Laser cutting

Monday 30th November
10-am: i had a silk screen printing induction with Jo Newton.

I then spent a small amount of time working on my toiles this morning but they weren't really going very well and I needed to progress with my laser cutting samples.

I spent a couple of hours this afternoon working on my images for the laser cutting then went to work with John Angus to figure out the appropriate settings.

I initially did a test for my jewelry / book cover, engraving onto glass. We had some troubles setting this up and there is a glitch in the program which meant when I converted the file from Adobe Illustrator into APS Ethos it duplicate it which meant that it was unable to fill in the engraving on the letters, so we had to play around with deleting and reconverting the image. Following this there was some kind of glitch meaning that it the laser engraved the outlines of the text but not the body of it, through re-converting into another document and adjusting settings John managed to resolve this.

Next I attempted to cut out the text as a logo for branding and adding on to the garment, the idea was to cut this from viscose leather and fablon. I had to heat press the leather to the backing to combat the fact that it might shrink and change shape. However when we set this up to cut out, the leather had too higher fat content and the power was set to high so it set on fire. John then had to go to a meeting so I had to break off at this point.