{"id":30,"date":"2004-11-04T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T00:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=30"},"modified":"2004-11-30T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T17:57:09","slug":"1st-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"1st Blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Might as well start somewhere&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/crates_3.jpg\" alt=\"crates_3.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nImage Copyright 2004 Tim Warris<\/p>\n<p>Several months after purchasing our laser cutter to produce our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handlaidtrack.com\/category.php?id=243&#038;link_str=243\">Quick Sticks<\/a> Laser Cut Ties I finally got around to playing with it, other than producing &#8216;revenue&#8217; stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I made some laser cut crates for freight car loads, these are made from two separate pieces of 1\/64th plywood, glued on top of each other.  One of the neat features of laser cutters is the dark edge they create when cutting, makes for a very visible edge and a lot of &#8216;dimension&#8217; on the finished parts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Little crates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another approach was to &#8216;engrave&#8217; crates from solid pieces of wood.   One thing not seen to often in laser cut kits are engraved parts.  Laser cutters are usually marketed as &#8216;laser engravers&#8217; mainly used in the sign and trophy industires, adjusting power settings will allow them to cut as well, the method used to produce kits.  Engraving is a very slow process, and unsuited to production work, which is why the technique is rarely used in kits.<\/p>\n<p>Using the engraving technique I was able to mass produce smaller crates, 10 at a time on some 1\/4&#8243; basswood, rotating it a quarter turn each time.  Once complete I cut them into individual crates.  A quick way to make several nice looking crates for a loading dock&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/crates_2.jpg\" alt=\"crates_2.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nImage Copyright 2004 Tim Warris<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/crate.jpg\" alt=\"crate.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nImage Copyright 2004 Tim Warris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser cut crates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}