Create A Trending Name Puzzle Using A Glowforge Laser Cutter!

[@DeannDavis-o7t]

> 1. What thickness of wood do you use in the maple plywood? > 2. What thickness of clear acrylic do you use? > 3. I downloaded Inkscape and cannot get certain fonts to carry over for my name fonts.

[@ashleefalco]

1. This is the maple plywood I use: rstyle.me/+LsSpFxVw2jtBz4f7VKLYEg 2. The acrylic is: 1/4" (i buy it from glowforge but I checked and they're sold out right now) 3. I have noticed that font names sometimes get jumbled in inkscape - i'm not sure how to fix this, I just gotta surf for them and then make a note of them for later use so I can search for it easier.

[@nancyjeancranmer7028]

You are frickin’ brilliant. Just my style of thinking. Gonna go find your materials now. I was under the impression that cutting clear acrylic never works on the aura. And I need to know what sticker paper you used. I have an Epson 3800 inkjet printer. I subscribed to your channel and I’ll be watching more of your videos. Thank you so much. Nancy

[@ashleefalco]

with the aura you won't be able to cut clear acrylic, but you can totally do this project with different color of acrylic of even do more wood letters.

[@dejacks6981]

Can you do this with the Wecreate

[@ashleefalco]

You won’t be able to cut clear acrylic on the wecreat. But could substitute with a different color acrylic or doing just wood.

[@dejacks6981]

@@ashleefalco thank you.

[@lisawhite9725]

What an awesome tutorial…Ashlee! I’ve made a few of these but didn’t add the edge banding. I definitely will have to try that. ❤❤

[@ashleefalco]

The edge banding is my favorite part of the entire thing LOL it really does give it a finished look IMO

[@terrycarlton919]

This is so cute! Thank you for sharing the step by step process. I don’t do lasers but I’m sending this to my best friend.

[@celinawright21]

I'm a total beginner so please forgive me if this is a silly question, why do you need paper masking tape on the wood?

[@ashleefalco]

Great question! It’s to prevent the flashback or smoke from being on your final project.

[@celinawright21]

@@ashleefalco okay thank you! Do you put this on any piece of wood? No matter if you’re cutting, engraving, scoring?