When elegance collides with The Walking Dead…
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You did an amazing job on this!
I love this thread!
I’ve had my laser up for a few months and today I decided to try something new (for me, at least). Backstory: My wife’s birthday is Wednesday, and she loves our dog more than anything on Earth. I wanted to make a card with the dog on it. I took a photo and created some woodcut/linocut vector art from it in Inkscape. I brought that into Lightburn and after a couple of tries got the speeds and feeds down to make an approximate 1.5mm deep burn into some scrap walnut that I had. Thankfully, the first burns were way too deep and the one that worked was just a little over an hour, (vs the first one which was going to take 5hrs!) 
After that, I got a block print kit at Michaels and rolled out some ink on the freshly lasered surface with the brayer and transferred to some card stock. After about a dozen or so tries, I got one I was happy with for her card.
Overall super fun project and if I do another block print cut on the laser I think I’ve got the process down so that it’ll only take an hour or two instead of most of a day. 
Cheers,
Ryan from Oregon
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Love this project. Very personal and meaningful. Where did you get that large slab of honeycomb?
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Thanks Charles! I found the honeycomb on Amazon. I couldn’t find one that fit the whole work area, but it’s all sufficiently big for my needs so far.
NEJE Large Honeycomb Laser Bed Working Table with 530x850mm (20.87 x33.46 Inch), Engraving and Cutting Tool Max 4/3 Max /3 Max V2 /3 Pro /3 Plus /3 Max/Master 2s Engraver CNC Machine https://a.co/d/7JWL1ls
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Impressive work! As one other said, you really do think out of the box above the mailbox has other opinions!
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Probably my problem, but I have yet to come across a good solution to holding all the wires, cables, water/air lines out of the cable track. So I went ahead and designed up a simple clamping bracket.
My plan is to test it out more and see if it needs beefed up. Hopefully this also helps with EMF next to the Z-axis motor as well.
Ignoring my shop mess, here it is in action.
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Nice! Seems to do a good job of holding all those tubes and cables out of the way so they don’t get snagged. BTW, you call THAT a shop mess? Ha! Hold my beer!
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Simple is best.
I found i need cable strain relief on the cable going to the spindle, so i printed one. I think many dont find it a problem. Probably my technique of routing the cable over a 1" dowel in the rafters.
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Did the same, printed a dowel, bent it while heating it up with heat gun
I attached it to Z plate behind the motor.
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I like the design. Much simpler than my contraption
I would love to have ago at this
I was not going to share this as it is a purchased file that I adapted for a commission. The client found it on line and asked if it could be made into a “sculpture” (not my description for this piece).
I had to get creative in Fusion 360 and Blender to make it work. Then there was hours of hand detail. You know, sanding, sanding and more sanding at the end.
Anyway, the 1F made quick work (6hrs on each side) which made the hand work much easier and is the only reason I’m sharing.
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Beautiful. What’s your method for the delicate sanding?
Simply using cloth backed paper torn in various width strips depending on need coverage. 60 to 600 grit then light 3000 grit after finish is fully cured.
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Made this for a friend son. He’s visiting Disney twice this week for the first time. He’s dressing up as captain Jack Sparrow for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. I thought he could start a Disney trading pin collection.
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Yes, other than the profile cut, the whole carve was done in one pass with the 1/16 TBN. The carve took about 5 or 6 hours if I’m not mistaken, which is cool with me because this method eliminates the tool marks left behind when the bit changes directions and after swapping out bits. 5 or 10 minutes of sanding compared to 1 or 2 hours is great also.
Also, sorry I replied to your question 14 months later, LOL!
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Going to do my first Market Saturday. My wife said “Hey make these corner ornaments!” So I made these….fun little projects. Did a couple of Halloween ones on my laser.
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I forgot to post this cutting board for a friend in Kentucky. He cooks all the pregame meals for the local high school football team. He want one side for ‘show’ and the other side for go (cutting surface). One condition on the show he wanted both wood and epoxy inlays. So Hard maple with Osage Orange and the epoxy work
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