 We just got a glow forge and we'll show you why right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do it before we make it? Great. That's what we do on this channel every week. If you've been following us for a while, you know Garrett has wanted a laser for a long time. A big laser. A big laser. For a very long time. He started with his starter laser a few videos ago, which was great, but it wasn't very safe and it wasn't very powerful. And no, but thanks to you guys and all of your comments and your votes and sending her your projects that you've done with the glow forge. We were able to convince Kim of the value of a glow forge. We did some research. You guys are very helpful. Everybody that commented on our cheap laser video, very helpful. A lot of people reached out to us, gave us a lot of information. Yeah, very nice. And we did some research on our own and made our decision. We got a glow forge this week. We're making our first project with the glow forge. Then we're going to tell you why we bought it and our thoughts after our first project. So we did the unboxing project where you made this cool little key chain. Very cute little guy. It did some scoring. Looks like it did some engraving. Did a cut, but we did nothing. We just opened the file, hit cut, press this fancy little button, the magic button. Press the magic button. It says it's a magic button. We did the test project. So now we're taking it to prod. We're going to do a full blown project project. First time out of the box of getting it dirty. It came with a lot of materials, like a lot of materials, all types of different types of materials. Yeah. So this is what is this? Walnut and leather acrylic. Acrylic. And I think the rest of these are acrylic and then this hardboard. Some kind of real, real wood. And a lot of hardwood plywood. That's plywood plywood. And a lot of this draft board is like four sheets of this draft board. But it looks expensive on the website. So we decided to make our first cut out of cardboard. So we're going to do a mock up out of cardboard just to make sure I got the sizing right. And we all have a bunch of leftover Amazon boxes. So we have plenty of material, test materials. Yeah, plenty of test materials. Step one, we're going to lay out a design in the Glowforge web app. It's pretty easy. It's a lot like the Cricut. Yep, it's just like design space or very similar to design space. You could make your own image right in the web app, but you can only cut, score and engrave. Test cut looks awesome. I look at the detail on the cardboard. You can see each little leaf. Oh, that's cool. So everything seems to line up. Looks a little small on the board, though. A little small on the board. I think we're going to need something up here. Yeah, it's going to need to say welcome or something up here. Otherwise, I think it looks good. What do you guys think? It's just a mock up. Just a mock up. Looks pretty good, huh? All those layers of cardboard painted, call it done. Now we're going to make the magic happen. I think that's actually what the button says. I think so. We're going to use this medium draft board and it comes with the QR code because it's proof grade materials. It comes with the QR code that lets the laser know exactly what you're putting under there and it's got this great mask to it. So when you're done burning it, you can just peel the mask right off. Crisp, clean lines every time. I think this is only our first time detail. I know it looks rough right now, but it's got that masking tape on it still. So we're going to pull that masking tape off. See what we got. This piece right here, it didn't an engrave a score where the tail lights will be so I know where to paint it. And then a cut and then I didn't have to move anything. I just hit make the magic step three. Now we're going to paint and stain and stain. We're going to stain our round and paint our pieces. Paint all of our little pieces. Good thing they're scored so we know exactly where the flower ends. I like that. That's what Garrett's most excited about. I hope I can stay in the lines. I hope I can stay in the lines. We're going to use these cute little chalk paints by Chalked Up Paint. And let's do it. Now we're going to assemble it. We're going to use some E6000. We found the tiniest tube we could have a big one, but I thought it would be messy. So I got the little one. And we're going to glue all of our layers down. It looks like summer. Boom. Oh, it's still slippy. It's slimy. It's still going to take forever to dry. I'm telling you. Projects done, though. It doesn't slide off the board. We'll show you some final shots once it's dry. Now I'll tell you why we got the Glow Forge. We have limited space in our craft room, so it needed to be a desktop size. We also wanted a really large engraving cutting area with a laser powerful enough to like cut through quarter inch MDF or whatever we figure out. Yeah, that's mostly what I think we'll use. So we think this will do it. It goes through one eighth inch like a butter. And then a big one for us was ease of use. We didn't want to have to learn a whole new tool. So this comes with the camera so you can see exactly where you're placing your design. It has autofocus. It allows for the 3D cut. It automatically identifies your proof grade materials from Glow Forge, having all those features are great. I don't have to do any of it. I don't have to learn how to focus a laser. It uses a web app. So the design interface is right on the web, which is like the cricket used to be. But it's really simple to use. It really just a couple of lines, cut, score and grave. You can see your image right on the actual material so you know exactly where it's going to be placed on the material. And I just had to click a couple of buttons and it was ready to go. And big one for us was file formats. We wanted the regular file formats, JPEG, PNG, PDF. And a big one for us was SVGs. We have a thousand of them. So this was great. It accepts them. No problem. Comes in in the layers just like it would on the cricket. We also didn't want to be tethered to it. Again, we don't have a lot of room in our craft room. So we don't want to have to go over there with a laptop and and try to balance a laptop to connect to it. So this has Wi-Fi. We can connect to it anywhere in the house. You just got to walk all the way to it and press the button to go when you're ready to go. Kind of like the cricket with the C. Yeah, it is. It has all the safety features. Unlock the starter laser. It has the UV lid. It has what the trip mechanism. So if you open the door, the project stops cutting. It's got the great ventilation. I mean, this thing is. Yes, yes. Which actually makes it kind of loud, too. It really boosts that smoke out the window. But it's like a vacuum. It sounds like there's a Dyson going in your room. Yeah, it's not too bad, though. It's not too bad. Like a vacuum? It is like a vacuum. So a little loud, but workable. I think you can work in the room. Finally, the price. Yeah, we looked at a couple of other desktop lasers. The prices were in the similar range, a little more pricey when they came with the camera. But, you know, we found a five hundred dollar off coupon. Yeah. So that was really what tripped us over the edge. It was the camera being able to align it. The safety features and that five hundred dollar coupon. Speaking of five hundred dollar coupon, we're going to leave that same link down below. So if you guys go off and get your own glow forge, you can save a little bit of money using our coupon down below. It's like a hundred bucks on the base, two fifty on the plus and five hundred on the pro. So I mean, that's what got me. So we really got it so that we could take this hobby to the next level. I'm hoping that we can start offering with the use of this product or this tool, we can start offering kits in our store. I would love to put together some of these things that we do, just like this welcome sign. Yes, there it is. Offer these pieces in a kit and all you have to do is paint and assemble. That's where the scoremarks really come in great. Like, I don't even have to know how to paint a flower. Yes, paint inside the lines. I did want to add that. So I'm not the best painter, but those scoremarks allowed you to paint like paint by number. I was able to paint around and it was it's perfect painting. Yeah, it's paint by number is exactly what it is, except without the numbers, you kind of wing it on the paint colors. So if you like this video, go ahead and let me know if you're going to get a glow forge, go ahead and let me know. And if you've already made something with a laser, go ahead and show me I'd really like to know. And if you're not yet subscribed, hit that subscribe button. Take that bell because we do this every week. And you're probably still locked inside. So you've got no choice but to maybe watch this video or this video, you've got no choice. I'll make them good, but you've got no choice.