Brand New Building Plans
The big news for me at the beginning of March was the launch of a brand new venture. A laser-cutter arrived on the second day of the month, coming complete with personal training – till the early hours of the morning! I’d been drawing designs for a number of years – with feature buildings for my 1809 project first on my drawing board – that I hoped I could one day turn into laser-cut models. When I chanced on an American machine being offered second hand, I leapt at the chance to bring my designs to reality and the tabletop.
So now with a new laser-cutter, it wasn’t long before I had a
new website to publicise the designs I was working on and
planning to sell.
I chose to trade under a name that I got from a First
World War poem. Isaac Rosenberg’s poem Louse
Hunting includes the words “supreme littleness”
to describe the pests that plagued the soldiers in
the trenches.
www.supremelittleness.co.uk
There was a lot to learn as getting a laser-
cutter to work properly is more than just
pressing a switch. Of course you can’t laser-
cut without being able to draw – good
drawing is the key – but you also have to
understand what materials the machine can
cut (and which materials it can’t) as well as
understanding the machine itself and its
need for routine maintenance. On top of that,
there is the issue of making sure you have a
solution to not pumping nasty fumes into
the environment, never mind your own
workspace! Fortunately, I was well aware
that ‘every day’s a school day’ so I was
prepared for a quite a bit of trial and error.
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