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
I'm not a huge fan of New Year's Resolutions - sometimes I can be too much of a perfectionist to have it work in my favor. Instead, I come up with a one word affirmation for the new year ahead. I know it sounds a little hippy dippy, but a one word affirmation is designed … Continue reading 104: One Word Affirmation
This week I had a challenge that I've been dreading for a while now: recreating a greyscale image on a wood surface. While engraving a black and white design results in impressive, high-contrast finished pieces, any images with a wide variety of values can end up looking muddy if you don't properly determine how the … Continue reading 103: Halftoning Wood
As part of a custom order of Ingress badges, I recently had a chance to revisit kiss cutting. I'd played with the process a few times before but not on 52lasers projects. Kiss Cutting is one of the most popular methods for creating pressure-sensitive labels. During the kiss-cutting process, the perimeter of each label is … Continue reading 85: Sticker Sheets
