Laser Cut Acrylic Jewelry Tree

Cutting acrylic with a laser opens up a wide variety of projects that you can create. The variety of colors, widths, and textures of acrylic allows our customers to create a great assortment of one-of-a-kind pieces.

Here we are using a colorful array of acrylics to create a fun jewelry tree to help organize rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets.

This colorful piece would look great in a teenager's room and is entirely scalable so you can change the size to be as large or small as you'd like. Change the colors or add a name or thoughtful quote to truly personalize the tree.

Materials:

• Acrylic of varying widths. Our accent pieces were .125 inches thick and the clear tree trunk was .375.
• Acrylic glue.
• Vector pin table (optional.)

Please note: Prior to cutting and assembling all the pieces for this sample club, do a little testing first. Your laser wattage, acrylic manufacturer, width of acrylic and other variables will effect the size of the cuts. While the measurements in the file worked well for the 50-watt Helix we used for the project, your results may be slightly different. You may need to adjust lengths and widths to ensure your pieces fit together properly.

After you've determined the cut sizes for this project, follow the steps below to complete it.

Please consult your owner's manual for speed/power recommendations on your machine. For this project we used a 50-watt Helix with the following settings:

• .125" acrylic:
  Vector settings: 15% speed, 100% power, 5000 frequency.
• .375" acrylic:
  Vector settings: 3% speed, 100% power, 5000 frequency.
  

1. Start by doing a test cut of your acrylic. When you've determined your speed and power settings it's time to cut your pieces.

We recommend using the vector pin table for this sample, as it ensures smooth cut lines.