Laser Cut Stuff

Coloradoscopes posted these colour changing Jellyfish Lamps  to the laser engraving group , they're made from cherry, walnut and are glass backed which makes them really shine. I fish I could finish a product quite as neatly, if you can think of better puns then let minnow.

Instructables user Brichtl  made this great version laser cut version of Dudeneys Dissection , they go through the whole process of drawing, cutting and assembling, it's a well written article makes a nice item. It's not too puzzling to build but if you get it wrong it'll be wreck-tangled.

The decorations on these bottle openers , from Fowl Play Enterprises are all laser cut, it's a great example of how a little bit of finishing can make all the difference. Looking at the colours and the styles it's not immediately obvious that they were lasered. The puns appeal to me too, although making more alcohol related jokes already gives me a sense of deja brew.

The nice cuts team ran a mini workshop where they made these faux stained glass windows, laser cut from MDF. The idea is pretty simple but very effective, I imagine they would be a lot of fun to run for a group of kids. Clearly, you'd be shattered after running a workshop for the whole day but they totally smashed it.

Full Spectrum Laser are offering up these interesting maze designs through the instructables website . The mazes are constructed of 3 layers with the walls sandwiched between the two outer layers, very small ball bearings are inserted into the layers to make the maze game. Being an instructable they provide pictures and files so you won't get lost while trying to recreate it.

SugarCookie has produced a whole range of these laser cut bobbins  for her etsy store. They would make great gifts for any crafty person in your life. Something like this could stop you spooling around and get all your presents buttoned up well in advance.

Damion Silver  laser cut this beautiful skate deck , when you take a closer look you can see that by changing the line style he's managed to created darker areas on the board which gives it a two tone effect. The white lines are just the places where the board hasn't been engraved at all. There's no half-pipe jobs here, he's ramped it all the way up to eleven to create this wonderful board.

Britt has made this cute little shadow box full of Halloween demons using her new glowforge laser . Layering the cuts outs creates an excellent sense of depth, I'd love to see what it looked like with some LED illumination between the layers. These little characters look like they're having a devil of a good time, they're so cute though they could easily be a ghouls best friend.

Red Beam Designs has made some rather nice gothic style wargaming terrain, they've got lots of other amazing models on their site too, great for inspiration or purchasing directly. Once you have a library of architectural features you can make infinite variations upon a theme, but building up the library in the first place must be a bit of a pain in the buttress.

This endless calendar , by instructables author  nakeishaestrada , is very simple but also very functional, it's a neat little example that shows how easy it is to use the laser cutter to make tangible items. I keep trying to think of puns for this but they're a bit too week, if you've got any better suggestions I'm all years.

The glowforge forums are soon to be a hotbed of inspiration while people figure out how to use their new laser cutters and this free design is a great place to start. The cathedral wine box is an iteration of a previous design and it would make for an amazing gift. You'll need to make sure you red white down to the bottom of the article to find the svg files. What more reisling do you need to make one?

Ki-Gu-Mi wooden art puzzles  has a whole range of these fantastic models that like a lot of fun to put together. You'll need to move quickly if you want to adhopt one of these models, the website doesn't appear to have been updated for some time and it may just be living on burrowed time.

These signs made by laser flair  are engraved onto old scaffolding planks that have been cut down to size, the end result is rustic and very effective. You must have to align the planks Caerphilly to get brielliant results like this.

These notebooks by Creative use of tech  cleverly cut through the font cover and expose a coloured sheet underneath it to make the text stand out. The details are a bit sketchy but if you book really closely you can see the tell tale cut marks of the laser.

Lexus commissioned a fully functional electric car built from laser cut cardboard. It comprises 1700 individual pieces and took 3 months, I imagine the builders were quite card-bored by the end of assembly.

Sometimes a customer presents you with hand drawn artwork for laser cutting, this post from Nice-Cuts  describes how you can quickly convert it into something laserable and show several of the different cutting options. It's not always pawsible for people to generate their own CAD but when you can convert sketches those people are free to spend koalaty drawing in other ways.

With end of summer approaching and the weather turning a little bit chillier again, the peeps over at Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts  have created this cute little banner to celebrate the occasion. Don't beleaf it though, I expect we'll have a few more sunny days before we move into the gourd-geous season of Autumn.

The folks over at CutLaserCut have discovered you can engrave cocoa butter when they made this sign for Lush Cosmetics .  The results are margarine-ally better than doing it by hand and you probably want to put something under it to catch any drips, butter safe than sorry.