[evermorian]

@rbtdanforth

Cactus does make great dessert.

Heh. Nopales azucarada!

I did make prickly pear sorbetto once:

… but, this is the Desserto I meant:

https://desserto.com.mx/catalogue

[dklgood]

Thanks very much. Your cuff photgraphs well on a drum.

It was a leap of faith to download the file as it is all white. Once I opened it in Inkscape I changed the outline to black and there it was!

[PhxFrge]

Thanks! It’s regular leather, the prickly pear is the design. However, now you have me thinking I need to do some cactus leather experiments…

Any tips for getting the SVG to show up? When the page loads,the all-white design is briefly visible while the background is gray. It’s still there, but the white background of the page makes it hard to tell.

[PhxFrge]

Yum!

[evermorian]

Ah! I see. I was able to context-click on the white space and, catch the file. Typically, people set their stroke color to something other than white. Here it is with the stroke set to black:

I guess I had the cactus leather on the brain and, didn’t think that you were just talking about the design.

Desserto did confirm that their stuff is laser-friendly. I was considering ordering a swatch book from them to play with it a little. A couple other people have mentioned it. Let us know if you try it.

[deirdrebeth]

That’s lovely! and yeah, I thought it was cactus leather too Guess we’re all on a wavelength today!

For future ease of designing, if you make your art board 12" x 20" then the will never accidently resize your design - and wherever you place your art on the art board is where it will show up on the bed of your The lower right corner is the best for saving material!

[Thumper369]

Fun. Thanks for sharing

[PhxFrge]

Thanks for the sizing tip!

[bill.m.davis]

Very nice! Thanks for the share!

Here is a version I cleaned up and changed the cut order:
(version with engrave)

(version with cut-out)

Edit: After looking at your pictures again, I realized the inner pattern is supposed to be engraved, so I updated that on the cleaned up version also.

Edit: Added cut-out and engrave.

[brokendrum]

@bill.m.davis

inner pattern is supposed to be engraved

Was a cut, with a second layer behind.
Curious now what it looks like engraved, or without a back piece.

[bill.m.davis]

@brokendrum

Was a cut, with a second layer behind.

Okay. I added both versions to my original “reply”.