Pro Crumb Tray

[rbtdanforth]

@davidandmaraya

The ridiculous part is now that it’s here we can’t seem to decide what to make first…

A good Idea is to start learning what to expect and making tools to make other things.
You will need some honeycomb bed pins

Honeycomb bed holdown pins

the best laser results are achieved with flat (non warping materials) in order to maintain consistent focus. Also, when cutting light materials like paper, the exhaust turbulence can kick up the material and ruin your job or at worst… catch fire. (speaking of which, I hope you all keep a small fire extinguisher in easy reach, near your machine - safety FIRST) I hope you find these useful. I used to 3d print them for my other laser cutter but occasionally , they would see the wrath of the laser …

I designed these and made many as having spare rulers is always nice…

Two sticks to rule the world

Well, the world inside a Glowforge anyway! Having some scrap plywood I thought to make a 20-inch ruler that would define the space available and set accurate measuring points, I set Inkscape with a 1/10-inch grid and a snap-to-grid so they were dead on accurate and as I was doing it realized that I could not engrave or even cut the full length, so I measured a horizontal line as close as I could get to the max cut area, and cut the rulers down to that. I could not decide which side to put the i…

but there are many links here also…

Glowforge Ruler for Crumb Tray - Perfect placement and Passthrough Alignment

I had a small project I needed to work on for a family member and I ended up needing to use the pass through. My camera alignment, like many others is never in the right place so I thought I would go ahead and create a ruler to help with the placement of the design for cutting as well and to use for manual indexing for the pass through. The rulers are inspired by @Jules Pro Only - Passthrough Alignment Jig Templates and @johnse Passthrough Alignment Tutorial with Manual Indexing. Thanks Jules…

This is also handy to know about…
https://www.festi.info/boxes.py/index.html

I’m sure others will have suggestions as well

Oh and this is a pain to set up the first time but will give a good standard candle to how any non proofgrade wood will cut and engrave without using too much of that wood. I keep a box of these as reference for every new type of wood I use.

Engrave and Cut 1/4" Mahogany tips?

This is the test I run on every new wood species and often on several to test what I want to actually use. but this first test runs the engraves at twice the number noted and then comes back and makes the cuts at the numbers noted and then cuts off the piece at two passes at 125 all full power. [evans%20tests] Watching closely while it is done allows me to put a wet cloth on after it cuts in the case where it starts to make charcoal,this is the Zebrawood piece after sanding it as the cut is de…