What makes a good stencil material?
Over the last couple of months various orders have come in requesting stencils. I thought I’d put this to the test and try a few of different materials to see …
Latest from the workshop!
No vector program, no problem!
Many customers come to us with queries and designs but no means to create their artwork in the vector format we require for the laser cutter to plot it’s route …
A Bit of Bling!
Its nice to come into work looking a million pounds, so to cheer up everyone in the Nice-Cuts office during this blustery gloomy springtime I decided to have a go at …
Working With Wood
This week we were asked if we could laser-engrave onto some beautiful circular wooden slices. We said we’d give it ago! The disks arrived in the post, sent to me …
An Alpine Christmas Gift – Packaging Process.
My Merry Christmas scene is complete! Read about how I designed this MDF free standing ornament in my previous blog post ‘A Free Standing Christmas Gift’. However now I need …
An Alpine Christmas Gift!
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about a particularly bespoke wedding gift order for a Harry Potter loving client (read about it here). Zoë went on to develop her miniature …
Christmas make off round two – wreaths.
Following on from the plywood and acrylic mistletoe of last week, I wanted to make something else Christmassy in a similar style. So next up… Wreaths! I played around with a …
Mistletoe! Christmas make-off 2017
Every year, coming up to Christmas time, I take part in a ‘make off’ with some of my other laser cutting friends. It’s not really a competition, it’s just for …
Harry Potter? Let’s make it stand up!
This week an interesting query came in. ‘Can you design me something special for a Harry Potter themed wedding – that stands up?’ Hmm… It’s an unusual one but over …
Puzzling puzzles! …and preparing artwork for cutting.
Earlier this year we were asked to help design something simple for a customer that was hosting a treasure hunt. The idea was that participants of the treasure hunt, around 120 …
Mini Maker Window Workshop
The leaves are falling and it’s ‘Back to School’ time yet again. Over the summer however, the Nice-Cuts team had a bit of fun dreaming up some fun activities for these …
Beautiful Bears! For those without the means to create vector artwork.
From time to time we’re asked to prototype and laser cut work for people that don’t have access to a vector design program at all. Here at Nice-Cuts we use …
This Book Belongs To…
We’ve had a couple of requests for rubber stamps recently, and having been inspired by a lino printing exhibition I decided to have a think about how best to go …
No-Water Houseplants!
It seems as if summer is coming to a close, and as sad as this is, I am feeling relieved that I no longer seem to be a slave to the …
Postage Problems!
One of our regular customers, Oh My Dear Julia, creates beautiful bespoke wedding invitations and favours. She actually wrote a guest blog for us back in March (read it here!) …
Engraving convert!
Recently we’ve had a few orders coming in for engraved pieces. While this is something I’ve always thought was nice, I tended to think the expense of choosing to Engrave …
Amaziograph… The most addictive game
Recently I’ve been playing around with a fantastic app I found on IOS called Amaziograph. I was recommended to it by a friend back in December when I was having fun …
Guest Blogger! Stephen Emmerson’s Poetry Wholes
A couple of months ago we had an interesting project pop up in the Nice-Cuts inbox! We didn’t really understand Stephen’s Poetry Wholes, though we certainly had great fun in the …
Laser Cut Bunting!
Whilst beavering away with my projects for Newcastle’s Maker Faire UK 2017, I turned my attention towards how best to decorate our stall! This year I joined the Oomlout team and we certainly wanted to …
Laser Cut Your Way Into The Christmas Display… Packaging
A few weeks a go I talked about prototyping for my laser cut Christmas baubles. I started working on them back in November so they would be ready to send out …
Guest Blogger! Oh My Dear Julia
I had been running a business selling wedding stationary for a couple of year now and doing relatively well, but for various reasons, not the least my technician moving to …
Maker Faire UK – Pimp my badge!
This March we were again set the task of creating the badges for Maker Faire UK 2017 – this is our fourth year on badge duty, so we’re keen to celebrate with …
Need some new glasses?
This week I’ve been having some fun. I’m preparing fun things to take to this years Maker Faire UK with my friends from Oomlout, who’s stall I will be helping with. This is …
Laser Your Way Into The Christmas Display… Prototyping
So a few months ago, the leaves were falling, it was beginning to get very nippy in the workshop, and I was busy thinking up a master plan for how …
Run out of ‘Cs’?? – Just cut another one!!
This week I wanted to have a go at making an old fashioned marquee board sign – you know, the kind they have outside old cinemas – to let people know if …
Laser Cut Art Glass Designs
What have we been working on lately?! Recently we were asked to help prototype some window panels for Glass Artist Zoë Eady of The Glass Garden, a stained glass studio based at Sunny …
New Year New Website!!
So it may be cold outside, but we’ve been beavering away in the Nice-Cuts workshop, cooking up a beautiful new website for 2017. We are super excited to hear from …