In real life.
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A really simple example of how sketchup can be used to help design some promotional material.
I've basically started with a gothic arch and an offset and worked from there. I've kept the two original outlines as the standard and used them to make everything else fit.
I created the designs in sketchup and used Eneroth's .svg exporter to get the linework into Lightburn for the laser.
These are some of he designs.
I was able to use them for both cutting the wood and working with the glass paint.Then I designed a box to fit them in, it helped being able to use 3d models to work out how things fit together.
You can see the complete box to hold 20 'cards' and its corresponding flat layout ready for the laser and my current thinking on a box for 10 with a hinged and sloped lid.
I didn't find the need to model all the cutouts and engraving in sketchup, although I could have, since I had exported them all ready for the laser.
So it became a simple case of put the parts together in Lightburn and set fire to everything.
The current result being a finished set of 20 with traveling box.
For those wondering, I have created these as a way to promote one of my skills and to help a troubled industry. Stained Glass is under threat from different angles, just some of which are declining interest in Old Stuff, Nanny state terror of working with lead, general indifference and weathering of old buildings. I'm hoping to use these to give some of those with an interest in restoring their old windows somewhere to turn. To that end I plan to take some road trips around regional Australia and talk to people and leave these as a point of contact.
They aren't your average pamphlet stuffed in your letterbox. -
Fantastic work and all the best in your efforts to save some of the beauty and history of the world.
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Fantastic business cards!
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Wow. (Senseless word/character limitation).
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Hi Box, yes great business cards
Are you concerned about them being produced my modern computer tech as apposed to traditional technologies?
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@L-i-am said in In real life.:
Are you concerned about them being produced my modern computer tech
No, it's more about nanny state regulations and how times have changed.
Several glass producers, the raw glass sheets not the finished product, have closed their doors in the last few years due to prohibitive regulations that just make it impossible for the business model to succeed.Regulations regarding the use of lead, the other main part of our industry, are driving many companies under and they are even on the verge of banning the use of lead all together.
Along with all that the digital age has turned people away from 'crafts' and made everyone go more Ikea in their design ideas. Brown furniture as antiques are often referred to have lost all value, once a family heirloom now a burden to be disposed of when 'downsizing your parents'.
On top of that there are very few of us professionals left and even fewer being trained. Back when I was apprenticed there were stained glass studios all over the place, most with apprentices or trainees and just about every evening college had classes for hobbyists. I was teaching when I was a second year apprentice. Now I can count the studios in Sydney on one hand and students are very rare.
I could continue on the subject ad nauseam with stories of declining markets due to fewer churches being built... insufficient funds within the established churches to add new windows or maintain what they have... lack of interest in domestic work and so on and so forth.
There is also the missheld belief that, 'oh special people made them and they can't be done that way these days, it's a lost art'. Bollocks.
Here end'th the ramble.
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Excellent work.
Once I saw the scale. I was reminded of Sunday School crafts where we have these almost same scale of frames and used colored cellophane to glue onto it and act as stained glass.
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Yes Box, I try not to think about how the world is, but normally to no avail. so many skills becoming redundant. Pretty sad. Also what I worry about is screen time for kids concerns me very much, I feel like we are living in an experiment
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