MidThunder

I've made several of these 12 x 6 display tiles for different orders. I always make several to test colors on. With BS on his way here for C2E2, I decided to give away my extras at The Pile Bookstore (about 30 minutes away from the con). If you want one, bring your badge to the bookstore and they will let you have one. NOTE: I'm not affiliated with this bookstore and do not own or sell any of the iconic art that I use in my free crafts.

Gave it a shot and it did pretty well, I think.

I made a couple blue and gray windrunners tiles and a gold Bondsmith that worked. Check them out. Let me know what you think of the lighter colors. Part of me just likes the gray better, but I'm going to try to make a set in the color for each order. Going to drop off an extra blue windrunners one at the Pile Bookstore if someone wants it.

I make some pretty nice tile art with a laser cutter for home art projects. See my gallery here: I made two of the Bondsmiths tiles in the main thumbnail above. The second one didn't photograph well but it is a dark version with the outline and letters in gold. If you want it go to the PILE bookstore at Harlem and Roosevelt in Oak Park (or Berwyn?). Tell the store owner, Rebecca, "Journey Before Destination" and she will give it to you. They have good coffee!

I made two new tiles for my display case The radiant one took a little over an hour, the Bondsmiths one was much faster to laser cut. Silver and gold pigment on the green one. Bondsmiths is just graphite powder.

I like the motion in the Kal with stormlight. Was it an art class, or were you not paying attention?

I'm actually very excited about this idea. I'm going to make ones with a slot where I can slide a tile in and out. then I can have custom bookends that I can switch out whenever I want.

I haven't tried it, but there are files for that on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1590572483/3d-book-end-bundle-lasercut-bookend?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=laser+book+end&ref=sr_gallery-1-2&pro=1&dd=1&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1

It's pretty easy to push it around with a plastic paint scraper and the surface under the outer layer is rough and holds the pigment well. I just pour a little over the engraved area and smear it around and scraped it off. Running the scraper over the top will leave a nice even layer. Then I dabbed at it a bit with a microfiber cloth to get the tough spots in the center.

I used the SVG file https://coppermind.net/wiki/File:Cosmere_symbol.svg with the library's laser cutter to etch this tile. Applied a powdered pigment to get the gold and silver colors.

It was my first one so there was some learning curve involved on creating a graphic file for a lase cutter. But on my second try it was about 37 minutes to print. Than I rubbed it with charcoal, sprayed it. Applied gold pigment, sprayed it. Rubbed on more charcoal, sprayed it. So not that much time really, assuming I get the second one right on the first try. Most libraries have these things and classes where they make cutting boards and stuff.

I made this sign with a laser cutter at my library. I used gold pigment and charcoal to get the coloring. Pictured with my new 1st/1st or WoR.