# Father's Day Gift

**URL:** <https://community.wazer.com/t/fathers-day-gift/386>\
**Category:** Projects\
**Created:** [April 12, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.wazer.com/t/fathers-day-gift/386 "2022-04-12T16:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.wazer.com/alex/32/14_2.png) [@Alex](https://community.wazer.com/u/Alex)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.wazer.com/t/fathers-day-gift/386/1 "2022-04-12T16:41:38Z")

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My most fond memories are of Summer-time. I am a huge advocate of camping, swimming, and boating. Luckily enough, this is what every weekend consisted of during my entire school career. I even took my first job as a State Park attendant near the campgrounds where my tent was regularly set-up.

I have my father to thank for teaching me all the ins-and-outs of boating. It’s a huge part of who I am and what I love. For Father’s Day last year, I decided to share with him a piece of that. Creating a simple cut-out of glass that matched the outline of the boat I grew up on was super easy on the WAZER.

I wanted as simple of a piece as possible, so I broke it down into three parts. Using a reference picture, I was able to manually trace the outline of the boat, window, and side graphic using Inkscape.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/wazer/original/1X/35b309caaaf44e6a8f29ecb37d021c63aea533b1.png)

With the design aspects captured, I then had to envision exactly how I was going to assemble this. My original gift idea was always something in a picture frame, so I would use that as my background and foundation to hold the pieces. Afterwards, how would I handle each of the three pieces fitting together?

Windows - Not knowing what would look good, I decided to leave this as a simple cut-out piece and not fill it in. This was my lazy and unimaginative way of dealing with this piece 😅

Side Graphic - This is where I wanted things to align near perfectly. I did not want to apply any bonding agent between the two glass pieces, I simply wanted them to press fit together like a puzzle piece. This was going to be difficult due to the shape of the graphic.

My first attempt at the cut resulted in a complete failure of the two pieces laying flush together. The inlay was way too large, and simply sat on top of the boat. I was happy with the results, but it didn’t achieve my goal.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/wazer/original/1X/f19763a5872841c8bce55f4e918ebadf5ae87902.png)

Luckily I was able to manipulate some of the WAM features to create an inlay that fit flush with the pieces after about 2 attempts.

I had separated the cuts into two different jobs - 1 for the outside edge and graphic cut-out, with another job for the graphic inlay. Using the WAZER kerf to my advantage, I was able to cut the boat along the center-line cut-path while also bringing it’s scale up by about 6%.

I then took the inlay job and cut it center-line as well. This would essentially give me a single kerf width of edge taken off the sides.

A few more inlay cuts later, and I had my puzzle!

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/wazer/original/1X/a4a1cb55b9c3d58867e4ad290a9ed5b0e57e6436.png)

I was so happy with the way the final pieces came together in the picture frame, I ended up making a 2nd piece (with a turn around that was much faster).

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/wazer/original/1X/a34c7699632e0daa278769beae626788a4bf6442.jpeg)

I gave one frame to my father and the 2nd frame sits at my desk at work.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/wazer/original/1X/52a35a14c9a6db2779dfcfb8a9123c79b6061720.jpeg)

Perhaps this year I can open up my imagination a bit more and take a look into glass bonding in order to create a much more holistic version. I had the idea to add water/waves, background islands, etc. during this iteration but needed to keep it simple for times sake. I am still very happy with the results, but I imagine I can put together a more complex glass piece as my next project. It’s been a great learning experience and confidence boost!