I wanted to use up a little piece of Purple Heart and play with some mixed media this weekend. The mother in law runs a dog grooming business, I put this together in a one day build so some choices were made with that in mind…
Lots of room for improvement but it’s not bad given the time and material constraints.
Purple Heart wood engraved on the nomad 3. 0.1mm copper clad laser cut and set in the engraving (could use v-bit but I wanted to practice cutting on the laser).
Brass bars are solid, 1/4” for the bent pieces, 1/2” for the large bar.
Bent bars are threaded on the wood side. They thread into an EZ-lock threaded insert in the backside of the wood.
Large bar is interference fit to the smaller bent bars.
(Sign says “ruff” in a terrible font…but that’s what she chose so🤷♂️)
Lessons learned:
Bending things consistently is trickier than expected.
The copper sheet is a huge pain to cut with a 60w fiber laser, v-bit will be interesting to try instead.
“Hammering” copper gives a more interesting texture than expected. It’s smoother looking in person than in the photos.
My finishing game for wood is pretty weak. I don’t even have an orbital sander 