Dragonfly Hairclip

 I've been working on this on and off for a while now. It's a dragonfly hairclip decoration made from acrylic and aluminium.

 The acrylic is turned and polished just like a pen would be, with two parts, one for the body and one for the head.

The wings are engraved aluminium sheet, each pair of wings took about two hours to engrave and cut out, admittedly this is mainly due to the resolution of the input file.

The parts are screwed together and then screwed to the hair clip.

Box

A pen and box seemed appropriate for an upcoming birthday, as I always think it does. I turned a blue ballpoint pen and made a box from some pine.

The person the box was for is musical, so I added some engraving on the top of the box.

The notes are the first few from 'Happy Birthday'. I engraved it from a bitmap. I converted the bitmap to gcode with a utility that was slightly tailored for this engraving job. It looks like I finally have a set of tools that will allow arbitrary image engraving. The depth is set by the greyscale value in the bitmap. These notes were engraved at a single level.