Interesting variation on Aztec calendar

My under-motivated effort at a 4" coaster.


This is 5mm birch ply cut on a 45W CO2 laser at full speed and the lowest power setting I’ve ever used (.25%). Lots of charring. I have a lens that can do finer detail, but I can’t justify the time right now.
@PhilJohnson Your turn!

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Looks kinda like a crispy critter. Valiant effort though!

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Did you do a vector engrave?

Maybe a raster engrave would be lighter. Might even be faster at that size.

A raster would definitely be lighter. I still think the detail will be lost. I had the file open, I had some birch on the laser, I had the laser on, and I had 10min. Scaled and went for it. I think it took about 8 minutes.
I might give it another go tomorrow with a raster. If I do, I’ll report back.

Ill only claim the arrangement in the circle as original because thats all im doing.

Made this one as a tribute to you not dropping it like everyone else has… not original art just arrangement in a circle … feel free to copy it all day long bro…

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I don’t care who ya are… that is funny right there

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Here’s mine, i’m real, I got one, and I don’t know what to do with it…lol bwahahaha! :stuck_out_tongue: 180314-192249

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Homie, I can see that I got off on the wrong foot with apparently everyone in the cnc world with this thread, i dropped it and was fine to let things stay squashed, you rekindled our love/hate flame with a snarky remark… Im cool bro, seriously… but if I have to actually prove that I belong here, I can do that.

So…the first will be orders i had this week, all requested images sent from customers…28833231_2000888106592324_1350445256_n28833031_2000888143258987_1916063595_n

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Picks of my router to prove I own one…

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Dude straight up, we coo… Im cool with everyone here…

Cant post any selfies NSA could be watching…again
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go on youtube and look up multicam 5000 router best investment a 2cd mortgage can buy…

life begins at zero homie

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I really purchased the xc for the saturday cnc workshops I host… hella easier than the mc5 to use for the new guys and the software is most customer friendly… mc5 uses sai enroute cad/cam software, not user friendly…

I call bull sh&@. I think you just pulled that out of you a$$. :joy:

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so I can’t figure out if this is done or not. I want to pack more in but it is already just too busy. I think If I were to do something like this again. I would do better planning from the start. I sorta just filled things in randomly here. I think it is ready to be cut unless someone has any suggestions.

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Agree with @AngusMcleod. Maybe fill in some sparse “layers” with a pattern?

Agreed. Mine is lacking a good semetrical repeating pattern though.

Just did a first raster engraving test on my own built laser. (LAYZOR (7) – Electrical + first test run)

Not an aztec calendar but it fits with the overall theme I’d say :sunglasses:

Artwork is not mine, and certainly not mine to share. Don’t ask.

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