How to Make Layered Art Décor - Glowforge
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- I made a 4 layer art piece made out of wood, inspired by the hexagon. Thank you CGP Grey for sharing with us all how awesome the hexagon is! The layers were cut using my Glowforge laser cutter, dyed with Keda colors, and then glued up for the final result. The art fits in a perfect space above my laser cutter filling out the space I work in everyday. The art piece is much larger than the cutting area so I had to design some clever overlapping of the layers to not only hide the seams but also to ensure its strength once everything was glued together.
If you are interested in making one yourself, I have made the digital files available for purchase here: www.engineeredrelics.com/stor...
If you are interested in purchasing a Glowforge consider doing so using this link as it will save you $500 off a Pro, $250 off a Plus, or $125 off a Basic and help support my work as well: glowforge.us/r/DOXUSKMY
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Products used in video:
► .125” Birch Plywood - amzn.to/2SOt2b3
► Glue squeeze bottle & needle - amzn.to/33ZT6lO
► Gorilla Wood Glue - amzn.to/3f2ujE6
► Keda Liquid Dye Kit - amzn.to/2Sb8l91
► Bessey Hand Clamps - amzn.to/3v6pS0z
► Flush Cut (Pull) Saw - amzn.to/3f6f25e
► Tripod, Bonfoto 671A - amzn.to/3tLB4y3
► Smartphone mount - amzn.to/3hsGbke
► Camera/microphone - iphone 12 Pro
Music from CZcams Audio Library:
► Timeless - SlenderBeats
► Easy Shake - Geographer
► Buckeye Bonzai - Vans in Japan
Go make cool stuff! - Jak na to + styl
this is stunning!! please keep making more!!
Thank you Sheri! I will :)
Turned out great- the wood dye process is a super helpful tip!
Thanks! Glad you were able to take something from the video :)
This is amaaaazing
Really beautiful work!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful
Thanks so much Karen!
That turned out really nice
Thank you for the appreciation!
Beautiful and so creative may have to do this with mine 💖
Go for it! Let me know how it goes for you and thank you for the kind words.
Working with limitations, I LOVE IT! Lookin great my man!!
Thank you Corbin! I appreciate the love
Cool 😎 👍
Thanks Wolfram!
Nice art thanks for sharing I'll try this
Thank you! Let me know how it goes Avinash
Suggestion for thickness of each layer...?
This is amazing,thank you so much for sharing, if you don’t mind, could you please tell me where did you get this bgm?
Do you provide services to convert images into layered wood art vectors?
What wood are you using and the thickness ?
Keep making videos bro
can i ask what is your favourite software (easy to use an create) new designs, maybe even a little tutorial if its possible, stuff you make is awesome. but rather make and sell something of my own than rip designs from someone else, as you propably understand. keep up the great work. best regards from eindhoven ( the netherlands)
Thank you so much for the kind words!! And I do understand, for me, more than half of the fun is the design process and the rest comes from building and having the art afterwards. For 3D designs I use SolidWorks and for 2D designs I use Inkscape, and for many projects I’ll use both to add etching details in Inkscape onto parts I designed in SolidWorks. Inkscape is easy to learn, it’s free, and there are a lot of tutorials both built in and online - highly recommended. SolidWorks is something I use in my day job as a mechanical engineer and it’s become an extension of my own arm essentially haha, but it does cost money. Fusion360 is a very powerful and free alternative that could have made all of the designs you see in my channel. Best of luck on your journey of creating art! Stay in touch and let me know what you make :)
As you are in an apartment , how do you filter the air from your laser
Great question! I made myself an insert to go in the window that is right behind the laser cutter and I have a 6” AC Infinity fan that pulls the air through the glowforge and out of the window. I’ve disabled the internal fan because it is so loud. The external fan is much quieter and effective. I don’t get any escaping fumes with my setup which has been great!
I know you wouldn't give me the dxf file of that amazing Design you did!! 🌚😄
I’m glad you like it! I am actually in the process of making the digital files of it and my other designs available for purchase over the course of today and tomorrow. So they will be available soon! Probably $5 for all the files and instructions.
@@engineeredrelics would really appreciate it and waiting for it!! Thanks a lot again!! 🙏
The digital files for this design are now live! You can find them at my website here, enjoy! www.engineeredrelics.com/store/p/4-layer-hexagon-wall-art
Nice design! Really like the intricacy that emerges from the simple units, when layered. Also like the steps you took to break up the over-regularity of your grid. Three things:
What is the name of the command (or what is the basic process) for applying a gradient to the stroke width in Inkscape? I never realized that was possible.
At some point, I'd also like to see a bit more detail on how you thought through the joints for the two parts of each layer. My tendency would be to offset them more, so the weak spots are less stacked in the same band across the piece.
I'd also like to see how your venting system is set up. Did you add fans? Did you incorporate filters? I'm also in an apartment, and will soon have my laser cutter. I need some serious venting and filtration, here, because of prevailing breezes and arrangement of neighbors' windows.
Thanks again for this video. Please keep 'em coming!
Thank you so much for the compliments and questions!
1. To my knowledge there isn't a command for the gradient to stroke width, unfortunately. Although I'm not an inkscape master yet either. The way I did it was to rotate the entire piece so that I could drag a box around each row and manually raise/lower the stroke width. It didn't take too long for the amount of rows that the design had.
2. Totally, I wished that I could have spaced them out further away from the center as well. I was unfortunately limited by the cutting size of my laser cutter and if the split line moved closer to one side then the other piece would either get too large or I'd need to split the layer into 3 pieces - and I wanted to avoid as many splits as possible. In the end the splits are closer than I'd like but there is still plenty of overlap to require wood to split plus have a glue failure in order to have a big problem, and not just a single glue failure.
3. Yeah I made/designed my own venting setup. I printed a 4"->6" adapter from the Glowforge to a 6" flex tube, that connects to a 6" AC Infinity fan, another flex tube to a 3D printed shut off gate, and that pokes through a laser cut wood piece that seals to the window cavity. No added filters, and the internal fan of the Glowforge is turned off. Overall the setup is much quieter than the stock Glowforge and has better airflow.