It wasn't all that long ago that the craft beer explosion happened, but it's hard to think back to when beer—at least in my life—was a choice between Budweiser and Miller products. While I'm sure there's debate aplenty about the community that formed around craft beer, you can't dismiss all of the awesome artwork that community … Continue reading 111: Bottlecap Sign
I've been playing a lot lately with a new toy I picked up from Inventables: a powered LED strip for edge lighting acrylic. It's made in particular to work in tandem with specially made acrylics that transmit light efficiently, but I've found it works really well with simpler transparent and fluorescent acrylics. My first test … Continue reading 109: Edge-Lit Acrylic
A few months ago, my friend Arty got in touch with me and said he had "some thick acrylic" left over from a recent storefront revamp at a mobile phone store. Not really knowing what I was getting into, I said "hey any scrap material that I can laser is good with me!" Much more … Continue reading 107: Thick Acrylic
Over the past few weeks, I've spent half a day here, half an hour there, slowly going through all of the inventory I've accumulated since starting my collection of laserable bits back in 2011. One of the gems I pulled out of the rough was a set of about a dozen small pieces of finished … Continue reading 105: Tint and Shade Engraving
