How did your cat learn to not nibble on AC cords?
No idea, but it avoids them judiciously. I suspect it has something to do with their thickness and lack of pliability relative to USB cords as opposed to nearly (un)naturally selecting itself out of existence.
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Drew this up in Fusion 360 earlier in the week at home. Exported & cut it on the Plasmacam. Welded it together. I haven’t mounted to the wall yet for the tungsten bench grinder. I was able to check the fit in Fusion and found 1 error.
You can see where the consumables really started messing up in the pic above.
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Used my newfound knowledge from @talkers’ Midnight Makers vinyl cutting class to make some bling for my wife’s laptop lid.
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Had fun last night, and this morning, making characters with @artnerdray for the next Stop Motion Goof.
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this is a companion piece to the firefighter I put up last month with the resulting embossing. 3" piece of brass for a wallet back plate.
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Here is the rest of the Mother’s Day roses and pop up cards I worked on while waiting in the laser queue. 
One card previously posted.
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Hi all,
so i made this friday may 12th, but i’ve been working on the design and test cuts out of cardboard and scrap for a week or so.
My three year old nephew was having his birthday party on saturday and it was dinosaur themed. We have a no more toy present agreement with my brother-in-law for his kids and our kids. But i felt this didn’t really violate that agreement as it was “handmade”, using a laser. Anyway I feel it came out fantastic.
i cut it on the thunder laser, its made from 2 pieces of 1/4" plywood. Top Layer i think was a birch veneer and bottom layer was a maple veneer. I used 1/4-20 nylon Screws and Acorn Nuts as the finger pulls.
I cut out recesses in the maple bottom piece for the screw heads to sit. total time on laser was about 18 minutes.
I then used Titebond 3 and some clamps and weights to glue the two pieces together, had to use some superglue when i got home as one piece in the middle didn’t get clamped properly.
I delivered it to him on saturday and the little kid loved it, and everyone else at the party was thoroughly impressed.
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Mothers Day Gift. Made from 1/4" birch plywood that was cut on the Thunder laser. Wood was color washed with diluted (with water) acrylic paint and then finished with epoxy resin.
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This is a Settlers of Catan board I carved using the Multicam CNC Router. This is the project that led to the massive gouges currently in the spoilboard. Oops – sorry.
I dye stained the pieces, then put a few coats of polyurethane on them.
The board is for my brother, a Catan aficionado.
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Not quite a make but the compressor repair.
Pulled the head & cleaned the surfaces very well. Reassembled the heads. Drained the tanks. Changed the oil & air filter. After I assembled it on the first compressor, we ran it & the pressure relief was leaking. I replaced the leaking relief today. Also we re-ran the auto-drain.
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@TBJK This dude keeps an incredible amount of our equipment up and running. Nonsense Tim, you ARE Making - you’re MAKING things work enabling others to Make.
You are the Man! (At least one of the key folks that keeps stuff working!)
Many many thanks!
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While @pjgamber was working on his dinosaur puzzle friday night, he graciously helped me out in the woodshop. I had a 14" piece of alder I needed to get planed.
This will be a five string fretless bass guitar for a friend.
Saturday at home, I was able to get the piece routed and glued the maple top on…
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I love this so much!
finished cutting board i worked on for the last week. First one i made, used walnut(graciously given to me my a member “Terry”) and a large piece of Ash. Finished in Mineral Oil.
Approx size is 18"x12"x1"
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I had to do this last fall for my 2000 Toyota Camry!