I had a huge box of acrylic cutoffs that I had to send to the dumpster. That was sad.
I spent three hours cleaning my garage yesterday. I can’t believe all the stuff I was accumulating for the Glowforge and other projects. It was a purge. But I did find a case of 4x4" white tiles that had forgotten about.
Why does he have to peel the masking off to use it as kindling? It’s just paper, right? (Asking because I just got rid of mine in the gingerbread burnout, but I didn’t peel any of it… should I have?)
The solid wood scraps go into my honeybee smoker.
So in some some sense, our beeswax candles are made
with the helped of the glowforge. I have also used bigger scraps after
taking off the masking in my food smoker.
Plywood scraps are good kindling.
During the long wait for delivery, I hoarded cardboard, and think I used it probably 4 times.
Having been graced with a pre-release the company was generous with a store credit for materials, and I preferred testing on the actual material I would use, so I recycled probably 50 pounds of that stuff. If it comes to where I need cardboard to test, there is always an ample supply of “Amazon Kindling”.
The problem with corrugated is that it’s almost perfectly designed for starting fires. I’ve used it a few times, but BB is cheap and produces stuff that can be used indefinitely.
The only time I started a …slow burn (it never flared) with cardboard was when I accidentally selected my corriboard setting instead of my cardboard setting. It’s very reliable material, if you’re getting fires you need to do more settings testing.
Once I have my basic pieces settled I’ll do it in wood, but it’s hard to argue with free testing materials!
I use the scraps to cut out miniature dollhouse accessories and furniture. I have a friend who is a mixed media artist. He uses my scraps and turns into landscape art.
Im teaching my girlfriend to laser, and shes really getting into it and making a lot of small things. Im hoping she consumes a lot of these leftovers. I cant bring myself to toss them
I found that since most of the scrap was 90% holes a chopping down made them 10% gaps and 90% useable material and then more was ridiculous to save as I could not think of anything to make and that went to garbage.
