Making Jewellery At the Vancouver Hack Space

The laser cutter at VHS is totally free for members to use, once they go through a quick training course, and is an amazing tool.

It’s unintimidating and easy-to-use, fast, and versatile. It can be used in so many different ways.

Here’s how to make a dinosaur-bone necklace in under a day, by someone with no prior experience in these techniques.

The original design is from here:

Those files are for 3D printers though, and we want to convert them to a laser cutter format. After mentioning that to some VHS members that were just hanging around, about three people started working on the problem and had it solved in a few minutes. Here are the laser cutter versions (right click->save as).

After about 10 minutes of playing with sizes (those files will print a huge necklace, you have to adjust to your taste), all of the pieces were printed, and it was time for the hard part:

Putting them on chain. This is a first-time attempt, and it seemed to work great!

Still took a couple hours:

Here it is on a tissue base for transportation and the best damn birthday gift ever!

Everyone should have a t-rex necklace to call their own.

Still intimidated? We have quick-and-easy woodcut art already prepared! Make your own, and take it home.