Make a Glowing Holiday Lantern for Your Laser
Watch the 2:58 Lantern Maker tutorial: Make a Glowing Holiday Lantern for Your Laser with chapters, a step-by-step PDF guide and a link to open the tool.
In this tutorial
- Start from a Starter Size: the Classic lantern, 90 × 90 × 130 mm inside (each wall 96 mm wide in 3 mm stock)
- Joints: 3 mm material and the Kerf Calculator (ESTIMATE & APPLY: 0.121 mm for Baltic Birch on a diode)
- Lantern build: OPEN, TOP RING or LID, plus a PUMPKIN STEM; a locator glues under the lid
- Window shape (ARCH or RECTANGLE) and the frame around each window
- LED tea light holder (40 mm hole) and paper diffusers, one per window
- The Free library: 26 designs, filtered by holiday (Halloween → Haunted House)
- The Cut check: 2 bridges added so no piece falls out; Strengthen thin wood
- ASSEMBLED 3D with the light on and off; outside size 100 × 100 × 169 mm with the lid and stem
- FLAT LAYOUT with every part and the sheet size
- Export: LIGHTBURN (.LBRN2), DOWNLOAD SVG, and DXF under MORE, all in mm at 1:1. In LightBurn, inner cuts run first and the PAPER DIFFUSER layer opens with its output off
Chapters
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:12 Starter Sizes
- 0:27 Joints
- 0:44 Lantern build
- 0:55 Windows
- 1:08 Tea light and diffusers
- 1:23 Free library
- 1:38 Cut check
- 1:49 Assembled 3D
- 2:08 Flat layout
- 2:21 Export
- 2:35 In LightBurn
What the Lantern Maker tutorial covers
- 0:12 — Starter Sizes
- 0:27 — Joints
- 0:44 — Lantern build
- 0:55 — Windows
- 1:08 — Tea light and diffusers
- 1:23 — Free library
- 1:38 — Cut check
- 1:49 — Assembled 3D
- 2:08 — Flat layout
- 2:21 — Export
- 2:35 — In LightBurn
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