So much for sitting around after work. Just got an order for 1500 Christmas ornaments for the church I attend. At 5hrs17min a sheet of 82, it’s going to take a few days. 1/4 of the sheets of 3mm gold mirror are here, the others to be ordered Friday. Going to be a busy few weeks.
(edited to add…they only needed 750 last year, and ‘it’ll be tight’ this year. Growing a bit are we?)
(And before you ask, there’s no profit in this other than giving back to my church. They get charged materials costs only. My reward is waiting in heaven)
15 Likes
Those look great! Nice work!
It’s always nice to get big jobs like that with long cycle times. I have a reading chair next to my laser and noise cancelling headphones for that reason 
4 Likes
What kind of material is that? Is it metal or acrylic. And what machine did you cut it with?
Brother, yer awesome!!! God bless!!!
2 Likes
Thanks. I’ll give it a try. I have a 35/70 watt Diode laser but i usually use the 35 watt setting. Any suggestion for power and speed for cutting and engraving other than trial and error.
Thanks for the info. Ill give everything a try when i get my Mirror Sheets
I order some Gold Mirror Acrylic from Amazon but it says it has an adhesive back. Is this the wrong stuff.
Thats pretty cool, great result so far.
I’d love to see your settings for the infill pattern portion. That’s a cleaver design.
Love the design! Any chance that you can provide the Lightburn file? I was looking for something to give to the family for xmas with their names.
I just received my sheet yesterday, I have a 60 watt Omtech. Hope it does not he job. I’m also curious about how it’s setup in lightburn. I would like to make them as a fundraiser for our church
Attached. Local restaurant chain that treats me right every time. For the holiday’s they do a paper ornament for employees. I’m going to set them up a bit nicer this year. Same settings I use for the Christmas stuff, done for the 100W. You’ll have to adjust them for your machine, as well as the shape and contents. Oh, and fill before cut. With the air on, it can push some of the pieces out of position and blur a few things. Something I’m sure we’ve all learned over the years.
One thing that I’ve had to do is make the file differentiate between the fill areas and the line/cut areas. Sometimes adding in a duplicate shape over/under so you get both fill and cut along the same line. This version of the ornament is about as basic as you get.
Both attached. It’s too early, coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. Hope no one copied these before…fixed the line/fill that was swapped. 10:39EST 19 October 2025)
single.lbrn2 (74.5 KB)
single2.lbrn2 (124.5 KB)
1 Like
Thanks the file worked great
1 Like