I only wish I had time right now… (still tutorialing in the background.)
I’ll get back to designing and playing a bit soon I hope.
I only wish I had time right now… (still tutorialing in the background.)
I’ll get back to designing and playing a bit soon I hope.
What sorcery is this!
wait…what…how?
My fellow Glowforgers here amaze me daily. This is today’s, maybe this week’s.
You do realize that with great power comes great responsibility right?
We’ll expect a full tutorial on this once you have it fully figured out.
See those burned edges? HC SVNT DRACONES!!
(i.e. HERE BE DRAGONS!!)
Trogdor!!!
Dimensions ?
Haha–knew it wouldn’t be long before there was another. Good way to tilt a bottle of fingernail polish!
So, @nunzioc got it right, I used a jig that I cut on the Glowforge. Here it is:
And of course you are limited by how long your piece can be (about 2.6" or so, max), but you can make it pretty wide–8" or so… I’m waiting to get another part I need before I will know the exact dimensions, then I’ll cut it out of walnut.
Some great tutorial potential there…
Very cool, i’ve been hoping to see someone do this instead of the puzzle piece corners you traditionally see with lasers.
Wow! This is something I assumed wouldn’t be practical at any dimension.
This is something I’d totally use. I friggin’ hate finger joint box connections so I was looking for another way to do joinery. A miter like this would be perfect!
Would it be possible/sensible to produce a joint with a lapped mitre joint, with a series of cuts/engraves, at different depths ?
This assumes you have no other wood working tools/facilities, of course.
Brilliant!
This is brilliant proof of concept. Now what we want is some of the miter-based joints you can’t easily make with regular tools, like the splined miters and blind finger-joint miters.
Beautiful work on that link.
Splined mitres are my favourite for investigation.
Can’t do it with very big pieces I guess due to vertical clearance since you’re using a jig.
There look like some interesting jig plans for a few different mitre angles here http://blog.justaddsharks.co.uk/laser-cut-mitre-joints/ - going to try make a 45 degree one tomorrow
@m_raynsford is discovered by the forums yet again
Since using acrylic, you could do the angle cuts on larger pieces by assembling multiple parts back together with acrylic cement. Would not lose very much structural stability (once you get good at gluing them back together at least)