The hanger having a curve in it so it was necessary to rotate it to get it flat on the shim stack for the date and location. Perfect.
Then I thought “I’ll just drop a little butterfly on there!”, but I wasn’t smart enough to rotate the hanger again so the outline score was off - as you can see.
The imperfection is a signature of my work.
Both the pre-release and this machine have never given me any trouble at all. Calibrates every time in 90 seconds, scan and render quickly, and placement is almost perfect. I love my glowforge.
Yeah, it’s closing in. Feels almost like when I got married. On that day my Mother, an alcoholic that hadn’t had a drink in 10 years looked at me and said “Boy, you need a drink…”.
I helped someone on Saturday with something for her friend’s wedding. “Pinterest that {insert bride’s name]” I believe was her quote. I have the feeling the bride made her friend browse through a few too many pinterest pins.
The quote that scared me was, “oh this isn’t as hard as I thought.” I’m thinking my making her do the design work wasn’t my best idea. It could come back to bite me.
I’m kinda new to this, can you walk me through how you did this? Like where did you get the hangers? Also how did you do it without the breadcrumb tray?
The hangers came from Home Depot.
Yes, you have to remove the crumb tray, because the hangers I have were right at 3\4" thick ( there is only room for 1/2" with the crumb tray in). The idea is to elevate your material to within 1/2" above where the crumb tray would be.
I just elevated the hanger to 1/8" above where the crumb tray would be and set the material thickness to 1.25
The two legs of the hanger slope so you will need to rotate the hanger so one of the legs is flat on your shim stack to engrave it, and then rotate the hanger opposite to do the other leg.
That means each hanger will be three operations, the top middle and each leg.
What you do is have all the engraving you want to do in one file, with the three operations in different colors, the glowforge recognizes different colors as different operations. so you can enable only one at a time and ignore the other two.
Gorgeous! Looking forward to doing my daughter’s wedding items. Un”fortun”ately I pushed aside the GFPRO about a week after it was delivered. So overwhelming & a bit complicated. I definitely should have done a ton more research before I invested thousands! Everyone makes it all look so easy plus the whole 30 minute setup time thing got me. Then I heard tonight from Lysa TerKeurst “expectations are premeditated resentment” There is certainly some truth to that! You’re work did motivate me, so I may take “Ms. Flo” out again sooner than later. Thanks. Gonna upload the name plates & drink stirrers that “Creative Amme” (out of Cali) made for me. Amazing job, nothing short of perfect! And the hangers I would love to make, now that I have Ms. Flo & what I had to do to the hangers Pre Ms. Flo. Have a Glowing Day! Oh and any help appreciated & never expected!
Thanks. My disappointment is mostly my inability to see that coming.
“That looks great! This is so easy, I’ll just spiff hers up a little and drop a butterfly on it…”
My enthusiasm blinded me.
Everyone makes it all look so easy plus the whole 30 minute setup time thing got me. Then I heard tonight from Lysa TerKeurst “expectations are premeditated resentment” 
There is certainly some truth to that! You’re work did motivate me, so I may take “Ms. Flo” out again sooner than later. Thanks. Gonna upload the name plates & drink stirrers that “Creative Amme” (out of Cali) made for me. Amazing job, nothing short of perfect! And the hangers I would love to make, now that I have Ms. Flo & what I had to do to the hangers Pre Ms. Flo. Have a Glowing Day! 
Oh and any help appreciated & never expected!
