Thank you 
Heās going to look good on almost anything, but my mindās eye sees leather for some reason.
The maple proofgrade looked really good, but flat black spray paint in the engrave gives a nice contrast.
This is where material masking shows itās power, the laser cuts it perfectly. Paint and peel. Done.
Sure, be reasonable about it all!
Na, donāt let the guilt get you, the rest of us will catch up soon enough! 
OMGā¦ I wouldnāt be able to think/eat/sleep/do anything. I give you 5,000,000 pts for the most amazing will power!
It was Terrible 
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There, thereā¦ Glowforge will take away all of your troubles now.
Congratulations!
Sorry for the delay in responding to this post, itās been just crazy for me the past week between work, purchasing a new workshop and a new to me used 1966 F250 in Denver (restoration project).
I was excited to see your first post with the GF and your creations. I was expecting to see unique and wonderful things from you and you did not disappoint.
Vanished instantly.
Been a long time since I felt like a child again on Christmas morning!
Thank you!
Have fun with the restoration
I knew you were in for a prerelease. You are an artist of many mediums and you have the heart of an engineer. Congratulations. Your first prints are stunners
Thank you! 
I may have the heart of an engineer, but itās too bad I donāt have the education that goes along with it! (I do have the scars that attest to that. School of hard knocks. 
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The machine did all the work, Iām just fumbling my way around. Good that the system is intuitive! 
Greatly eases my introduction into a tech new to me!
I have to agree on both counts! 
Also really good that there are so many here that stand ready to help! The value of that canāt be overstated.
Youād be an honor student in my classes, as far as Iām concerned!
Thank you, thatās very kind.
I dropped out of school in the 10th grade because joining the Navy, seeing the world and working on jets sounded much more appealing than going back to school. I wasnāt smart enough to realize you never get out of school, itās just the classroom that changes.
Dad died when I was one, and my Mother - God knows she tried, but that woman had her hands full with me. Never bothered me that I chose that path until I toured the Colorado School of Mines with my Son, then it hit me. Thatās where I belonged all those years ago. I told him "If you can get into this school, and get through it, you will have a downhill swing on a career. He showed Dad how itās done.
Actually @dan taught me a new word here - autodidact. Man, that sounds a lot better than high school drop out!
What subject(s) do you teach Scott?
Structural and mechanical engineering topics mainly. Also mechatronics at an entry level (called a ādiscovery courseā where I learn at the same time as my students!). Now that Iām retired, I only teach senior capstone design courses, where industry sponsors pose problems important to them, and teams of 3-4 seniors solve the problems while I look over their shoulders as a faculty advisor.
What a great approach to teaching, a challenge. āSee if you can find a solution.ā Good prep for life, and for the teacher not the same old cut and dried curriculum. I bet you enjoyed that, watching those wheels turn. 
Yes, they get such a tremendous sense of accomplishment and self confidence as engineers. Itās a very rewarding course to teach, although āteachingā is really more like simply nudging them one way or another if I think they are straying from a productive path.
School of Mines is a great school. I just visited last summer while vacationing in Golden. Congratulations to your son on his success there!
OK Morgan, I have fumbled around enough now to have a fundamental grasp of the machine and the UI. 
If you are willing to make the drive just to push that button, I have a couple of pieces of 20x12 1/8" Proofgrade maple with your name on them!
If itās not too much trouble, please do bring the Cintique so I can see how you use it.
Bring a few files you would like to print in that maple, and if the Leather Woman has an idea she would like to try, we can learn that together!
I recommend a scrap too so we can dial that material in.
It will scan directly from a tablet! Holy rusted metal Batman!