CNC Laser 3D Wooden Lake Map Art - Will It Sell? Episode 2
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2021
- CNC Laser 3D Wooden Lake Map Art - Will It Sell? is a new series where I make unique items AND break down material costs and labor costs. With this information, we answer the ultimate question, Will It Sell!?
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You can catch episode #1 of will it sell? Right here czcams.com/video/Jmum0Ur0iHk/video.html
Really enjoying this series, Andy! They are extremely informative and also fun to watch! - Joe
Glad you like them!
Always informative and inspirational! Thanks Andy!
You got it!
Excellent work!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow that is awesome! Great job on this one!
Thanks! I'm happy with it too!
This is a great series.
Glad you are enjoying it
awesome vid!
Now that's smart.
Thanks
Welcome
Cool video Andy. I'm hoping to visit Tom and Kathie up there sometime and catch some smallies or splake. Glad to see your channel is doing well. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, Isaac!
I really like the premise of this series... But I'm exactly in the same boat... What can I make that will sell?
One thing that may drive down the cost is the design time. If you can choose a location that you can sell 10 of these (for example), your design time becomes 1/10*2 hours. .2 * 25 design time roughly puts you at ~$100, which might mean it will sell better.
Again, awesome content. Love what you're doing.
I'm off to find a class. This is what I have been looking for!
Awesome!
Les cheneaux! How cool is that, I grew up in Cedarville. There's a boat building school there, try selling them some?
Cool!
"Shading" the layers would really add a nice dimension (pun intended). Lighter and lighter blue for the layers under water. Shades of brown then green for the layers above water.
Nice project! 👌
That would add some depth! Pun intended 😃
@@AndyBirdBuilds 👍🤣
I’m glad I’m not the only one with a filthy glowforge lol
Burning plywoods makes a mess for sure
Thank you. cut a acrilic light blue translucent to put it on top.
Great idea!
Hi. Nice map. What tint of stain did you use?
good walk through. at 165, did it sell?
Absolutely beautiful! Coming from a professional digital mapmaker.
I do believe you could have downloaded vector lines from a geographic database from the state or NOAA, might save you some time in the future!
Thanks! That means alot. If I could down load the vector lines... that would be a life saver! Or atleast a wrist saver 😃
@@AndyBirdBuilds What file format does your CNC read for vector lines? Or does it read an image?
Taylor, I was thinking the same thing when I watched this! Andy, you might be able to get contour lines as a shapefile and convert them for free to a dxf file for cutting👍🏼
@@taylordixon5871 I am trying to do a similar project to add the different depth layers, but I can't find any maps to use. Do you have any suggestions that could help me? I am located in Pennsylvania. Thanks.
@@kirbs1774 Any tips on where to go to get a water depth chart to make something similar? Thanks 😊
One thing I always wonder is "Does ANYBODY buy this style of thing?"
I have a cnc router, and access to a laser cutter, and I love all the work people put into these projects, but I never know what to make to sell.. none of this stuff is my aesthetic, so it's tough to figure out if there's even a market for it. Thanks for a great video and I hope your business is going well!
Nice video. I’ll try to find it, but there’s a video showing a way of essentially automating the contour tracing using level adjustments. I’ll post it if I find it
Not quite what I was looking for, but this video shows an online map site that produces an svg file that has the contours as individual clickable elements you can then tweak in illustrator etc
czcams.com/video/L7NalSuPVmA/video.html
Thanks, Neil. That would be fantastic!
Hey Andy, hello from Bosnia! Thanks for the video, I like both the idea and how you made it. Do you mind sharing what kind of laser do you use (type, max power) and which brand it is?
Hello! I have a Glowforge Laser. Its max power it 45 watts I believe
@@AndyBirdBuilds Thanks!
Great video. Unfortunately most of us don’t have a Glowforge lol.
Thanks! Yeah I realize it's a luxury
Try using "tea bag paper" - sprayed with water and squeegeed to the top surface of the ply (lay on dry then spray) . Spray the back surface with water to stop the ply warping.
Vinyl transfer paper leaves a horrible gooey mess that can be difficult to remove - especially when rastered - tea bag paper just lifts/blows off even when wet - along with the smoke staining.
Tea bag paper is exactly that - used to make tea bags :-) Model aircraft tissue (modelspan in the UK) will also do the same job - hard tissues don't work well (like Japanese tissue) - you want an open weave. Works on lots of materials - especially thin styrene sheet where it gives crisp cut edges.
Thanks for the tip!
Are you from Michigan?
Originally, yes.
It would be cool if you added epoxy resign to it. The cut a channel into the frame for led's. That would be a cool next show project.
I had a similar idea, but to do it with the CNC router.
You should do it!
Great video. Could you go one step further and finish it with epoxy resin without to many problems?
Glad you like it! You definitely could finish with epoxy
@@AndyBirdBuilds thank you so much. I’m looking at both laser and CNC (router) which would you recommend as a first tool and to do projects like this in the video?
Which software use for this design
Hi Andy, what type of laser cutter do you use?
Glowforge
@@AndyBirdBuilds thank you Andy. I really enjoy your videos and will be jumping into CNCs hopefully this year. Greetings from Romania
those are my bread and butter... make 3 of the same file, because once one person buys it, they'll show it to their neighbors, and you'll immediately have 2 more orders!
That's a great idea!
Hey! This is really cool and I was looking into doing something similar when I found this video. May be a dumb, newbie question - instead of making different layers from different sheets of stock, can you start with a thicker stock and just mill the layers out of it?
You could with a cnc router. The thing that will limit you is your Z and tool depth
Great project! Why the laser ? why not the CNC ?
Thanks! You could use a cnc router as well.
Where in the world are you getting 12 x 24 x 1/8" plywood for $2 a piece? Thanks for the instructions.
From a cabinet factory that is going to throw them away
Next time, inkscape offers a trace function. having it trace literally takes longer to open inkscape than it takes to trace the image.
1) Are you from Michigan?
2) Woah when did Andy get a Laser?
I am from Michigan originally and I've had it for about a year
there is raytrace software that just converts this to vectors - would save ya some time
That would be great! Where can I find the software?
You factor in $25.00 per hour for shop rate ??? how do you make any money after you pay the bills, tool consumables etc.
I used this figure as an example. Also, I'm not on the west coast, so understandably you'd think this anyways
Not being sarcastic, it's just not realistic to charge $25 shop rate and pay for everything you need to pay for and have some income left, west or east coast , unless maybe if you make 25 to 50 of these items at once
165 butts? Way too expensive...
$25 hr for your shop and labor is unrealistic. You should be up in the $60 to $75 hr. You have a ton of equip and overhead to pay for. Those maps are going for $275 to $400 for a reason.
There is a lot of time that goes into these. What are you including in your $60 to $75 and hour rate?
@@AndyBirdBuilds that what I am saying. Those maps are labor intensive. $165 is way too cheap. Even if you got orders for 20 of them. 4hrs per map. It would take you a week to do them. Don't be afraid to charge for custom work.
Dude. Why is your shop rate 25 per. Minimum $75 per hour man. You are living in 1985
I like the premise of this series, but it has a fatal flaw. Will it sell is far different from did it actually sell? We can speculate that it would sell at area craft shows for $165, but until you sell one for cash in hand...well, then this is just another project video. Your job as a content creator is done. But for your target audience, the woodworker who would have make and need to sell these, I'm not sure this video accomplishes its stated goal.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Promising nothing, I base my content on my previous experiences. This series IS speculating whether an item will sell or not, so I'm glad that is coming across well.