 We just made this bottle top Plinko, you think I'd be able to do it? Oh, shots. Using nothing but light burn and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week, we're not playing any games, but we're making a game. We're going to make a great game that will sell great and it's got a great profit margin. It's a great game that can be used for our Father's Day gift, birthday gift, graduation gift. It's a perfect gift for any beer lover. Yeah. We'll show you how to use the website maker case and light burn to make this great bottle cap game. It's beer Plinko and we're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed some quarter inch MDF. I wanted this thing to be sturdy enough where I could actually pop a top. I needed some clear acrylic. I wanted to be able to see my bottle cap tumble and fall and I needed some eighth inch birch just to finish off that frame on the outside so I can't see the glue through the clear acrylic. And then we'll need some stain. We're going to use a light stain and a dark stain to give this some dimension. We're going to need our star bond thick glue and of course, a little bottle cap opener to attach to the front of it. That is it. Let's get to we're going to make all of our cuts, but first we have to stop by the website makercase.com. Help us cheat a little bit. Makercase.com is a great place to come to start with a box. We're going to use a basic box. Let's make sure we're using our units as inches. And then I'm going to want to start with an inside dimensions of this box. So I'm going to select inside. My inside is going to be 8.5 inches wide. My height is going to be 18 inches. And in my depth, I just want it 1.5 inches. So there's my box, but I'm going to use one quarter inch MDF or 0.36. I want it to be a closed box and I want finger joints. So this thing will be kind of sturdy. And then the basic finger joint width is 0.73. I can move this box around and check it out before I download it. I just click and drag it around, get a good 3D view of this thing, top bottom sides looks good to me. We're going to download this box. I don't actually need these labels on the box. So I'm going to disable the labels and then I'm going to download this as an SVG. I might burn. We're going to import our box that we just made, an SVG. Now we don't need a top to this thing. Let's ungroup this thing first. We don't need a real top to this thing. I'm not going to top it. That's where the bottle opener is going to go. So we're going to zoom in a little bit. And while this piece is selected, I'm going to go over here to my nodes. I can edit my nodes. Now if I hover over it, it'll tell me what all of my little shortcut keys will do as I'm hovering over that piece. So I'm going to delete some nodes. So I'm going to use D. I'm going to come over here and just start hovering and deleting some nodes. I'm going to delete all of the nodes that create the top piece and do the same for this piece. I'm going to click on it and I'm going to hover D. Let's do the same to the other side as well. Let's go down to the other top piece. We'll select it. Select our nodes. D. D. D. I'm not going to mess with this piece. I might just make a copy of the top piece and make it my back piece. All right. So let's use my select tool again to the back. Now we're going to make some little peg holes. So this thing will actually like fall down like Plinko. I'm going to make a little box, a little tiny box, zoom in a little bit more. I want this box to be 2.36. Actually I'm going to make this box .246. Since it said my MDF was .36, .236, I'm going to make mine just slightly bigger so I can get the pegs in and out a little bit. Remember the box said my MDF was .236. So I'm going to go ahead and make my box slightly bigger, my little peg hole. And I'm going to make that 2.46. I'm going to zoom in and then turn it on its side 45s. I'm going to hold shift and click it up. I guess it's on 90. Let's make this green so I can see it or blue so I can see it. There you go. All right. Now we're going to use the repeat tool to create the little grid. Little four across, four, seven up. That's a lot. All right. Now we're going to go down here and we're going to shift this row by half. So it kind of offset everything we have. So it's two inches or two and a quarter inches in between them here. And I have an inch and a quarter between them this way and say, OK, I'm going to draw a circle. This is going to be our fake coin for a minute. I will make this 1.2. Oops, control Z. I'm going to drag my circle. Let's make sure I'll go through. Yeah, it goes through. There you go. Yeah, look at that. It'll shrink all the way down. Cool. All right, we have some outliers. Let's get rid of these guys and select them all holding shift, delete. I'm going to start at the bottom left, but I'm going to start at the bottom right and select everything going up into the left. That way, anything that I touch, it selects. Control G to group them. All right, I have those. Now let's make the little pegs that go in the holes. So I'm going to draw a box and my box is going to be make this box. I'm going to take off the aspect ratio so I'm able to actually manipulate the numbers to this box. I'm going to make my my peg 1.74 wide going to make it 0.236. Let's move this down here. I'm going to use my repeat tool again. Maybe it's 3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 21, 25, 25 pegs. I'm just going to come up here and do control Z. Let's try again. Go back in. Let's say I want 25 pegs. Got my pegs, got my holes, and I have a flat top on this thing. Now let's make the divider. At the bottom, we'll get this out of the way for now. And we'll use this as our bottom. Bring it up here. Use this as our dividers. Let's zoom in again. I'm going to use this piece as my little dividers that go so that my bottle cap will drop into a little cubby or a little slot. I'm going to use this as my dividers. So to do that, let's draw a box over top of it. I'm going to select this bottom piece. And I'm going to select the box I just made. And we'll go a minus front. There we go. This is my little tab. Now I'm going to go back into the nodes. And we're going to remove some nodes. And so we'll hover. And I'll tap B, D, D. Let's take off the top. B, move this node down here. So I'm going to hold Shift. And it should lock in the place when it's directly horizontal and vertical. So you kind of snap, holding Shift, snap it. There you go. I got one divider. So let's put this divider down here. Control C, Control V to make a copy. We'll make another copy. And I'm going to use this copy to know where my little slots will go. So to make my slots, I'm going to draw another box. And with this box, I'm going to make a little bit wider than I know the tabs are going to be. So the width is going to be 0.246. And then the height is going to be where we know that our tabs were 0.73 coming out of the box maker. So I'm going to go 0.74. There's our little box. I'm going to make a few of these. Five of them, because I'm going to need three dividers. So I'm going to use my repeat tool again. One, two, three, four, five. I'm going to drag this guy over here up against the edge. I should snap. I'm going to drag this guy over here up against this edge. Come on, snap. Zoom in a little bit. All right, let's get this guy away for a second. I'm going to select this box, this box, this guy, this guy, and this guy. Let's make sure they're aligned center. And now I'm going to distribute them horizontally on center. So this guy in the middle is on center. Now I don't need these guys anymore on the ends. I was using just using those to line them up to leave. Let's select these three and we'll group them. Now I need to know where to put these tabs. So that's why I got this guy. This is actually going to go into the bottom slot. This tab right here will actually slide into these tabs. So let's turn it on. It's 90. Line this with the bottom. Group those. G. And then I'll grab this piece and this piece. And then let's say a line bottom. Now I know these slots should line. Oh, man, that was pretty close. Whoops, that is even worse. But let's just move these down a smidge. I don't think I'm going to get any better than that. Oh, yeah, there we go. Look at that. I did get better than that. All right, sweet. So those are there now. Now my slots are there. So let's go ahead and select everything and we'll go control U to ungroup. I'm going to grab this group. I'm going to stay right over the middle. Control C, control V. Now I'm going to hold shift and drag them down to the center of this. Hold shift and drag them down. Now here's my divider over here again. We'll turn it back on. It's 90 and then move. I mean, that's pretty center. What if I just grab these and said one center. Yeah, that's pretty much center. All right, there's my tabs. There's my slots. There's my slots. Group these now. Go ahead and group all of this stuff again. Everything there is good to go. Let's go ahead and make all of these. Let's go ahead and make all of these our red lighter now. So everything there is going to get cut out. These can be red also. Red, it's all cut now. All right, let's go back to our front piece. Let's see, let's turn this green so we can see it. And we're going to line this up over top of this piece here. So let's grab the booth center. All right, now let me make a copy before I destroy it. I want to have a second version. All right, so this piece is going to be, let's make it blue. This blue piece here is going to be my acrylic. I made it blue because it's like see-through. So I'm going to make another box over top of this box. We'll come down. I just want the acrylic over the peg pieces so that the bottle cap doesn't come tumbling out. I'm going to copy paste. We'll put that one down at the bottom. Again, I just don't want the bottle caps to come tumbling out. All right, so I'm going to select this piece and then the top piece, and we'll say a minus top. And then we'll keep that piece like that and select the bottom piece. And we'll say minus top. I'll zoom in and get rid of some nodes. D, great. Grab my select tool again. Now this should be my Plexiglas piece. Now I want to frame for the top. I want to frame for the top of it so that I can hold in the acrylic and kind of cover up that glue. It's going to get hazy underneath the acrylic. It's just going to look bad. So I want to finish it off with a little frame at the top. Before I move this blue piece, I'm going to do this piece. That way I knew where this piece was. Let's start by doing this. I'm going to draw a box down the middle. This will be my frame of frame piece. I'll cover up the glass and the acrylic. Drag this down and give it a little lip so it will catch the bottle cap when it falls. Just a little tiny lip. Let's grab all of this stuff. We'll align the center. And then I'm going to select the green. Selecting the green layer. And then I'm going to select the blue layer too and minus front. I got a little frame. Now I'm going to need to make a second frame. It's just pieces so that it will kind of even out the acrylic. So right where the acrylic is. Let me draw a box where the acrylic is. We should snap through that box. Snap to the box. All right. I'm going to grab that green piece. And then that new box we just made. It's a little bit wider. Make sure we capture it. Now I'm going to select the green. And then the blue box. And minus front. Boom. Now I should have some frame pieces. So let's ungroup these, control U. Let's turn this sideways. So we'll cut them all out of the eighth inch birch. This is all out of eighth inch birch. This is going to be out of my acrylic. And then let's bring this piece over here. All right, let's see what we got now. Re-center. Control A to select everything. Let's drag it down. All right. Take this piece, turn it sideways. Oops. Turn it sideways. Put it up here. These little tabs. We've got these sideways. Put them up here. Put my coin over here. All right. Let's drag all this down. Now this is ready to cut. We are ready to go. So I can cut my acrylic piece. I can cut my Baltic birch pieces. And then these are all my MDF pieces. But I want to juge it up just a little bit. So I'm going to grab all these, slide these over. And I mean, I could be done. But I want to juge it up. Like this over in the middle. And I already have some, some juge. So I'm just going to go grab those real quick. An SVG. I'll drag it in. So I made a frame and a backer. All righty. So here's my backer. Here's my little frame that I'm going to put over it. Let's group all these. You know, just to give it a little spice. It's going to be hanging on the wall. I don't want it to look like it belongs on a desktop. All right. So I got to grab the piece I just put it. Let's get my coin out of the way. Get out of here. We'll grab both of these pieces and we'll center them. So they should be grouped. Zoom in and check it. All right. You got my corners looking good. Whoa, that was too zoomed. All right. Everything looks centered. All right. Let's move these away from this. All right. Let's go cut. Let's go get these things cut. And I'm going to cut on my 100 watt laser. And I am also going to cut on the polar laser. I think I'm going to do the acrylic and Baltic birch on the polar and everything else out of my 100 watt. Meet you at the laser. We're going to stain the backers and the sides. We're going to use two colors of stain because we have the backer that's engraved here. Feels really cool. We're going to use a light color stain because I really want the engraving to stand out and I don't want to hide it with a dark stain. However, for the box on the sides, it comes together like this. Let's see if I can show them quickly. And you can see the burnt edges here, every other one. And it looks a little like checkers. Once you put the whole thing together, you can see burnt edges on the top and bottom. So we're going to paint this or stain this one in a dark color stain to kind of make that visual distinction between each of the burnt and not burnt edges. We're going to do that dark so that all comes together and then we're going to do this light. So I think it's going to give it a cool finish because it's going to be two colors of stain. Be dimensional. I like that. I'm to assemble it. We're going to bring it all together with some of this star bond thick. It's like a gap filler. Should hold everything. All right, we're going to build from the bottom up. This lays down and then we're going to kind of build the box onto the backer, right? Yeah. So we have this plexiglass that I want to put just in the middle, but I want to continue a frame all around it without the frame looking all wonky. So I did cut out these little pieces that are like gap fillers, spacers that'll fit in so that my top frame continues to look nice and neat. So each of these little notches are a quarter inch and he's filling half of it with eighth inch acrylic and then the other half is going to have an eighth inch spacer so that when we lay the top frame on, it's all level. Oh wait, forgot to put the pegs in. I'm ready to go. Kim is going to. He's going to do whatever it's to $105 for about something this size. All in on materials for us was $11. It was like a one hour cut time, but a lot of that was engraving. So I think all in it was like 25, 26 bucks. And I think we could probably sell this for about 50 bucks. Yeah. I mean, I think it looks nice. It's a pretty good profit margin. What'd you say? What do you say? It's a good chunk of change. We've had a debate. This is a wall version. This is meant to hang on the wall. Oh, tiny sips. Oh, tiny sips. It only does tiny sips so that you don't have to get away too much. Yeah, I don't want to get too crazy too fast. So we've seen, so this is the wall version. We've seen a tabletop version. And actually Garrett and I have been debating this whole project as to whether we should do a wall version or a tabletop version. So you guys give me your vote. Well, I think if it's gonna be in a bar, it should be on the wall. But if you're just gonna give it as a gift, should it be a tabletop? I don't know. What do you think? A tabletop or a wall? I vote wall. She votes. I vote tabletop. All right, well, we've put this file in our store so you can download that at kngmakeit.com. But I think you can totally pull this off using Lightburn. I mean, you saw it wasn't that hard. Lightburn's got a ton of tools in there to help you with your design work. So I don't even think you need it. You could do it yourself. But if you can't do it yourself, we do have the file available in the store. We are about out of time. We have to go pop some bottles. You have to go make something. So we will see you next Friday where we'll do it, build it and make it again. And don't forget to join us on Tuesday where we do a little test cut Tuesday. We try out a new file, paint it, see if it goes together and first try. Like that balance.