"Well, that didn't work," ended my first foray into laser etching glass. I tried to create a design similar to the mesmerizing microscopic pattern found on the back of the Nexus 4 smartphone, this time on the glass back of a spare iPhone 4 that my nephew graciously donated for the cause. The resulting pattern was … Continue reading 19: Fire Flower Vase
These small plastic dialog boxes—featuring quotes from classic games like Final Fantasy VI and Earthbound—are some of the products I sell on Etsy, available as magnets or pins. They're tiny, and while they stack nicely it gets a little unruly when I have stacks of dialog boxes just sitting around my workbench. So, this week, … Continue reading 16: Etched Storage Boxes
I have a fairly healthy collection of NES games; you can kind of see them in this listing for one of my abecediaries on Etsy. If you haven't figured by some of my previous projects, I'm a big fan. Because of this, deciding to use some of my spare NES cartridges as canvases for laser … Continue reading 12: NES Etching
A few weeks ago, I was planning to visit an artist friend of mine and wanted to bring something laser-made to show off. I settled on some very small, very fine etched-wood versions of some of his recent grayscale artings. Making the art look good on the surface was tricky, and while I had a … Continue reading 10: Tiny Things
