winter day today pouring outside snowing in the mountains and this is a project
we're gonna do today this is laser cut on my universal laser engraver 1/4 inch
melamine I cut out both the backing board and the front ring there and then
melt crayons to fill a space just a super fun project really easy to do I'm
actually gonna do this at a birthday party tomorrow so I'm pre cutting them
they're gonna let the students go ahead and melt the crayons however they want
so this is the project we're doing today stay tuned if you like it make sure you
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project alright
hey everyone Jonathan here I'm in CorelDraw 2018 I was going to go through
that like six inch diameter medallion that gets filled in with crayons melted
crayons so I always start with a new document I make that document the size
of my laser cutter 24 wide by 12 high very important that it's RGB so there it
is there I found some artwork I create my own artwork yeah I'm just gonna
actually import if you saw artwork and give it a try so there it is there this
is pixelated there's a raster and I wanted a vector I go trace outline trace
logo and that's going to trace it I want to make sure I delete the original image
and remove the background so now it's been vectorized and then what I'm going
to do there is I'm going to outline the whole thing and hairline red and it
can't be close to red like this it actually has to be 255 0 0 so there's my
outline and here line red and then my fill this is my fill I want no fill so
there it is so there's my imagery that would all get cut through I'm going to
go back to the object manager you open up the group of it and delete some of
these pieces so I'm just kind of cleaning it up
just kind of I just really wanted as simple as possible remembering these are
gonna be my cut throughs so now I have a down to the imagery I want I'm
actually gonna create a circle and create that circle right here 6x6 is
kind of my goal but I want to be able to fit them on a 24 by 12 sheet so you
can make them just under that so 5.75 by 5.75 enter again this is going to be a
cut out so I go to object properties here it is going to be a hairline in red
and again it's got to be exactly 255 0 0
and then I'm actually gonna go up here to my select tool and then I'm going to
drag this and then what I'm going to do is actually going to make a copy of it
so I drag it with my left mouse key down right click to make a copy of it let me
select this one they're going to take this one and this is going to be my
outline on it that's actually a pretty good fit like that
then I'm going to drag this one over here and put the two together this is
going to be my backing board for that imagery I'm going to take this one
that's the cutout and glue it on top of here so I'm going to save my file and
I'm gonna save it on a flash drive and take it out to a laser and then let's
see how that goes all right here's my image in CorelDraw
I go up here in a file, Print the LS 3.6 I'd hit print and that just
exports it to the driver and then here it is the driver go down to settings
natural hardwood this is relocate view here this is see
where the laser is and then this is replicate the duplicate and I'm going to
duplicate it four times
hit play look like
Universal getting cut out right there there's the first one head out a little
bit of burn marking
cut out four of them right there
the bottom circle you know who was a copy and paste so they're identical
that thing was sitting right on top and then when I take them out it's going to
glue them together not using that much glue
here they are out of the laser pretty good a little bit of blood burning I'm
just gonna glue this to this and clamp it and let it dry and this is a pocket
to be a night sky or a day sky whatever you choose with your crayons and then
this could be water again it kind of any color you choose with the water so I'm
just using Titebond wood glue here it's gonna put a little bit on there
fingers
I don't really want it thick and squeezing out and I do want to kind of
consistent all the way around
figured later glue there may be a little too much line this up
then I could either put like a board over it and put a lot of weight on that
which is a good way to clamp it or I could just use some squeeze clamps there
it is if you squeeze clamp right a few more than that nice thing about squeeze
clamps is you could kind of move it around still and get it lined up
perfectly on the outside edges here and then kind of add more to it
I'm actually gonna tape it off first and then cut it out with an exacto knife for
the overflow of candle wax won't stain the white I've done them in wood before
and then I just standard the wood off that worked well the other way to do
this tape with the laser cutter is actually just put the tape over before
you cut it out so I'm just gonna cut this excess tape off
so here's our Harbor Freight electric heat gun this thing works great really
conscientious about fire nothing flammable near where I'm working I have
the two pieces glued together cleaned out and then taped and cut off with the
exacto knife I'm going to use some crayons and drop the blue ones in the
sky up here I need a little more blue than that the green one for the water
maybe mix the sky up a little more blue
they said you set up now
how's that look want to let it dry like that?
pretty well melted it I kinda like the color patterns kind of crazy little
swirly little tide is will turn the heat gun off and let it dry let it cool see
how it comes out not sure why this is drying I think I'll go ahead and make a
base for these things
it's only 3/8 of an inch wide and I have two quarter inch sheets so that's a half
inch so you know multiple passes I haven't brought up about halfway through
the board and then I have about a 12 degree bevel on it
come over an eighth of an inch do one more pass see how that works
this just sitting there like that and that way we could have a stand so you
could see anything up let's tape off very exciting
looking good
whole night sky crazy Green River let's just drop it in the stand and see how it
looks
there's our base there's our project oh you gotta love that