Laser Etched Luggage Tags

If you have a laser etcher and want to make some slick luggage tags (or any other kind of location specific tag) you can use a map of your home town, spray adhesive, scrap acrylic and a laser cutter to turn out some pretty sweet results.

Step 1 Materials

• Some scrap 1/8" acrylic (translucent colors will give you a back lit effect - ie. classy)
• A map that you like (your home town perhaps?)
• Spray adhesive
• Spray on gloss clear coat (most spray paint companies make a high glass clear coat)
• Aleene's Laminate IT (or some other comparable liquid laminate - look for anything made to stick and seal paper to plastic or "decoupage")
• A brush
• A laser cutter (or an exacto knife, a stencil, and some patience)
• Phone book and wax paper (optional)

Comments

[porcupinemamma]

...didn't add, the suggestion was to increase your privacy and safety. I'd love to have cool tags like yours! :0)

[porcupinemamma]

Love it! I read somewhere that it is best to insert tags in a tiny folder so your address can't be seen by everyone.

[thepelton]

laserbits.com has luggage tags, and a whole lot of other engraveable stuff. (No, I'm not getting a comission.)

[thepelton]

Where do you get the acrylic cards? I have an Epilog, and I would love to make those.

[noahw]

I cut them from a sheet of 1/8" acrylic using the laser cutter of course. Remember, you've got a laser cutter - you don't need to buy anything but stock material anymore - you can make whatever you want!

[T3h_Muffinator]

Did you make these before or after the epilog broke? 'Cause that doesn't look like the versalaser... Btw... Project X is coming......

[noahw]

The Epilog was fixed - it needed a new power supply (ironically the same part that was replaced on the Versalaser). Then it broke again. Then I massaged the air supply lines (very delicate touch) and then it worked again. Then we started cutting smelly things and made everyone in the building sick, and so we sort of scaled things back a bit. But long story short - the Epilog lives! When can we expect Project X? The video is all done for it, Matt finished it weeks ago.

[GorillazMiko]

very cool, but did you add this to the laser cutter contest?

[Weissensteinburg]

Staff aren't allowed to enter contest ;)

[GorillazMiko]

oh yeah..

[T3h_Muffinator]

Bah! You beat me to if by 1 minute!

[GorillazMiko]

Two, actually.

[Weissensteinburg]

Cool!