Just got my glowforge haveing fun makeing earring. Jw what the best wood is to use ?
Every type of wood will have positives and negatives. Tear drops tend to be tiny at the top which makes hardwoods more likely to break there - while plywoods will have the grain going both ways so less likely to break. If you’re engraving into them then hardwoods are wood all the way through - while plywoods have draftboard in the center.
There are so many variables depending on your specific design and what you’re planning on doing with it!
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evansd2
February 27, 2020, 6:52pm
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Hi y’all! There’s so much info to sort through in the forums and I’m very new to the community, so I apologize if this is a redundant topic.
When I purchased my GF, it came with several sample materials. I’ve been getting on a wood earring kick, and really like how the walnut hardwood looks for dangling earrings. However, GF is sold out of the walnut and a couple other hardwoods that I was interesting in buying (not sure how long that will be?). That being said, and being so new, I’m hesitant t…
https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=wood%20earrings
I made these with the proof grade walnut hardwood.
Instead of getting sleep after a hard week at work I was messing around in Inkscape trying to understand how to design stuff.
Late night and 4ish hours later (which is part of the reason I said no to the design a day challenge)…
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And just because I found one of my really old creations from years ago in the box in the background… I give you… (warning: not made on a GF)
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