Bone appetite


Glowforge user kittski, posted these Halloween Trinkets over on the community pages. They are painted before engraving to give a distressed appearance. The miniature skulls appear to have come out extremely well.

They made both positive and negative engravings to see which was best, I guess their heart just wasn't in it.

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