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I did it. I just ordered a laser cutter.
There’s this company called Glowforge that’s made a new consumer-level laser cutter, and after a year or so of hearing whispers about it they have now released it for pre-order.
The specs are totally reasonable. 40 Watt CO2 laser, 12x20 inch cutting bed. They’re doing a lot of fancy stuff with a cloud-based driver, like optically locating your material and registering your artwork onto it. A lot of that stuff is pretty darn cool, but I probably won’t use much of that functionality. In the end it probably won’t quite negate my need to go in and rent time on the big cutters at the laser store, but I’ll be able to produce lot of my designs quickly and easily without paying someone else. And it’ll make prototyping super easy.
The retail price they’ve set for the cutter is $4000, but for the rest of their pre-order period they’re offering it at HALF OFF. Which is freaking awesome. If you too want a laser cutter of your very own, go check them out before the end of the week!
But wait there’s more! If you use my referral link: http://glowforge.com/referred/?kid=6N3AV you’ll get an extra $100 off the discounted price, and I’ll also get $100 back! If you use my link to buy a cutter I’ll send you a pile of sweet laser-cuttable designs that I’ve made that you can cut for yourself!
The last few weeks were pretty darn busy for me partly because I was working to complete a large order of these horned crowns. The customer needed 40 of them for a youth theater performance. Since hand work is only marginally sped up by parallelizing, I did them in series, shipping them out in batches of 5 as I completed them. The one thing I was sad about was that it meant I couldn’t get a photo with a huge pile of all 40 of them, as I never had more than 10 at a time.
This was easily the largest order I’ve received. It was tiring, but exciting.
Here, have some photos of a laser cutter in action! This is one of the things that’s keeping my super busy this month. Someone ordered 30 of these horned headbands, to be used in as I understand it a color guard act. So I’m making these as quickly as I can.
The other thing that’s keeping me busy this month is apartment hunting. The place I’m in now is being gutted to become condos as of September, and so I’m having Fun Times with Craigslist.
Testing out making leather masks sized to fit fursuit heads, and I think it worked pretty well! I think I'll have a small stack of them at my table at Anthro New England!
I could do any of my small masks like this, so if you’re going and would like a specific design/color, let me know and I can make one for you. Otherwise I’ll just have a mix of colors and styles to choose from.
Since I expect there's a lot of variation in fursuit face shapes and sizes, I think the way it'll work is to bring them dyed+sealed, but not formed, and the process will involve meeting with people in the evening to saran wrap their heads and form the leather, then they bring it back to their rooms and let it dry for a few hours.
I should never be trusted with a laser cutter.
Anyway, I made a map of a space station from one of my WIPs with it.
My Boss: a laser cutter is a tool of precision and detail that can create highly complex desig-
Me: hehe ralsweed
GOD FUCKING damnit KRIS where the FUCK are we!?
also...
what’s is that SMELL!?
