Last Week’s Highlights
Nuttin new under the sun.
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter everyone! I decided to make a quick Easter basket addition as a surprise for my husband.
(he is the usual blogger on here, so please forgive the lousy pictures).
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The bunny is made from Cherry proofgrade, and took about 8 minutes to cut and etch.
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I used hot glue, to give enough dimension to the piece so that a gift card would fit between the big feet and head.
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The final product! I’m really pleased with out it turned out, and the gift card fit perfe…
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Flight of the Phoenix
That movie was just playing on cable…excellent film. (Both versions.)
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Design Shop Puzzles
Recently made these 2 puzzles with the new beta unit I now have. [image]
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Yes, They Do Keep Their Coffee on Tap at GF HQ!
We have a dry office, but we still have a keg. [image]
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Coin of the Realm
The coin of my realm…it is the way of my people. PG maple ply, engraved both sides, gold embossing powder. Filling up unused spaces on my material. Sorry…should have given a reference…slightly larger than a quarter.
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Team Coasters
I showed a good friend and neighbor the Glowforge, and he asked if it could do his favorite teams logos on coasters.
While you wait.
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The spokes on the Bruin’s logo were yellow and engraved at a different power by default.
Edit; with a PNG file.
Nothing but awesome from this machine.
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Laser Tile
Last week I did some work on glass tiles from Home Depot. This weekend I want to show what a specialty laser tile looks like from the Glowforge.
LaserTile is a specially treated ceramic tile. It comes in different sizes and is available here http://lasertile.com/
The glaze reacts to laser light and turns a fuses black. It’s a lot like what happens with laser printers. It won’t scratch off and it doesn’t actually etch the surface like I did with the glass tiles.
So I pulled out a tile, dropped…
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Easter Edition
Time for a gratuitous Easter Bunny project [image]
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Cut Calibrations
So one of the first things I usually do on a laser is to run calibration projects on them. But the Glowforge is a bit different from what I’m used to with Proofgrade materials and auto-magic settings for cuts, engraves and scores. When I got the PRU I followed the directions in the user manual (figured I should since it would be embarrassing if I broke someone else’s machine or reported a “problem” only to get a “we mention that on page 7 of the user manual” response to a support request …
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Cutting Felt
I’m making a living hinge glasses case using Proofgrade maple plywood. It will be lined with felt to keep from scratching the eyeglasses.
Easy cutting the PG, but what settings do I use on felt? I’m using a self-adhesive craft felt from Michael’s. The stuff is 0.075" thick with a peel off liner on the back.
Into the 'forge, load up my cut line test file and start testing. My cut line test file is simply a set of 2 lines, one vertical and one horizontal. If I want to cut a piece off material I …
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A Spirited Debate
Finally had a chance to try out the Proofgrade Walnut hardwood with another ongoing project [image]
For comparison, here’s the same file in Maple…
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BTW, the original design was done in Affinity Design (including an imported bitmap) and exported as an SVG. Like Illustrator, AD also provides an export option that automagically converts text to curves — very handy!
Cheers!…
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To the Point
The Wallhouse
My younger daughter has a few sets of Sylvanian Family dolls that she loves, but they’re often sitting idle in a box buried in her closet. We first found a cute fairy dollhouse design on the web
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which we played around with using corrugated cardboard. I had to break it down into 10 or so print files to get it all done, but it came out pretty decently.
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This still took some space though whether it was on the floor or her desk. It was a bit too tall for her shelves at around …
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DIY Erector Set
So, making boxes and such is going to leave us with a lot of smallish pieces of PG and this stuff is relatively precious so I’d like to not be throwing a bunch of it away.
Not to fear, there are a lot of smallish things to make with it. But what to do when you’ve got rulers everywhere and all your luggage is tagged?
Well, creative toys of course as you can’t have too many. Boxes full are not too much. Good for five YO through EOL.
Here’s my first, I’m sure there will be many more. This one ne…
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Cut Corian Cookie Stamp
One of my friends recently brought over his switch and let me play a bit of the new Zelda. So to celebrate I decided to make some cookies. I figured I’d try and do something more than just regular cookies so I decided it was time to try using some 1/2" Corian material I had available to me. I picked out a nice triforce pattern and vectorized it into something I could work more easily with. I did a nice slow and deep engrave into it and then did a multi-pass cut which I was happy to see worke…
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Small Stuff
Scanning through all of the great “Made on a Glowforge” projects this morning. Felt a little lame for not posting any of my recent projects. So, leaned over as far away as the coffee table grabbed a little something and pressed print. Spent more time checking how to correctly spell Pistachio.
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Proofgrade Acrylic Slump Bowls
Continuing the discussion from Adventures in Acrylic :
@Jules was kind enough to let me post these bowls of her design and inspiration first. I got a request for these bowls from my wonderful art and environment chair. The request was accompanied by a Wagner heat gun. And she did a fantastic job decorating the church for the season. So I obliged.
This is very simply. Put the design in the GFUI. Size it as big or small as you want. Press print. It works flawlessly in both 1/8" and 1/4" acrylic. …
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I made a Thing on the Glowforge
More Acrylic Cookie Cutters
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I made two more cookie cutters. The hedgie and the Millenium Falcon. The cookies didn’t turn out though because I used a roll of dough from the store that puffed up and spread out. Need to mix up another batch of AB’s sugar cookies. They worked great.
The hedgie works perfectly. I do have to tweak the design a little. Messed up the slot size for the handle.
The Millenium Falcon worked great as an outline. The engraved detail showed up, but in this dough dissappea…
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Cosplay Gun
I know I’ve been quite for a bit but life has been quite busy. My daughter and I go to an anime convention every year and we both cosplay. This year I decided to cosplay “Stun Gun” Millie Thompson from Trigun. I tend to pick my cosplays by their props and this was no exception. Her multi-barrel non-lethal gun was a lot of fun to build and got a lot of remarks at the con itself. 90% of this build was made from plywood cut with the Glowforge.
First test fit of the main body pieces. I didn’t real…
Engraving Cabochons
Here are my initial attempts with the cabs. Clearly, my approach needs some fine tuning, but I learned a few things along the way and that much is good:
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Placement shows the order of attempt, from left to right, top to bottom. The first row was done with a wet towel, and I found design placement very challenging with that method. I also realized quickly that finer lines seem to work better, so I switched up the clip art.
In row 2 I started using the dish liquid, which worked very nice…
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Scoring Stained Glass
Continuing the discussion from Ideas for stained "glass" windows :
Okay, I did a little test today, in between working on a different project. Just to see if scoring stained glass for cutting is a possibility. I used some relatively smooth (i.e., easy to cut) yellow translucent glass and cut a flower petal design that was part of a design I previously cut for a mosaic brick.
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For settings I used Cut, 100% power, 60 speed, focus height 0.116"
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It definitely chowdered up the …
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Skin your iPhone with some Proofgrade Veneer
So…did you guys know that you can skin your iPhone case with the Proofgrade veneers?
(Yeah, me either, until a couple days ago.) @shell , I would love to see your cool coffee bean pattern adapted for this and included in the catalog, along with a few other “profession” related themes like engineering, or maybe some gears, or a musical theme…I think they’d be popular. I’m first in line for the coffee bean one.
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Summer’s Coming - Sunglasses Case
One of the things that lasers do really well is make very thin cuts in things. That makes something called a “living hinge” practical for all sorts of projects. Living hinges allow materials that don’t usually bend, curve or fold easily. One of the things that most amazes non-laser people is seeing things bending that ought not to. Putting those together is a marriage made in heaven and gives you a little extra “Wow!” to help explain why the wait for your Glowforge was worth it.
Since the winte…
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Bwente’s Tangram
Had a go at @bwente ’s Tangram design using the files uploaded by @marmak3261 , out of 1/8" birch ply I picked up at Woodcraft last week. Since it is unfinished, I used TransferRite Ultra 582U as masking. I’m pretty happy…
Here kitty, kitty…
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I really need to make a photo booth…
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Escher Fish Puzzle
@m_raynsford ’s Escher fish. I took the design and broke it apart to have individual fish to place in scraps. There are three fish designs to complete the tiling. Proofgrade walnut ply.
It really becomes a cool puzzle.
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More Escher Fish
Great minds and all that… I’ve been cutting Escher fish out of wood scraps an giving then a bit of color with Touch up pens
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Seems to be the laser equivalent of the Sharkz I print in every coil of filament I run through my 3D printer.
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A Pencil - Pfft
https://community.glowforge.com/t/a-pencil-pfft/7184?u=jules
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Game On!
https://community.glowforge.com/t/game-on/7186?u=jules
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Will it Forge? (Biblical Question)
https://community.glowforge.com/t/biblical-question-will-it-forge/7185?u=jules
drop the mic (Yes, that’s a grain of rice.)
https://community.glowforge.com/t/drop-the-mic-sunglasses/7189?u=jules
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PeepForge!
https://community.glowforge.com/t/with-cover-down-not-a-peep/7195?u=jules
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Glowforge Visit
https://community.glowforge.com/t/a-glowforge-visit/7196?u=jules
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Colonel Mustard, in the Library, with a Laser
https://community.glowforge.com/t/col-mustard-in-the-glowforge-with-a-pipe/7198?u=jules
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Edge Lit Sign
https://community.glowforge.com/t/my-first-edge-lit-sign/7199?u=jules
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Twenty Nothing
https://community.glowforge.com/t/twenty-nothing-anymore/7206?u=jules
Pocket Pentominoes
https://community.glowforge.com/t/pocket-pentominoes/7212?u=jules
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Pocket Pies/Branded Ravioli Pin
https://community.glowforge.com/t/how-to-make-a-ravioli-rolling-pin-i-like-to-make-stuff/7214?u=jules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrXaJyTT4To
Weck Jar Lids
https://community.glowforge.com/t/customizable-weck-jar-lids/7217?u=jules
Puzzles
https://community.glowforge.com/t/puzzles/7207/11?u=jules
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Bananaramma
https://community.glowforge.com/t/dispatches-from-the-front-pre-release-report-or-friday-night-frivolity/7224?u=jules
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Inventables Laser Safe Linoleum
https://community.glowforge.com/t/your-morning-joe/7225?u=jules
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Plywood Display Shelves
https://community.glowforge.com/t/mini-1-4-plywood-display-shelves/7226?u=jules
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Walnut Veneer Engraves
https://community.glowforge.com/t/walnut-veneer-engraves/7228?u=jules
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Geek Cred
https://community.glowforge.com/t/the-glowforge-gives-you-serious-geek-cred/7237?u=jules
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https://community.glowforge.com/t/laser-cut-house-plant/7110?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/parametric-sun-shaped-box-fusion-360/7116?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/pencil-pot-cup-made-of-pencils/7149?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/laser-cut-dovetails-youtube-video/2757/44?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/acrylic-color-fill-with-acrylic/7161?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/contraptions-with-facial-elements/7182?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/d-d-relief-map/7200?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/forfalska/7216?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/ninja-forge/7220?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/powerpoint-vector-graphics/7221?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/tab-box-generator/7222?u=jules
https://community.glowforge.com/t/lovely-inlay-boxes/7234?u=jules
