Woodland Nature Wood Prints

http://www.etsy.com/shop/tugboatprintshop

These have been designed by tugboat print shop

Laser Cutting Information for Wood & Plastic

Laser cutting information for wood

Maximum Component Size	3000x1500mm (but usually limited by sheet size of 2440x1220mm)
Minimum Component Size	Very Small - depends on material thickness
Maximum Thickness	Around 25mm
Minimum Thickness	<0.8mm
Minimum Detail	Detail should not usually be less than 30% of the material thickness e.g. minimum 3mm diameter hole in 9mm thick material
General Cutting Tolerance	>6mm - +/-0.1mm 6-12mm - +/-0.2mm >12mm - +/-0.3mm
Effects of Thermal Cutting	Because these are organic materials the cut edge charsand is covered with carbon - the thicker the material the more pronounced the effect.
Common Grades Stocked	Most grades and finishes are available - waterproof, fire resistant, vennered etc. are usually available in most thicknesses.
Common Sheet Sizes	2440x1220mm; Occasionally 3000x1500mm
Common Applications	Decorative Panels, Exhibition / Theatre Sets, Stencils, Restoration, Engineered Components and just about everything else!

Informations for laser cutting Plastic

Maximum Component Size	3000x1500mm
Minimum Component Size	Very Small - depends on material thickness
Maximum Thickness	25mm Acrylic, others - please ask (it really varies!)
Minimum Thickness	<0.5mm
Minimum Detail	Detail can usually be around 10% of material thickness, but this does vary with the type of plastic.
General Cutting Tolerance	>3mm - +/-0.1mm 3-15mm - +/-0.2mm >15mm - +/-0.3mm
Effects of Thermal Cutting	Cut edge quality varies by type, but on the whole is excellent. There can be stress raisers formed in the cut edge with certain materials.
Common Grades Stocked	Polypropylene, Polycarbonate, Nylon, LDPE / HDPE, Mylar. Brand Names include - Perspex, Plexiglas, Irpen, Policril, Lucite, Zotefoam, Repsol, Altuglas, Priplak, Lexan, Medite
Common Sheet Sizes	2000x1500mm, 3000x1000m
Common Applications	Sign, Display, Decorative Panels, Point-of-sale, Promotional Items, Jewellery - the list goes on!

Good woods to use are solid brown oak, walnut, oak, mahogany and maple basically hardwood.

We need to go into the tech building and see in they could order us some wood in from there timber yard.

Apparently all plastic is fine to be laser cut

Product Research

In are meetings we decided to focus on producing eight main products including the sketch book. These products are :

1. Ornaments

2. Gift wrap

3. Card Prints

4. Jewelry tree

5. Biscuit cutters with cake tin

6. Garden set

7. Canvas Prints

8. Sketch book

We need to find out where we can get these made at low cost, what materials to use, methods to use , How much products out there already sell for so we can work out are profit margins and finally how long they take to manufacture as this would be a time effecting factor as well we need to think about the time of turnaround.

Wooden Creatures Concepts

These are just ideas for possible ways to create the creatures and ways to make them stand up by themselves.
Also sadly i doubt the duck will make it to the end product.

Going to keep pushing them and start some ideas for the illustrations, and develop the sharing/ friend theme more.

Woodland Nature

We have chosen a woodland nature to base some of are product designs around. In woodland nature there are many animals which can be found here are some of my suggestions for design idea's.

Each individual woodland habitat has varied animals. Common animals in the woodland habitat include:

Land animals: snowshoe hare, roe deer, white-tailed deer, bobcat, mountain lion, lynx, black and grizzly bear, red wolf, red fox, badger, squirrel, raccoon, skunk and gray wolf.

Sky animals: woodpecker, magpie, peregrine falcon, tawny owl, woodpecker, jay, wood pigeon, willow warbler and goldcrest.

All about beetles, grasshoppers, ladybirds, moths, butterflies, wasps and many more

Products

Soul Bird

• Handcrafted in England.
• Made from solid brown oak from a sustainable source.
• Varnished finish.
• Size 14.5 x 12cm.
• Screen printed detail (on one side only)
• Branded artist name and personally numbered by hand.
• Each bird is individual due to different grain marking and subtle variations of colour in the oak.
• Edition of 100 only!
• £75

Can be found at http://www.sanna-annukka.com/home/

From Paperchase £8.50

recipe book

Again from paper chase £6.50

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