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Category Archives: Laser
Pawbital – Orbital style glasses for cats
I friend of mine wanted to dress up her cats for Halloween. She asked me to make some glasses with lights in them like on the Orbital 20 album cover. I started by making a design for the actual glasses. They are made from 1/4″ MDF and cut with a laser cutter. We had to [...]
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Lots of new dog themed items added to the Etsy store
My sister shows her Belgian Tervuren “Mighty Supernova of Earlymoon” (AKA Nova). She has been asking for some dog stuff and I have delivered it to my Etsy store. I can now do keyrings, coasters and treat bags with any breed of dog. I only have artwork on hand for two breeds right now, but [...]
3 more leather flasks
I made 3 more flasks. The leather, once cured in beeswax, is quite hard. Like a hard, slightly flexible plastic. If you rap a knuckle on them it makes a very solid thock. Between laser time, materials and labor I would have to sell these for at least $60 to justify making them. I will [...]
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Leather Flask with Laser Etched designs
I have been experimenting with laser cutting and etching leather. I came across this Instuctable and wanted to try something similar. I had laser etched a map I wasn’t 100% happy with on some leather. So I built a pattern in Inkscape and cut the leather. Using the “pattern on path” plugin I was able [...]
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Desktop Catapult now on tindie, Instructables and Thingiverse
I’ve been working on a laser cut kit for a small trebuchet. I have it working how I wanted and I have posted the files to my favorite sites for that sort of thing. Featured Instructable Laser cutter files on Thingiverse Kit for sale on tindie There is also a video of it in action. [...]
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Laser Cut Yuletide Earrings
I know a couple of ladies who might like a pair of Christmas earrings. It took me about an hour to do the artwork in Inkscape. Then I cut them, painted with acrylic paint and sealed with clear coat spray. You can find the files on Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:35711
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Lace made from leather
I’ve got some scraps of suede and a 40 watt laser. What could possibly go wrong? 3mm suede is possible to cut in the laser. There are two problems though. 1. It smell like barbequed dog hair. 2. It curls, scorches, shrinks and catches on fire as you cut. When I was a kid in [...]
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New laser cut box designs
I’ve been working on some laser cut box designs for holding cards. I’ve been using the boxmaker over here. It works OK with Inkscape. Here are some tips for working with the PDFs the boxmaker exports. Save the PDF to your hard drive. Import the PDF from the file menu. The import will look like [...]
A gearbug #1 design I am finally happy with.
I’ve uploaded gearbug #1 to http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:31426. It was the first gearbug design I cut on the laser. It morphed into some simpler designs that I considered “finished” before I got the original working exactly how I wanted. The artwork is Pacific Northwest themed. Don’t worry, the plant is a rhododendron. The text is only visible [...]
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Inkscape Measure All Paths Extension
In order to get a rough idea how long something will take on a CNC or laser cutter I wanted to be able to measure all the vector lines and arcs in a file. I knew it was going to be possible to do in Inkscape. I looked around for an extension that that would [...]
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