BIG PROFIT with Laser Cutting Solar Lanterns! Fast & Easy Design

cozy porch is trending on Pinterest we just made these solar lanterns using only light bur and we'll show you how we did it right now what is up welcome back you like to do it Builder to make it so do we and we have new videos each week this week we're doing a solar Lantern to keep with our cozy porch theme cozy porch is up about 1,000% over there on the pterest trending tab solar Lantern is up about 82% last week with our coach front porch we made a porch rulle sign this week we're going to shed some light on that I think these lanterns are beautiful and I think you could do a whole craft Booth of these lanterns especially if you make them themed so you could do different themes you could add a sports theme you could add a seasonal theme Father's Day is coming up you can make it a grilling theme all you have to do is change out the panels and you can even sell themed panel kits to go along with them so this week we're going to show you how to make these lanterns super easy right in light bur step one we're going to gather all of our supplies we are going to use some Quin MDF like we always do but you can make these out of anything you can make them out of some quinch Birch some 1/ in Birch Maple I don't know I see a lot of like veneer stuff you could probably use too yes you could really make these as fancy as you want them to be they could be high in and stained they could be MDF you can paint them you could even stay in the MDF we do sky is the limit we're also going to use some solar lights so I went in looking for solar lights found these beginning of the summer season so these were literally right in front of me when I walked in the door they are $5 each and the great thing about these is that the little post comes right off the bottom so we're just going to drop this whole insert right in the top of the Lantern and it's perfect it lights right up this one too this one's round take the bottom off so we've got two different types one square one Circle that we can insert right in the lanterns and immediately add some solar lighting to them I think they're going to be great you could also add if you wanted at the bottom or in addition to these solar lights you could add a little puck at the bottom that will have LEDs that change colors cuz and then it'll give it a whole themed look to it I mean you can even use those fairy light LED yes yeah there's lots of options to light so many options just yeah but I want to use these solar lights I think these are a great idea we actually did some solar lanterns that we did out of what one by twos or something one by ones I think yeah uh a couple of years ago that are literally still on our front porch they're also solar they light up every night and I'm often walk up and Pat myself on the back she does and then we'll need some stain or paint we're going to use some foxy Hughes paint the thing about painting them is if you're using this exterior house paint that's going to seal them a little bit more they're going to be just a little more weather resistant but if you stain them they're going to be great if you have them under some sort of an overhang so if they are on your front porch you're likely to have an overhang or back porch uh a gazebo something like that will keep it from being directly in the weather but that outdoor house paint gives them that extra level of protection to keep them UV resistant and weather resistant step two we're going to make our design but before we start designing I know this is going to be curf heavy lot of tabs lot of slots I'm going to whip out my old trusty curing tool here and a piece of the material that I'm about to cut this is scraps from some other project and I'm going to find what the perfect curing is on this guy I don't want it too tight but I also don't want it super loose well it will be floppy and it won't stay together I want to be able to slide this together and it hold together with tension I don't want to have to glue it so I'm thinking O flat 2.5 is feeling pretty good 2.49 littleit yeah it's a little bit snug but I'm not having to jam it in there real tight I'm not jamming it in there I can get it in pretty easy all right and you can find this curing templet on our website uh just type in curing templet in the search bar and he's got lots of versions out there yeah I got a bunch of versions it's free I'll leave the link down below all right I'll meet you over in lightburn first we mocked up an illustrator just so that we get a good look at what we're trying to make and to know what size to make my boxes so I'm going to need a box that's 7 in x 13 in and then a box that's 5 in x 3 in so we're going to go over to Maker case and we're going to make our boxes now so my first one was set 7 13 and 7 these are my outside dimensions now my custom thickness remember when we used my little curing tool to check it we're going to go ahead and put in two25 okay and now I want finger joints and I want some bigger finger joints all right looks good we'll download this box I don't need labels download while we're here we'll just make our other box so we're going to go three five 3 well that looks like a big box maybe I wanted five three five that's the box I'm looking for same material thickness um let's change some of these finger joints a little bit there you go that looks good A download box download now we'll come over to lightburn and we'll import our first box all right so this is going to be the big box on the bottom and we'll import our second box and we'll move this guy over here this is the top tier this is going to be the bottom tier now let's make the x's and stuff the design in the middle so to do that let's draw a box we'll make this box five we'll unlock it 5 by 9.5 all right so this should fit in here now I'm going to use my pencil tool and I'm going to zoom in a little bit just going to click in this corner and come on down to this corner and click now I'm going to hit escape to get rid of my pencil tool and I'm going to come up here in this corner click come down to this this corner click and hit Escape who Escape go back to my selection tool I'm going to grab both of these guys and we're going to give it an offset right so I'm going to make sure I have an outward offset I don't care about the corners really it looks a little too big let's back it down do about just about half an inch we'll say okay we'll get rid of these two little lines in the middle now for this guy I'm going to need a little bigger box so we'll draw or we'll just do controll D to make it a little bit bigger now I'll say we'll lock the perspective and we'll just say 6 in so now it's a nice big box I'm going to grab the big box now hold shift and grab the little box and come over here and I'm going to do boole and subtract now I should have created one object not two boxes it's one object contrl Z now I'm going to grab both of these guys right everything in here and we'll go unite Boolean Union bam now I got my X I don't need this piece though so control U ungroup and I'll get rid of the outer box I'll grab these contrl G to group and we'll line these up in here all right now we'll make some boxes we'll just make a 1 in by 1 in box one and I want to Round the Corner a little bit on this I'm going to go over here to shape properties Corner radius just go give a oh that made it a circle it's going to go 0 two just want to give a little roundedness to those Corners all right let's move this guy up into place and we're going to use our grid array tool we'll give them four across we'll space it out okay I'm going to grab all these let's make sure these are grouped group going grab these guys oops ungroup everything here ungroup all right grab everything here and we'll align Center perfect now I'm going to grab this we'll say contrl d I'll grab it hold shift move it over going to grab this one and this one we'll say controll d and I'll move these oops grab this one and this one contrl D and we'll move these guys down let's make sure everything's align Center everything's on line Center Center and one more Center let's group these guys group group group group let's just make sure these are line Center move this whole box down oops all right now we want to lip on the top and bottom so let's go ahead and grab this guy and we'll give this thing a lip all right first we're going to make a box and let's see what this boxes this box is 7 by7 so we're going to make this box 7X 7 but I need a lip on this box and the lip on this top box is going to be 9 in so we'll do controll D to make a new box and we'll say 9 in we're going to make sure everything is Center aligned right I'm going to grab the big box like we did earlier and then the little box oops going to grab the big box and then the little box and we'll go over here to subtract subtract creates one object right now I'm going to grab everything and we're going to unite there now look I got all my little tabs in here all right we're going to do the same thing that this guy down here so I'll make another box that's 7 by S seven I'll go do contrl D so it makes a duplicate and then this box is going to be eight eight we'll Center oops we'll grab everything and Center it I'll grab the big box then the little box we'll do a subtract boole and subtract now we'll grab both and we'll do a Boolean Union there that's my my bottom one I want the bottom to be two layers so I'm going to make another box holding the shift this is just going to be the bottom bottom so it's nine I'm going to go ahead and duplicate this box and will make the inside eight we'll make sure they are centered now this inside box that's mainly just so that I'll know where to place this box up here so that looks tiered so I'm going to make this blue for score grab these guys move them up a little bit all right so the bottom box is pretty much done now let's work on the top tier box over here we're going to do pretty much all the same stuff if you enjoy this type of content join us over on patreon where we show even more lightburn tips and tricks as well as Adobe Illustrator canva and creative space all right that's it I think my cut file is ready to go step three we're going to make all of our Cuts I'm going to take this a large sheet of quarter inch MDF over to the Eon Nova 14 and we'll cut it out you could probably do this whole project in a desktop laser but I'm going to cut two of them and I want to do them both at the same time so I'm using a large [Music] sheet step four now we paint we have all of our pieces cut in this cute little kit I just love a kit look at this isn't this adorable like you can just package this whole thing we might sell this at the painted tree or something as a little Lantern kit how fun is that yeah paint and assemble all right so the thing about this we told you we warned you there's a lot of curing here you're going to check your curf let see I check before we start painting I just want to see how it goes oh yeah that's perfect yeah perfect amount of curve now you can't put too much paint on here otherwise it's going to change your curving it's going to get super tight and hard to put together so we're going to try to keep thin layers of paint on here Kim at the bottom right yeah well mainly where the tabs are going to go in here yes yeah could get a nice thick coat right in the middle I don't care and we're going to be painting with our foxy Hughes paint so uh I tried to get Garrett to go with a beachy theme I was like let's do something different let's let's go Badger legal Lodge and give it a beach theme or you could do distressed white and black I think that would be a really cool look but Garrett was like let's just keep it neutral so we're to this the first one let just see how it goes so we're going to be using my new favorite neutral color this Heist Haze it is a great like taupey color and then we're going to be painting the tops and bottoms oh I'm going to make my own color cuz I was looking for like a deep Brown so I'm going to use some pine cone path and I'm going to mix my own with a little bit of this midnight Bandit mask just to try to get this to be a little darker I don't want it too dark but this is just a little too light for what I'm thinking and that's going to be the tops and the bottoms the panels are going to be the highest tze now the panels are what you'll be able to swap in and out so if we keep this a real neutral dark color you can swap the panels out with any theme that's [Music] step five it's time to assemble it we're going to start by building the bottom box and the top box then we'll put the boxes together so I'm I'm a little afraid that the paint is going to make these things tight tight fit well that's why you got your friend the rubber mallet that's right always got my [Music] buddy well is the top piece on the right way or it doesn't matter yeah it doesn't [Music] matter now nope it does matter why because the little boxes are at the uh-oh uhoh uhoh good thing it's removable that a test that was just a [Music] [Music] test and there you go [Music] hopefully this box isn't as hard it's smaller it should be easier well I think we've learned next time paint your board and then check your curve paint your board of the day your Cur [Music] because this is painted with a light color and the tops are going to show through you want to make sure that all your edges are clean the top of the tab is going to come through the other [Music] side all right now we're going to glue this piece onto its base and then this piece onto the top now before we do that though let's glue the feet so the squares that came out of the little Windows here at the top we're going to we're going to stack them what did we decide two too deep y too deep and make them feet so that this if you were going to set it on something and maybe that surface gets wet you didn't want all of this touching the wet surface so we're going to put these little feet on there and we're going to use one of these little uh slot pieces that came out as our spacer oh perfect it's like perfect quar [Music] [Music] inch all right well we let this one dry for 20 30 minutes put this piece on now I should be able to see my score mark unless I turned it upside down I it's upside down all right so I can't see my score Mark note to to yourself there is a score Mark and make sure that's face up this is our prototype right [Music] here all right now we're just going to glue that score marks are visible on this one so good news I actually paid attention to which side these are trying to get close to the edge but not get it goopy just want to make sure it floated just want to make sure it's not going anywhere it's got to live there forever I want to be able to see it who like it's nice see it on my front porch and still Pat myself on the back it'll just be the Bas lift it'll just be the glue with some uh shreds of MDF attached to it that's all that will be left all right let's that light in there all right and now the best part like I said you can just take this off and all we're going to do is set this down in there look at that yeah I don't know if you probably can't see it from down there but we can see the light turn on step six profit you could probably get about $45 for these guys put a little Greenery in them sell the sizzle definitely these are we have about $12 with the Caps we have a maybe $12 worth of paint and wood and time in these it's super affordable to make these and then like he said you could sell them for $45 and then you could sell add-on kits the sides maybe the little top pieces for $20 to go with it I think they're a great little addition to your craft Booth you're going to make them interchangeable paint your pieces then measure your curing that was our lesson learn our Pro tip big thanks to all of our patrons we love you guys and that is the best way to support this Channel and there's a ton of stuff happening over there there's a heck of a community I'm going to give this one a little balance o this is a lot heavier than I expected it to be I don't see if I can get one finger on there oh gosh this pretty easy this is easy this easy