I finally got around to using the laser cutter this week. I spoke to Adan the CAM technician initially to see how I would go about using the laser-cutter for marquetry purposes. It wouldn't be possible to produce an inlay on the laser cutter so 2 pieces of material would need to be used; one to cut the pieces from, another to provide a base. Although it may have been possible to create an inlay on the router, this would require a smaller "head", which as well as being expensive would be likely to break easily.
I created some coffee rings in my sketchbook and after scanning the images in I cleaned the images up an traced them using Illustrator. I then used Vectorworks to move and place the individual rings on the canvas. I had used a very similar process for creating my paper lantern designs last year.
I also cut some circular shapes with the intention of filling and upholstering these to create moss "cushions" which could then be slotted back into the piece they had been cut from. The idea was to create the impression of moss growing on the MDF/ply.
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