I’m so happy that the audio circuit on this laptop no longer works.
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At least it was not a goatse link…
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Anyone who pays attention here knows I love a good visual, so here ya go.
This is your laser after cutting PVC…
This is your laser after cutting PVC veneer…
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What about lasering drugs? Or eggs?
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I’m now wondering if I could cut egg-shell with the GF ?
I know the technique for ‘blowing’ eggs, but I’ve never tried it, so I think that goes on the ‘to do’ list !
John 
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Chris, you either have a strange word-association sense of humour, or 'blowing eggs means something else in USA !
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Yes you can!
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Thanks Jules. I missed that one.
meets Faberge ? That might work.
John
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I dunno, I tried for some thin fancy flourish designs and kept breaking them…they’re just so thin after you cut and pick parts away that they don’t hold up. (You can cut a blocky shape out of them like a star or an oval, and they are pretty stable, but the usage is limited, so I never went back to the medium.)
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Coat the inside with something before cutting - epoxy ? Acrylic ?
I have a pint of uv acrylic
John
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Maybe. It turns out to be more work than carving with a Dremel though, it might be best to leave the eggshells to something like a very small CNC.
(Fully expecting the gods of laser to strike me down now. Must be ready to duck.) 
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Maybe coat the inside with PVC or PVC veneer? 
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Now there’s a thought, mini slush moulding . . . 
My mother found folks who had a lot of out of date eggs and my father made up an arrangement that used flowing water from a hose to create enough vacuum to such out the (usually quite rotten) eggs and they then ran water in them to clean them out and using a big syringe injected gesso that was drained and then a bit of tissue and more gesso on the outside ( sometimes with a bit of string if it was going to be hung like on a tree) and that done the eggs were ready to have whatever decoration done to them.
They would glue on whatever bric-a-brac and would add a rub on color that highlighted the height differences or just paint stuff like cactus, roadrunners, or quail on them ( in Arizona you can sell anything with cactus, roadrunners, or quail on them) and they had a few places that would sell all that they could make.
With a Glowforge, cutting out shapes to glue on might work better than just cutting the eggs.
And if you know anyone raising emu so much the better.
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Or maybe eggs on drugs!?
I take full responsibility for this derailment, but I think @chris1 can take a smidgen of the blame for mentioning the word ‘eggs’ in #11.
@rbtdanforth Thanks for that recollection. My late wife, as a child, hand painted decorations on the eggs shells of the Easter breakfast eggs served to the family.
This is my exit line !
John
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The OP was a dead horse after the first three responses. That made the d-egg- version both a welcome relief and far more interesting.
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