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Committing crimes against artistry to innocent photos. My interests are many and varied. Hate is not welcome here. (Neither are AI/ML scrapers, automated or otherwise.) [he/him/blockhead]
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It's been a while since I've done a straight-up regular engrave (without staining the piece beforehand) — certainly can't say I'm disappointed in the result! #art #woodworking #laserengraving #photography

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The grain on this one is a bit less than ideal (I should probably just give up on pine, to be honest), but of the engraving itself, I have no complaints! #art #woodworking #laserengraving #photography

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

OK, I don't want to get my hopes up too much, but I think I might — *might* — have figured out the banding issue. (There's one more going through a second pass in the engraver right now, which is looking good so far...) #art #woodworking #laserengraving #photography

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Sitting in the office with the curtains open, watching birds and squirrels snacking in the backyard, while a photo engrave *and* a 3D print are running in the craft room. As one does.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

More freshly-stained blanks, laid out to dry. #art #woodworking #laserengraving #photography

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So far, so good... #art #woodworking #laserengraving #photography

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Drove 45 minutes to a woodworking supply store earlier, and am now reading through a wood database website trying to find the best types of hardwood for staining and engraving. I guess this is my life now.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Looking better now! (The solution, at least for now, seems to be "less power, more passes", to the surprise of nobody whomsoever.) Now, I just need to get some more pine sanded smooth and stained to try again... #art #woodworking #laserengraving #photography

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

OK, I hit this thing with a few passes of 60-grit sandpaper, followed by a few of 150-grit, before staining. It doesn't have to be perfect, or really even all that presentable — it's just a test to see what it takes to deal with the banding in my photo engraves. #woodworking #laserengraving #art

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Cut and stained a bunch of poplar blanks, letting them dry for a while — I love that texture! #art #woodworking

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Closest to furthest: -Stuff that has been zapped with a laser -Stuff that is waiting to be zapped with a laser -The laser #art #woodworking #laserengraving #lasers

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Why keep going to the craft store hoping they have little plywood blanks in stock (they usually don't, or at least not many of them) when I can just go to the lumber yard, get a bunch of plywood sheets, and make my own? #woodworking #lasercutting

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A non-exhaustive list of things I've done today: -Gardening -Birdwatching -Woodworking (cutting boards with table saw) -Bike maintenance -Photo editing -More woodworking (laser engraving photos on stuff cut earlier) -Wood *staining* (to be engraved later) -3D modeling (stands for engraved stuff)

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters 🥷🐢 [crumbles into dust]

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I've spent the last several hours teaching myself how to use Shapr3D so that I could make a 3D-printable low-profile display stand for wood laser engraving projects. As one does. #3DPrinting

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Oooh, shiny! (Is this...good?)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Huh...it's not too often that I can find a photo I've taken that can be stripped down to 8 colors and still produce a decent result. #lofiphotography #photography #photomanipulation #art

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Slowly but surely getting better at the Photoshop end of things... (Not *good*, because being terrible is kind of the point, but *better*.) #lofiphotography #photography #photomanipulation #art

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Nothing quite like being one of the first users to call into Apple Support for an issue with a brand new feature that everyone on the support team is just learning about...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Finally got around to cleaning out the gutters ahead of the next atmospheric river, which I should have done several months ago — and was very quickly reminded of why I kept procrastinating, courtesy of numerous scrapes, cuts, bruises, and mud from head to toe.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

OK, why in the world is there an Air Force tanker doing laps over the top of my house right now?

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments