The first draft set a high bar.

In most cases you'd want to fill the lost spaces with cuts of other things you might need, like keychains. But Friday does funny things to people.

The first universal truth of laser cutting: the remains will be almost as fun to play with as the thing you just had cut.

Forget about making it bigger, making it red, or adding a bird. In this studio, we put an F on it.

An F in 55pt Sentinel Bold, to be exact.

Perfect for tucking into that back pocket.

As prototypes go, it's not half bad! After some intense internal testing, these are the takeaways for the next round: beef up the connections between each segment of the stencil, bump the thickness from .5mm to something with a little more heft, look for a material that is slightly less transparent, and collaborate with our friends at danger!awesome to get it produced locally.