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DIY Engraving Acrylic Earrings with XTool F1

Jane & Sonja
Learn how to make your own engraved acrylic earrings using the XTool F1. We'll show you the step-by-step tutorial.
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Ingredients
  

  • xTool F1
  • Acrylic blanks
  • Earring hooks
  • Pliers

Instructions
 

Preparing the Image for Cutting and Engraving

  • Open new canvas and uploaded this owl svg and resize it to 1.5” wide. Set the parameters to output with blue light laser type.
  • With the this layer selected , choose the Engrave processing type and with the wreath layer selected choose the Score processing type.
  • Change the processing type to cut for the outer offset line.
  • Highlight all layers and resize the owl to 1” wide x 1” high.
  • Duplicate the layers to show a second owl.
  • Select the material as 3mm black acrylic from the drop down menu.
  • Next, move on to preview to display the prepared owl images on the screen.
  • Place the black acrylic in to the XTool F1 cutting and engraving surface.
  • After pressing Process and Start, the machine will do the work.

Assembling the Earrings

  • Using the pliers, cut a link of chain and ‘open’ a link of chain and connect it to the jewelry eyelet and close the link.
  • Then, with the pliers, open the other end of the chain link and attach the dangle hook loop and close the loop.
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