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Working with Wax Seals | Can You Make them From Acrylic?
Wax Seals | How To & Testing on the Glowforge Project Overview: I while back I did a quick test to see if a wax seal could be made on the Glowforge. It didn’t turn out well, and I shelved the idea with the intent to try again at a later date. Well, that date […]
Laser Cut Dice Box for Dungeons and Dragons
Easy D&D Dice Box Cut on the Glowforge Project Overview: This project actually comes from another person’s design, so let me point you there first. I have a friend who was just starting up a D&D campaign with some friends and wanted to try my hand at this project for her birthday gift. This is […]
A Comprehensive Guide to Gluing Acrylic
The Acrylic Gluing Guide Project Overview: This seems to be one of the most commonly asked questions I see out there – “How do I glue acrylic to acrylic?” Well, in this post I’m going to try and show you a variety of different glues and give my opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of […]
Breast Cancer Awareness Pins for October
Laser Cut Breast Cancer Awareness Pins Project Overview: In this quick post, I’ll be covering two techniques – one of which I’ve shown before. First, we will be looking at pressure fitting two types of acrylic. Second, I tried “infilling” the acrylic engraving for contrast. So what is the project? We held a Breast Cancer […]
LED Edge Lit Laser Cut Name Tags
Edge Lit Lasercut Nametags Project Overview: This project is based off of a design by Trotec. Trotec Lasers is an awesome company with some great (but very expensive machines). They also sell some gorgeous acrylics. I’m really a fan of their Troglass which I’m planning to pick up sometime soon. By this point you’re likely […]
Liquid Snowglobe Shaker Ornaments
Snowglobe Style Shaker Laser Cut Ornaments Project Overview: If you read the previous post on creating shaker ornaments you’re probably got to wondering – could these be snowglobe shaker ornaments? Well, yes, yes they can. Minutes into designing the first shakers I knew I would need to work out how to make these liquid-filled shaker […]
Pumpkin Carving with the Glowforge Laser
Creating a Glowforge Jack-o-Lantern Project Overview: I really waited until the last second to do this post, and as of now it’s not really finished, however I wanted to share in case anyone wanted to expand on this idea and give it a go. So I’ve seen some other people engraving their pumpkins and I […]
Simple Shaker Christmas Ornaments
Creating Holiday Shaker Ornaments with the Glowforge Project Overview: Hopefully, this will be up in time for all your holiday crafting needs. Shaker ornaments are not new, there are thousands of variations and styles, but something I’ve surely seen in passing inspired me to do a very simple take on the idea. This is infinitely […]
Using Deepnest for the Glowforge (or Other Laser Cutter)
Using Deepnest.io Project Overview: This is a really simple post, made even simpler because if you don’t want to read you can watch a video! WATCH THE VIDEO Take some time to check out the settings. There are lots of options for how to adjust the way the software nests your designs. DOWNLOAD DEEPNEST This […]
UV Resin Revisited
Revisiting UV Resin Project Overview: So the first you might notice is that this blog has a new format! I spend most of my regular workday working on web stuff and being on the computer, so working up the energy to make a few much needed updates to my site was a challenge. Well, it’s […]