A little something I have been working on, still a WIP. These are some of the wooden parts and one glass panel. There will be more decorative glass panels to come. All designed in sketchup then exported using Eneroth’s SVG extension to my laser software. Some might question using 3d software for this but it makes it simple to create the different ‘layers’, easy separation using groups/components etc and you can see how it all interacts before you start burning wood.
The concept is a promotional object that can be dropped in a letterbox, something that would usually be thrown away as junk mail but in this case seen as something of interest and placed on display or passed on to another interested party . Obviously only a targeted audience is involved.
Superb craftsmanship and great promotional idea. 
Excellent! What’s the wood, and it thickness, and which laser do you have? (I’m thinking of getting one.)
The wood is simple 3mm plywood from the local hardware store. I’ve used walnut stain on it to give it some warmth. The laser is a chinese diode laser, Neje is the brand name.
How did you create the “razzmatazz”? It is really neat. 
Thanks, I will take a look. 
Absolutely fantastic 
Since one of the ideas for these things is to travel around the country on my bike dropping them off at regional churches, ones that look like they need work and don’t have access to local craftsmen, I figured I needed a travel box. Something that will keep them from rattling around in my panniers and have a little more style than a cardboard box when you pull it out to hand one over.
Thought I would add this as an example of how I use Sketchup to work out the logistics of these things. The arches are just a repetition of the one shape using offset to do the cutouts and keep everything uniform. Then I make a design and use ones I like.
Some examples:
Some don’t make the cut, and there are many more.
Then you see the basics of the 20 piece box and its parts laid out using Eneroth’s tools and the current thoughts I have on a box for 10. I have all the other designs in a separate file and use Eneroth’s .svg exporter to send them to Lightburn where I can fit them together for the laser.
Brillant! This will bring in the jobs.
Very creative marketing concept. I love it!
This is a test vid i recorded to see if its worth developing some instructional vids of my work. I warn you it is nearly 3 hours in real time. But youtube lets you whiz through it and just stop if you actually spot anything interesting. Which I doubt. It also isnt complete so dont expect to see it off the bench and up to the light.
Great thinking hands gesture at 2:09:27!
Making instructional videos sounds like a good idea to me as a way of passing along knowledge in crafts/arts. How to present it may be tough though. Just to mention something that recently caught my attention: I was watching a video of a fellow doing window glazing and it was the tips and tricks that I might not have noticed that were explicitly mentioned that made the video really worthwhile. For example how to work/prep the glazing, the correct angle to hold the knife and the direction it was best to work it, the specialty hammer for push points, condition of the wood and possibility of touching it with oil first, etc., etc., etc. There must be hundreds of gold nuggets in your video (or future videos) that you could point to so others could see them. Good luck in developing these.
Very interesting to watch.
Tip to the viewer: to enjoy and learn to the fullest, turn your screen upside down.
(No joke, this may seem strange but it’ll give you an entire different perspective.)
Oh dear, so true, I just watched it and you are absolutely correct.
Problem is when playing around with camera placement I had it sort of behind my head and kept moving it further forward looking back at me, but stupidly didn’t turn the camera over as I moved it. So instead of a straight down ‘plan’ view you are getting an angled view that is indeed upsidedown.
I did say it was a test, D’oh.
But surely that means it is the right way up in your part of the world.
(I discovered by standing on my head first)
No, I turned my Chromebook upside down.
But maybe software provides a command to do this job instead of doing so with a(n old tube) 32" monitor.
Or maybe at your end uploading the video “upside down” to YouTube.
The angle you filmed is perfect. It’s like (as viewer) standing at the other side of the master’s work bench.