My ‘little’ brother recently had his firstborn son and my ‘big’ brother is the godfather. Now guess who got to make the gift? That’s right: me! 😉

So my brother got this idea to make a clapper with his face lasered on. We drew up some shapes and looked in the wood bin for some nice contrasting woods.

For the handle we picked what I believe is Asian Padauk. The shells were made from some scrap bamboo. Milling was without issues.

I proceeded by manually rounding over the clapper shells on the belt sander. For the handle I used my router table and a roundover bit.

The lasering however did throw an unexpected issue my way. Seemingly random, the graphic shifted along the X axis.

It took me some time to figure this out, but in the end I found that this was not an issue with my LAYZOR (my own newborn baby ;-)). What had actually happened is the optic endstop sensor on the LAYZOR got blinded by the flash of my cellphone camera, which somehow messed up its X axis position. You can clearly see that the taking of the first picture is the exact moment when the first shift happened. I replicated this once more just to make sure.

So luckily, this was just a strange set of circumstances and not a hardware/software malfunction.

So I tried again without taking pictures this time. Success!

Here it is assembled and oiled:

And off course an obligatory video if it in action: