As much as I really like the covers that @ajvince makes (check out his Etsy store), I needed to go quick and low-cost for my initial dust cover since I have a lot of dust floating around from the Xcarve. So I made a dust cover for $0.94. Yes, less than a buck.
Materials:
Vinyl shower curtain liner (lightweight) from Walmart, approx 71" ($0.94)
Mark out the solid red cutlines from the template onto the shower with a sharpie (carefully, not to puncture the thin material)
Cut out - including the four 1"-long diagonal cuts at each corner
Duct tape the edges, fold each panel up about 1" to give it some weight and strength
Using a square table or coffee table as a guide, and following the dashed lines in the template, duct tape the corners together. There’s some overlap so it’s a little easier. Although I messed up one of the corners, shown prominently in the picture above.
Proudly place your cheap-looking yet surprisingly effective dust cover onto the expensive laser doohickey.
It ain’t pretty. It ain’t sturdy. But it’s functional and inexpensive and fast to create, and will (hopefully) last until I’m ready to either stitch one together myself, or (more likely) when I visit @ajvince’s Etsy store for a far nicer one. But this works for now.
I’m thinking a nice piece of leather. (But then I thought that would make it look more like an ottoman…somebody props feet up on my GF gonna be Arse Whoopin! Ha!)
That’s like BMW motorcycle owners. Stupidly expensive bike after which the owners will bitch and moan about every single thing they buy to go with it and most often go for the cheapest thing available. (Joke is that the cheapest part of a BMW is the rider )
Thanks for the template and the link. It is as if you read my mind. Will make one immediately (went “shopping” in the garage and found everything needed), to serve until I order one from the link.
Vinyl shower curtain? Not to be a Negative Nancy but vinyl is not safe to cut in the laser. I hope it was a small enough amount that you didn’t do any damage!
Yeah…yeah… cover thingy…ok, now let’s talk about the 3d terrain model on the back side of the table… Now THAT’S cool!
(Put this in the wrong spot originally) Grrrrr
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