Love that skull! I’m guessing you used a two-tone acrylic sheet? If so, I’d love to hear any recommendations on where to buy from. I’m looking to make a backlit black & white sign and this looks like it would work perfectly.
The acrylic comes with a protective paper backing. Tarkin has a profile to rasterize/etch acrylic with a paper backing. I used that acrylic profile to rasterize the heart and the skull.
The raster process burns away the paper where the laser goes but leaves the rest intact. I then used that intact paper as a mask for some black spray paint.
When I used the CNC to draw the shapes for the skin I dotted some registration marks. I then used lightburn’s print+cut to laser cut the circles out of the cardboard for the light holes. This saved a lot of time but meant I needed to cut the 8’ sheet in half.
Got it! That’s a much more straightforward technique than what I was planning… You probably saved me hours of trying to dial in a jigsaw puzzle of black and white acrylic pieces
This all turned out so cool @Iammikecohen, thanks for sharing!
I do this sort of thing a lot with painting acrylic as well. The masking paper on the acrylic becomes super useful and the texture from rastering makes the paint stick nicely.
@Iammikecohen referred to a profile on Tarkin that’s used for rastering – does anyone know the name of the profile? I’d like to play with it in the coming days.
