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I finally fired up the Glowforge laser cutter. It's pretty swank. This was my first trial cut. I took a calligraphy pen, drew the kanji representing "Japan" on a piece of scrap paper, had the cutter scan it, then burn it into plywood.
It will also burn all the way through, in case I wanted to stencil, or will do its best to convert to a grayscale, so I could produce light/dark brush strokes.
The main point of a cutter is cutting things, but I think engraving things might be more useful to me. I'm currently engaged in using it to engrave LEGO bricks fairly deeply. I can then spray-paint the surface and sand it flat again, and have a nice inlay effect, that preserves a person's handwriting look. (Hm. This does imply that I now have excellent forgery skills, as this can draw in a nice dark brown color on paper.)
It will also burn all the way through, in case I wanted to stencil, or will do its best to convert to a grayscale, so I could produce light/dark brush strokes.
The main point of a cutter is cutting things, but I think engraving things might be more useful to me. I'm currently engaged in using it to engrave LEGO bricks fairly deeply. I can then spray-paint the surface and sand it flat again, and have a nice inlay effect, that preserves a person's handwriting look. (Hm. This does imply that I now have excellent forgery skills, as this can draw in a nice dark brown color on paper.)