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One of my colleagues organized a little bike competition to collect funds to benefits a health organization. I proposed to design and produce souvenir awards for contestants. I needed to produced 8 of them so I got some acrylic (Black, Transparent and Green) and also ordered some anodized aluminum to display date, category, names.
\nI wanted to experiment with the following:
\n- Engraving (done in the back of the transparent acrylic and simply turned over).
\n- Parts fittings (yes, this required using kerf and making sure things fit but still hold)
\n- Some assembling and gluing acrylic together. Successful but not easy, especially with transparent acrylic so as to avoid marks.
\n- Precision cutting acrylics at various depth (finding right speed and power)
\n- Engraving Anodized Aluminium

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For the design, I used Illustrator to recreate the shield for which I used a font that is the one traditionally used for road signs. I also found an SVG for the little bicycle that I had to “fatten” up a bit so that the engraving would work great.

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Challenges I went through:
\n- I did not have too much of the dark acrylic so I had really to fit things on the glowforge and the camera was a bit off from the reality. I think the positioning of parts when looking at the picture on screen could be better. Next time, I tried to leave more margins for error.
\n- Gluing the acrylic together was a bit difficult). I think that I would have rather use a cut (play with kerf) that would have been tighter so as to use only the slightest glue possible,
\n- I did not have any appropriate tool to cut the anodized aluminum. Although results were OK using an x-acto knife with several passes and then bending the aluminum till it broke, I wish I would find a better way.

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The engraving of the transparent acrylic took the most time at 1hour and 40 min. Cutting was easy and super precise. Once I found the right parameters for the Aluminum, I achieved the detailed effect I really wanted.

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Let me know if you have questions or better: Feedback!

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Size 2.5 x 3 in

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