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![]() In case the fit is too loose just add a drop of wood glue. If your kerf settings were right the parts can be press-fitted and will hold together without any glue. Just connect the four wooden parts for each vase and then insert the test tube. Assembling the Test Tube VasesĪssembly is pretty easy. ![]() Oiling also adds some protection to the wood so that an accidentally spilled drop of water won’t leave a permanent mark. This will bring out the grain a bit and gives the vases a matte shine. The finish is entirely up to you! I personally like natural finishes and choose to use boiled linseed oil. I did not sand the laser cut edges because I liked the contrast of the light and dark wood. I started with a 100 grit sandpaper and moved up to 180 grit. With the cutting done, grab your preferred sanding tool and smooth the surface of your wood. When cutting manually, I recommend to print out the design template and then spray mount it onto the wood to have a guide for cutting. I used the laser cutter at my local makerspace to cut all the wooden parts. Use them, customize them or make your own shapes! #Send inkscape files to silhouette connect download#The last step was to duplicate and mirror this path.īelow you can download the 7 different silhouette vase designs I created. By selecting all three elements and using the “Union” command, I merged them into one path. One tenon rectangle gets attached to the top of the side part and one to the bottom. Again 3 mm because of the plywood and as this time we are not cutting a hole but a tab, the 0.2 mm for the kerf correction are added. So ideally the final parts will hold together by press fit without any glue.Īfterward, I draw two squares which will form the tenon. I knew from past cutting tests on the laser I use, that a kerf setting of 0.2 mm will produce a tight fit. Why did I make them 2.8 mm? Because the plywood I use is 3 mm thick and the 0.2 mm are to compensate the cutting kerf (the material that gets removed during cutting). Drawing the mortise and tenon jointsįirst I draw two 2.8 mm squares for the holes in the top and bottom part. Once I was happy with the shape I set the stroke width to 7 mm and then used the “Stroke to Path” command to turn the outline into a path. You can play around with different shapes here. Next, I added additional path nodes and curves to get a bottle silhouette. The distance between the two should be at least the length of your test tube.įor the side parts, my process was to first just draw a single line going from the outside edge of the top circle to the outside edge of the bottom circle. #Send inkscape files to silhouette connect plus#I decided to make the silhouette 7 mm wide and so the diameter of the outer circle is the inner circle plus 14 mm.įor the bottom, I used a bigger circular shape and positioned it below the top part. The inner circle should have the same diameter as the outside of your test tubes. My test tubes have an outside diameter of 16 mm (0.6 in) and are 150 mm (5.9 in) long.Īll the design work was done in Inkscape – an open source vector drawing software. The first step before drawing the design is to measure the outside diameter of your test tube and its length. If you don’t use a laser machine for the cutting you could make the design easier to cut by omitting the cutouts and tabs and just glue the parts together. In the top and bottom part, there will be two rectangular cutouts and on both ends of the side parts, there are the corresponding tenons. The mortise and tenon joint functions by inserting one end of a piece of wood into a hole in another piece of wood.
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