When we went to Las Vegas back in 2006, one of the souvenirs we bought Andrea was a light switch plate from the Bellagio with her favorite flower, a hydrangea. This plate was a fixture in our bathroom from the day we returned until the day we moved to Seattle.
Unfortunately, our new house uses the larger 'rocker' style light switch instead of the traditional toggle, so this face plate is relegated to our junk drawer. Enter The Garage, where yet again, I am etching metal. This time around, I went a little more deliberate than the douglas fir face plate.
I started with an outline of a hydrangea I found online. Using the rocker template I whipped up, I reduced the complexity and, more importantly, the area required for the laser to hit. The resulting file was about what I planned to cut:
The final cut took under ten minutes.
The result was pretty good, though I neglected a bit of offset at the top, and some of the details on the leaves didn't get cut.
