Engraved birthday calendar

Find out here, how you can turn a IKEA pin board "Väggis" and aluminum tags into a birthday calendar.

Preparation

Required material

IKEA pin board "Väggis"
1/4 sheet TroGlass Color Gloss green with double-sided adhesive tape
1 sheet of wood veneer birch, 600 x 300 mm
material to cover the working table
hot glue gun

Machine used

Speedy 360, 80 Watt
2" lens
Vacuum table
Acrylic cutting grid
Aluminum cutting grid table for the wood cuts

The birthday calendar can produced with any machine from the Speedy family.

Important

For the best results, use the acrylic cutting grid for TroGlass and the aluminum cutting grid for wood
Cover the rest of the engraving table to maximize the exhaust efficiency.

Birthday Calendar Cork

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Step by step

Step 1

Step 1: Graphic for cork engraving

Design your own birthday calendar or download our design template. Send it to the laser using the following parameters:

Print settings

Process mode	Resolution	Cut line
Standard	500 dpi	none

Halftone	Others
color	-

Step 2

Step 2: Engraving the pin board

Position the cork pin board on the vacuum table into your Trotec laser and use the settings as mentioned below.

Tip:

It can be possible that the pin board is not perfectly flat. Therefore, please check the focus on several positions of the pin board. In case of deviations use a average value for the focus.

Laser Parameters:

Color	Process	Power (%)	Speed (%)	ppi/Hz
black	engrave CO₂	22	70	500
red	engrave CO₂	50	70	500

Passes	Air Assist	Z-Offset	Advanced
1	on	-	High quality
1	on	-	High quality

Step 3

Step 3: TroGlass letters

As an eye catcher we combined two materials for the headline and applied it on the frame. First send the graphic "birthday calendar" to the laser using the following parameters.

Print settings

Process mode	Resolution	Cut line
Cut Job	1000 dpi	none

Halftone	Others
color	enhanced geometries, inner geometries first

Step 4

Step 4: Decoration

Put the acrylic cutting tabletop onto the vacuum table and cut the letters out of TroGlass with double-sided adhesive tape. After cutting, put a stripe of paper tape on the letters to keep them in position.

Tip:

We used the quality-optimized parameters for TroGlass from JobControl

Laser Parameters

Color	Process	Power (%)	Speed (%)	ppi/Hz
red	Cut CO₂	50	0,2	5000

Passes	Air Assist	Z-Offset	Advanced
1	on	-	-

Step 5

Step 5: Wood covering for letters

For a better visibility of the TroGlass letters, we glue it on a base plate from wood veneer. Therefore, send the second graphics to the laser using the following parameters:

Process mode	Resolution	Cut line
Cut Job	1000 dpi	none

Halftone	Others
color	enhanced geometries inner geometries first

Step 6

Step 6: Laser process wood baseplate

Now remove the vacuum table and insert the aluminum cutting grid table instead. Put the veneered wood into your Trotec laser, cut out the job and clean it with a damp cloth.

Laser Parameters

Color	Process	Power (%)	Speed (%)	ppi/Hz
red	Cut CO₂	100	0,8	1000

Passes	Air Assist	Z-Offset	Advanced
1	on	-	High quality

Step 7

Step 7: Assembly

With the last step, glue the green TroGlass letters onto the veneered birch. As a test, position the letters on the frame of the pin board and mark the left and right edges. Now glue the letters on the frame of the pin board. After a short drying period your pin board is ready.

Inspiration

To complete the calendar, use the aluminum tags from the Trotec product range. This offers you maximum flexibility in fulfilling your customers' needs.
To engrave multiple tags in one step, a template can be helpful. The instruction is available online: Creating templates
In addition you can add some engravings directly on the wooden frame of the pin board.

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Questions about applications or settings?
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