You sir are a true artist. People think laser art is easy, but they don’t see the time and effort it takes to draw/design the piece before cutting. Thank you for sharing your talent and beautiful artwork with us!
this is amazing!!! You should make a video of your workflow making the art on your drawing tablet! I want to make multilayer artwork like this, but im not the best artist thats for sure, and especially doing something like this, multilayer stuff, I cant even wrap my head around making the art together and that and making it look good, this is truly amazing good job!!
@@Philip-Roberts your not bad at making videos at all!! Your great at it, especially for a start, when I was watching I thought u would have had lots of videos w like a million subs, your not bad at all!! Keep going!!!
Wow! I am only attempting my first multi-layered mandala with someone else's design and it's still challenging. It is mind-boggling to imagine designing these intricate works of art yourself! You, sir, are a master artist!!
Just browsed your shop and surprise at how reasonable you're pricing is especially for the amount of time and effort that goes into creating something as spectacularly Marvelous as your works 👍😍🤩
Haha, I often think the same! Actually, I do need to raise the prices a bit given the current pricing of plywood and lack of supply. Glad you like the work.
If I won the lottery I would buy one of each and every piece in your store - they are all so beautiful! I only own a Blue Zephyr today, but someday soon I hope to buy one or two of the larger pieces.
Was fortunate enough to grab a few coasters a few years ago at your ACC show in Baltimore and they are a thing of beauty on my coffee table!! Love your work!!
Nice! Yeah, we almost burned down the studio making those. Whoops. They were pretty popular so it was a bummer when we stopped making them. Did you find this video through the American Craft Council Mag?
Just stunning! I have recently bought my first laser and I am drooling over your work. It would be awesome if you could design some simpler layered products and sell the files for us mortals that could never do what you do.
I'm glad to hear you enjoy the work. At the current moment I do not sell my vector files. However, it has crossed my mind to do so. Maybe you can help make this happen. How much would you be looking to spend on vectors files. How many layers, size, style, etc. Are there examples out there that you enjoy? Thanks for the help. Phil.
look on google, the are sites and many vectors to sell, prices from 5-20 $ ,vectors of mandala and many many other stuffs. I will buy some too, but also i've found a graphic designer,who will make designs for me, elaborated ones, not like those found here and there(many wont sell the files, cause then you will make competition,better plywood materials,better prices,specially if you work as hobby, not as money maker and so on,Others ask for cuts on every sale you make, or to pay some kind of percent,licence )... So, search for free files,exists. or with small amount of $ ,and read terms of use, some sell them without futher demands... i'm just start to buy all neccesary for this kind of work, ill do it as hobby,i found some very good plywood providers, many types, not only poplar,oak or birch. So good luck. So your researches, in 3 weeks i discovered a lot of "secrets",wich not every artist will share(some of them dont want competition :) , get it ? )...
Beautiful artwork and execution. I was looking for inspiration for a future project involving layers of wood and this came up. I've got a cnc router which I was considering using but those laser cuts are so crisp.
Just came across your channel and I am speechless. Beautiful work and detail. I am an artist myself and was wondering if you could possibly make a video on the design process itself? In terms of the software and how you would even go about wrapping your head around the stacking and layers. Keep up the great work!
This is something I'd love to do in the future. However, it is super slow and boring. The trick is to simply create 12 or so layers in your program and design on all 12 as you create the work.
@@Philip-Roberts I kind of get it I saw it in the video a little bit. One more question for you how do you deal with the air assist lifting pieces off the honeycomb? Do you turn it off when you're cutting?
@@soorenaaslani7491 Sorry to step in here, there are a few ways to handle this. Firstly air assist should be used at different PSI for different tasks. For example 20PSI or so should be used for cutting while 3-4 PSI used for engraving. If you are doing really small designs you may have to worry about the design moving around but for larger stuff like he does, the weight of it is likely not so as much of a problem. Lastly you can use work piece clamps to hold your material down and order your cuts so that the final outside piece is cut last. so work withing the confines of your material and make the outside cut your last cut so the laser isn't moving the piece around when its going back and fourth to cut out the details in the middle. Hope that makes since.
really amazing I start with 3d and laser cut now. I want to mix my native Indians sfrom Puerto Rico symbols to make some multilayer artwork , thanks bro
Glad you enjoy the work. It would be fun to create more. I'm finding that the process takes so much time that making videos is difficult. Might have to figure it out.
Amigo, felicitaciones por su talento y trabajo tan profesional, soy nuevo en el corte láser y eres un referente para seguír espero lograr una calidad como la suya éxitos con su talento 👌
I see you paint it all with your hands, all the details. Now there's artificial intelligence, do you know any AIs that can draw laser cut pictures like this?
how do you cut these things when they are larger then your cutting bed? you just got to try hide the seems really well or what? you got some massive custom co2 cutter? xD
I just use illustrator as that was the program that I knew best prior to using laser cutters. However, any vector program will work well with Laser cutters and a bunch of them are even free.
Depends on the piece but the first piece you see in the Video: This is sold to me as 3 layer mahogany but I’m not sure I believe them. I think it is some sort of asian species look alike. We have learned to work around the problems with it now and we’re happy with how it finishes up (now that we figured out its personality).
@@Philip-Roberts you're welcome sir , you deserve all the best for your stuning art , i was making a little search in youtube to how make this kind of mandalas but most of the videos doesn't help , so could you please tell me what's the software are using to make this mandalas and are there any possibility to sell this file
@@cats1928 Gotcha, no worries. I do not sell my vectors as I create the artwork 100% from start to finish. There are tons of vectors for sale out there. However, I might recommend you try to make them yourself.
@@Philip-Roberts to be honest i have made a lot of them but i loved yours you're a real artist , and am just an architect who fall in love with his laser cutter anyway thanks a lot for your help my best regards sir
Thanks. I just use illustrator as that was the program that I knew best prior to using laser cutters. However, any vector program will work well with Laser cutters and a bunch of them are even free.
Hi Philip, love your work. Have q about staining. At 2:12 I see the blue staining process. I'm curious how you prevent the charred edges from being stained too. It seems in the vid that you don't. But when using this method you would have to stain all sides or clean up the sides that are coloured to get an overall even result. Are the edges stained afterwards too. That would imply lots of extra work (assuming a detailed piece). Any advice on how you I would go about this?
@@Philip-Roberts Thanks for your reply. Yeah, that is what I thought but that is not what is happening in the vid. If you pause the vid at 2:14 you can clearly see sides are stained quite a bit too. That's why I asked. 😉
@@Philip-Roberts Last q about this: any particular reason why you don't stain before cutting (apart from maybe waisting paint that's on the binned pieces)?
