{"id":646,"date":"2017-01-16T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/?p=646"},"modified":"2017-01-16T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T02:11:15","slug":"a-valentines-day-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/general\/a-valentines-day-project","title":{"rendered":"A Valentines Day Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Christmas and New Years over\u00a0I decided to look forward to another holiday when I was thinking about my next laser cutting project.<\/p>\n

It starts with a plan. In this case I took the drawing the I created for my Christmas candle, delete the tree and added some hearts. I created three different patterns.<\/p>\n

\"Plans\"<\/p>\n

Then I cut some of the boards that I’m recycling from old blinds to the correct length (enough to make one candle and still fit in the laster cutter)<\/p>\n

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Laser Cutting is the next step. It takes about two\u00a0and a half minutes to cut out each candle holder. You can also see that it takes the whole width of the blind.<\/p>\n

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With the pieces all cut out, including the four pieces of red tissue paper all that is left is to glue it all together.<\/p>\n

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Here are the three prototypes. Which means …
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… ready to go into production.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1855\" Happy Valentine’s Day a month early.<\/p>\n

Doug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Christmas and New Years over\u00a0I decided to look forward to another holiday when I was thinking about my next laser cutting project. It starts with a plan. In this case I took the drawing the I created for my Christmas candle, delete the tree and added some hearts. I created three different patterns. Then … Continue reading “A Valentines Day Project”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}