Ducking lasers.
Feb. 14th, 2025 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeliza I'm trying really hard not to panic, but it's been two weeks and I still haven't gotten the new laser working. We never managed to have a glowforge, though it was replaced twice, that wasn't lemon-scented, but at least setup was easy as hell.
I have a show to ship in a week, and need to not only make the new boxes but translate the designs from glowforge to light burn and do materials testing first. And while I finally got it to turn on, it then just makes the gantry jitter and nothing else.
This only increases my desire to learn woodworking hand tools, but that would both take months to be able to make boxes of decent quality and cutting the inlays is beyond my fine motor control.
Maybe I should have stayed a photographer, somehow.
Update: it's closer to working yay, the manualsucks and there was a sneaky piece of packing material, actual testing should happen tomorrow
I have a show to ship in a week, and need to not only make the new boxes but translate the designs from glowforge to light burn and do materials testing first. And while I finally got it to turn on, it then just makes the gantry jitter and nothing else.
This only increases my desire to learn woodworking hand tools, but that would both take months to be able to make boxes of decent quality and cutting the inlays is beyond my fine motor control.
Maybe I should have stayed a photographer, somehow.
Update: it's closer to working yay, the manualsucks and there was a sneaky piece of packing material, actual testing should happen tomorrow
