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I still get asked about leather and maps in particular. I made this map for a friend who supplied the leather to experiment with. It was remarkably painless and straight forward, the map was already drawn, I estimated the laser power reasonably well, turned up the resolution and got this map etched in 90 minutes. So my experiments in leather have been reasonably good. I'm now tempted to buy some stock just in case an order comes but I just can't get over the smell. It's nasty stinky stuff and even now it's finished it's sat on my work bench stinking the place up. Until I get some better extraction I think I'll just be leaving leather for special request jobs.

Another day another request from a friend, these are two fans made from 1.5mm ply, the handle was sandwiched with 6mm ply on either side for extra strength. I drew these up and put them together quickly but in hindsight I should have put something laser etched on the paddles. I believe they are to be decorated with peacock feathers and that's a design that may have engraved well.

A friend is making some awesome, and slightly unusual, props from the bioshock infinite computer game. One of the first things on the list is this police barrier that he's making from an old pallet. It's a nice looking item so far but he mentioned that he would be hand cutting some stencils for the lettering. 'No' says I, the Nottinghack laser cutter might be out of action currently but I'm more than happy to cut items and post them up for people making awesome projects. I shall await photos of the finished item and post here later.

LARP seems to be an endless source of laser cut items. This time around it's a series of mysteries for the game Odyssey . The mysteries are like epic level spells that a team of people have to work together to perform, these tokens give a brief idea of what the spell does and is the focus of the spell too so it can't be cast without it. There are 3 different materials, wood for the most common mysteries, then green and amber frosted acrylics for the extra special items. (custom job, no files) 27 Projects/ 32 weeks (falling a bit behind)

After releasing the jewellery stands  designs onto thingiverse , Karl Seegel of KR Stuudio  was inspired to make his own variant . He was kind enough to tell me about it and he managed to fix one of the main issues with the originals, making them much stronger. He was also happy for me to use his design as the inspiration for this design and it all comes full circle. It's not a huge variation but switching the custom logo out for ye olde bees gives it a much broader appeal. The extra strength was achieved by the addition of a second layer to the front, framing the details nicely (I should go back and add them in to the older designs). ( svg here )

I've been inspired to make a variant of the ingenious board game . After playing the original with our good friends Nichola and Andrew (who evidently read my blog) I realised that it would convert well to a LRP game where each one of the 6 symbols is replaced with the magical realm symbols. It lends itself nicely because your final game score is only as high as your lowest score so you do well if you balance the realms.

Ok so it's not entirely new but I'm giving it another shot and this time the laser ply came from a different source. HPC now do 6mm laser ply and I've mentioned a few times how good there 3mm ply is so it's no surprise that this stuff is great too. I cut the first item below for a friend, expect to see a follow up once it's actually assembled so we can all figure out what it actually is.