The first flower I drew and cut was sort of rendition of a daisy. I basically drew a flower shape and cut it out. I was testing as much as anything else. This one here
So now that I had my own proof of concept, it opens the doors to bunch of other things. Anyway my goal is to make 5 or 6 different species of flowers in the next few weeks. Don’t worry, I’m working on about 10 things simultaneously. I have a bunch of stuff cut currently, but I don’t get in my new painting equipment until 1/10/25. So while I’d like to finish up what I have cut I can’t make myself use my current stuff knowing it’ll be a huge waste of time considering what is on the way. Anyway, back to the case in point.
I cut the above pictured flowers and proved I can cut these really fine lines with my table. I’m still testing how small I can go and there is a fine line between perfect and melted goop. I have crossed the line a few times in testing but still haven’t been able to fully define it. So, after the daisy I started working on the daffodil.
You’ll notice this one took a little ‘battle damage’. Testing that fine line between great and melted goop. Either way it for the most part worked and with a little adjustment we have a good workable (and repeatable) cut file.
The finished product, mind you this first one has a couple of flaws but I’m only going up from here!
What really excites me about this is the sky is the limit. I know more or less what I can do as far as equipment limitations. Which in turn tells me I can do just about anything one way or the other. Part of my curse is wanting to do stuff differently than everyone else. This is considerably harder to do that simply cutting a sign and painting it a single solid color. There is also no shortage of people doing exactly that and making money doing it. I’ve never wanted to be like everyone else. Hopefully if you are seeing this you think to yourself, “I’ve never saw that before”.
