I’ve been working on a few ornaments, and wondered if a “show off” thread would be useful/inspiring for a consolidated place of awesome? These are a few designs I and some VIPTM (very important people to me) have been collaborating on together. Please add your own amazing and fantastical works
Slightly larger than a silver dollar. Inspired by @mpipes, I flooded the clear acrlic engrave with acrylic solvent. That has a polishing effect that plays nicely with the light.
This is the ornament I made my friend for his son’s first Christmas. I made a bunch of coasters as gifts and had a nice thin, light weight one and thought it would make a great ornament.
A word of advice about engraving photos on slate…Convert your images to a half tone images in photoshop first. Don’t trust the glowforge interface to convert it into enough dots on its own. The slate doesn’t do a great job with gradients so you have to go a little overboard with the half tone. And make sure you have a nice high contrast image. I recommend doing small tests on one piece of slate so you don’t waist a whole coaster trying to get it right.
Also, I did an order of 34 cartoon-rodent ornaments and had to make the box worthy of them. I’ve seen at least on other Glowforger that made a similar deviation on the original metal ornament, available at certain theme parks with sparkly and shine.