{"id":15,"date":"2013-12-21T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T05:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2014-02-08T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:15:34","slug":"mackies-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Mackie’s Pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decided to memorialize the fall of a fiend’s fallen comrade<\/a> with a small piece of jewelry.\u00a0 Up until now, everything I have lased has been purely vector format, so this marks my first foray into grey-scale imagery.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2710\"<\/a>MSRaynsford had a series of articles where he was experimenting with reproducing grey-scale<\/a> using a combination of power setting adjustments and halftone conversions for the photos.<\/p>\n

I just went halftone, and adjusted the power, speed, and focusing distance until I was getting good blacks on the wood.<\/p>\n

I went with MDF because it’s a uniform composition of wood; there’s no grain that will take different amounts of burning.\u00a0 Plus the etching blows out the surface of the wood, so there’s no use in wasting wood with grain to it.<\/p>\n

The final cut pass was generated by expanding the path around the photo, and came out with sharper corners than I anticipated.\u00a0 I would have rounded them down with sandpaper, but then the parts I sanded down would be light exposed MDF contrasting with the blackened MDF generated after the cut pass.<\/p>\n

Grabbed a fine silver (looking) chain from Michael’s, and it made for a fine memorial gift.<\/p>\n

Lessons Learned<\/strong>
\nHow to etch in grey-scale with a laser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decided to memorialize the fall of a fiend’s fallen comrade with a small piece of jewelry.\u00a0 Up until now, everything I have lased has been purely vector format, so this marks my first foray into grey-scale imagery. MSRaynsford had a series of articles where he was experimenting with reproducing grey-scale using a combination of power … Continue reading Mackie’s Pendant<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,8,6],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gift","tag-jewerly","tag-laser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}