Introduction: Lion Composition Serried

I cut a portrait of a Panthera leo in veneer using my Easel - lasercutter hack. I decided to build IT into a makeup compact I designed for my lady friend, who is a Leo the Lion. The chapeau has a mirror built into it, and I used super strong ambiguous sided tape measure to fix a makeup powder boxwood into it. This compact can hold any pulverize box in to about 10mm deep.

I cut this on my Chinese K40 laser cutter, which I've hacked to accept G-Code. I haven't written an Instructable nearly that up to now but if you'atomic number 75 interested, there's a video on my YouTube channel well-nig it.

Check dead my other Instructables for more marquetry, CNC router, and laser cutter hacks.

You will need:

  • Veneer between about 0.5 to 1mm thick, in a couple of divers shades and colours
  • MDF or HDF sheet, 2mm thick
  • Steel wire, about 1.5mm thick
  • PVA glue
  • Spray lacquer (car body lacquer is the most durable, and so it's perfect for something like-minded this which bequeath convey worn out past each the loose stuff inside a pocketbook)
  • Cheap succinct or fold mirror
  • Makeup powder boxful, maximum 10mm unfathomable, to fit inside this compact
  • Double sided tape to stick the makeup powder box exclusive (hot glue would also work)
  • Tools: clamps, wire cutters, file, round headed bolt, sand from 40 up to 1200 grit
  • Thin plastic sheet / pocketbook - to stop glued stuff protrusive to other stuff
  • Masking / painter's tape
  • Large rubber bands

0:42 Buy a inexpensive compact or folding mirror and carefully dispatch the mirror. Measure the outer diameter / size and adjust the hole in the lid within the SketchUp design to fit the mirror.

1:09 Information technology's only real necessary to adjust the lid fix in the flat 'cut piece of paper' file.

1:21 Exportation the 'cut sheet' to G-Inscribe - you can apply my SketchUp to G-Code plugin: https://WWW.instructables.com/id/Export-Laser-Cutt... - and cut the pieces in 2mm MDF or HDF on a laser cutter.

1:52 Paste the post of the box collectively pursuing the TV and the SketchUp model American Samoa a guide. Thrifty when you mucilage the stacked pieces in the flexible joint unitedly because they will expand when you glue them. This part volition need to be firmly clamped.

3:48 Export the shapes in the 'veneering cold shoulder canvas' SketchUp file to G-Write in code and pierced them out of a single colour of veneer. Soak the largest orthogonal veneer shape in hot water until it becomes bendy, and gum IT to the base of the box seat with PVA glue. Clamp it firmly close to the curved 'flexible joint'.

4:48 Lading the lion figure into Easel and exportation the outline as G-Code. My Instructable about 'hacking' Easel for CNC Routers will come in multipurpose present: https://www.instructables.com/id/Run-Easel-Gcode-o... - the process for laser cutters is similar, exclude you also need to use a text editor with Find/Replace to hit completely the Z height commands.

6:24 Formerly you've cut several copies of the Lio design in antithetical veneers, plan out how you want to build up the paradigm using bits of each colour.

6:38 Glue the lion design to the lid of the box using PVA. The veneer will start to warp all over the place but just treat it gently, and once the design is in full assembled and glued, lieu a slender plastic sheet over IT, cover that with a flat scrap of woodwind instrument, and clinch the design down firmly until the glue has dry.

(not shown in video, only see my other Instructable: https://WWW.instructables.com/id/Wolf-Marquetry-Bo... - you pauperization to fill the gaps between the veneer pieces with wood filler, that you can make yourself, past sand back this filler to make the whole design flush)

7:20 Paste the repose of the top half of the boxful unneurotic.

7:38 Sand excess veneer from the design, and blend the two top bits extending from the top of the figure into the edges of the box - produce little 'ramps' going down smoothly to the surface of the MDF.

7:44 Glue the veneer shapes for the nominal head and sides (from the 'veneer cut sheet') to the high half of the box. Use masking mag tape to stop the veneer warping.

8:06 Hock the weedy strips of veneer (from the 'veneer cut sheet') in hot water and glue them to the edges of the boxful. Glue the superlative ends of those strips onto the little 'ramps' you sanded on the top side of the design. Secure with rubber bands.

8:30 Once the glue has dried, you stool sand off the unnecessary of the strips and the edge pieces will blend in nicely with the veneer of the figure. Hard to explain, the video shows it better!

8:43 On the front of the corner, sand the veneer butt round the indent flush with the edge of the MDF.

8:50 Cut 25mm 'pins' from steel wire. Hammer them finished the holes in the top half and bottom half of the box, creating a hinge. File the ends of the pins flat and hammer them flush with the forest using the head of a dome-headed smack to save the veneering from hammer marks.

9:10 Glue the mirror into the inside of the box lid. Keep a damp cloth handy to wipe stray glue off the mirror.

9:14 Mask the edges of the box pedestal to protect them from lacquer, and hang the box from a wire. Knack the box up a well ventilated space.

9:27 Lacquer! Survey the directions connected your can of lacquer, but I find that 3 coats of car body lacquer works fountainhead.

9:37 Erst the lacquer has dried (usually takes at the least 24 hours) fix the makeup pulverization container within the MDF corner. Equivocal sided tape is good, but hot glue testament besides do the trick. To save infinite, I prised out the inner atomic number 13 tray holding the powder, and only taped that in. But this box will hold makeup containers adequate to near 10mm deep. The loge wish besides hold a makeup applicator sponge, etc.

That's it! Hope person finds this useful. If you make one of these, let ME know!

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