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Wedding Coaster Jig/Fixture

Weddings are expensive. My fiance and I are extremely fortunate and grateful to have our families helping out with the cost of it, but even still the cost can be a strain.  The main reason it is so expensive is the number of guests... multiply most numbers by 200 and you get a larger number. My boss at home wants wedding favors. The problem with buying most favors is you either spend a lot of money on something nice/useful or cheap out and buy something lame for about 200 bucks. I wanted to make something useful, personal, and somewhat affordable.  Scoring points with the future wife is always good too. I decided personalized coasters was a good idea. Using engraved cork backed with oak seemed like a good balance between quality and economy - I'll have to make 250 of them. Luckily for me my coworker had a drill press I can borrow which I'll attach my hole saw blade to. I've never done any laser engravings though... I decided to get a Meterk 1500 mW laser engraver. All

Cable Receiver Bracket

A coworker of mine needed a way to hang his cable receiver to his mounted television. Got the dimensions and printed him a set of brackets - seemed to work well. The filament used was white. He spray painted it black and says it adhered well to the plastic.