Just started a new project. I found a picture of an Art Deco gate that I like and have started to translate it to something I can cut out an build in the dragblade plotter.
Somehow I find the geometric design calming.
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love it! 
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Oooo! They are nice, been looking at US elevator doors, especially the Empire state and Chrysler building.
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True, true, I was at Publicis HQ in NY, and I was truly shocked – the whole building, dating back to the ‘gilded era’ was pure opulent art deco – restored to the original, and truly spectacular – from the floors, to the massive lamps and the elevators - truly incredible.
If you want the real art deco experience, in Warsaw the Rialto hotel is worth a visit (or a stay). Even the electric switches are original…
On the other end of the spectrum, (sorry @KiwiSteve ), I drove several hundred miles to see Napier, the "art deco town " in NZ. Let’s say it’s a very purist art deco, almost like an stylized “comic” influenced minimalistic american-style…it left me very cold…
I think the best I have seen was in Antwerp, not only was art deco everywhere it was not preserved museum quality for the tourist, it was living and breathing it is the day to day embodyment of a style.
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Antwerp is fabulous for art deco, there’s something new to discover around practically every corner.
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Especially in the Jewish quarter. I had a room close by during that way too short gig in Antwerp
I found a new local supplyer of metallic coated carton and after redoing the design I think it comes out quite good.
Its a fickle bitch to cut though.
Cutting and building the new design.
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my teenager times hobby was electronics, I was making tons of circuits (hand made boards, pained with the varnish, treated by UV, etc), also repairing these old radio and TV sets all around my neighborhood… but then my life changed to a “rich homeless” style so I moved to only beer, books, and computer games (sorts of anything which didn’t require possessing more than a travel suitcase), fast forward that’s still my life 
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To be honest with myself, I am still struggling with not being able to do that anymore.
Been doing "The thing: again.
I have never been really happy with this cutter, it has always been a little… off.
Straight line only straight-ish, curves and circles oval or not lining up and cutting the same file twice gave different results with huge gaps between pieces.
It got so bad that I almost gave up so I took the damn thing to bits.
And found a loose toolholder, tightned everything up and lo and behold, a new machine.
Oh yuk!
Time to screw.
I repair printers and scanners and platemakers. So I think I can handle a cutter.
There ya go.
Thats what I want to see.
Aaaand done.
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Where is the vernissage and auction?
actually, I would like to have some exactly like those, made on the style, for the door leading to my room, which today has an ugly '70s yellow ‘bisele’ glass pattern…
I offer a weekend all-expenses paid long weekend in Prague against a couple of them… 
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I wish I could do them in glass, I’m looking into laser systems at the moment.
So may take you up on that.
oh, I thought they were glass. What are they made of?
I didn’t think lasers could cut glass, but instead needed waterjet systems.
Maybe you could do in acrylic?
300g cardstock coated with metallic and holographic foils.
There are lasersystems that cut glass by using pico pulsed CO2 lasers to stop the glass shattering with the thermal stress.
They are very expensive bits of kit.
Acrylics, that maybe an idea.
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Oh. Wow. I’d never heard of this. I just saw a video on YT which uses the pulsed laser to cut and then a 2nd pass with CO2 laser to separate:
I would wear that.
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