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[Laser cut and engrave] Wooden tooth bank with cute mouse decoration — Project made with D1 machine for Laser cut and engrave.

perez mouse tooth bank

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Application scenario

Laser processing

Machine & module

xTool D1

Material used

1/8"(3mm) Basswood Plywood

1778

Information

      a bank where the little ones in the house can deposit their baby teeth and receive a reward from the mouse

Instruction

Step1: generating image and editing

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We use an AI application to generate our image, usually the images are not perfect so we must clean it and adapt it for the use we will give it.
We apply contrast and exposure filters, eliminate the background and excess anatomical pieces.

Step2: base and upper piece of box

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To create the base of the project we make a large horizontal rectangle
Inside a rectangle we create a smaller and perfectly square one (red color)
On each face of that red square we are going to place two small rectangles, making sure that they are centered and that their thickness corresponds to that of our wood, in this case 3mm
We can now eliminate the red square seen in the image, since this was only a guide and we are going to duplicate the rectangles that we placed inside. since they will serve as a fit for the parts of the box at the base and also to shape the upper piece of the box simply creating two squares but this time in the internal angle as can be seen in the image: green rectangles (unwelded pieces)
blue rectangle: (unified top piece)

Step3: side pieces

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For the rest of the pieces we will differentiate two types, since they must fit together so they cannot be identical, the front and back are slightly larger than the sides and in compensation for that distance the sides will have a protruding tab, while the front and back will have a cavity guaranteeing that they fit together, all these fits and tabs will have the same dimension of the small rectangles that we created in the previous step (see blue rectangle)
Once the structure is created, we can add the designs we want to each face to personalize the design

Step4: cutting and engraving

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Once cut and engraved, all the pieces should fit together, but if they are slightly loose, use glue. The only pieces that are necessarily glued are the two squares with smooth edges, the small one is glued on the inside of the large one, right in the center since it serves the function of adjusting the lid

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