Laser-cut Magic Mirror frame (3mm plywood, 10W diode laser) + free parametric frame generator

[Fred2Nice]

I wanted to share a small project I recently finished: a Magic Mirror with a fully laser-cut frame. more info : https://www.framistik.com/showcase
The mirror itself is 620 × 375 mm, which is quite large compared to the cutting area of my laser, so the entire frame had to be designed as an assembly of multiple small laser-cut parts.
The material is 3 mm plywood, cut on a 10W diode laser using sheets of 210 × 145 mm.


Final build:

• 10 SVG cutting sheets
• ~56 laser-cut pieces
• finger joints for the structure
• rabbet layer for the mirror
• two backing layers for the 6 mm mirror thickness
• one sidewall layer

Everything was designed so the parts can be glued and assembled like a puzzle.
For a 10W diode laser, cutting a frame large enough for a 620 mm mirror using only small plywood sheets turned out to work surprisingly well.

Frame generator​

To design the frame, I built a small web application that generates the SVG cutting files automatically.
You enter:

• mirror size
• material thickness
• sheet size
• kerf / tolerance

and it generates the cutting sheets with finger joints and rabbet automatically.



Originally I built it only for this project, but I decided to make it public and free.
It works well for my use case, but I can’t guarantee it will cover every laser setup or project. Still, it may help others working on similar frames.

https://www.framistik.com

 

[Alan]

I wanted to share a small project I recently finished: a Magic Mirror with a fully laser-cut frame. more info : https://www.framistik.com/showcase
The mirror itself is 620 × 375 mm, which is quite large compared to the cutting area of my laser, so the entire frame had to be designed as an assembly of multiple small laser-cut parts.
The material is 3 mm plywood, cut on a 10W diode laser using sheets of 210 × 145 mm.
View attachment 8

Final build:

• 10 SVG cutting sheets
• ~56 laser-cut pieces
• finger joints for the structure
• rabbet layer for the mirror
• two backing layers for the 6 mm mirror thickness
• one sidewall layer

View attachment 9

Everything was designed so the parts can be glued and assembled like a puzzle.
For a 10W diode laser, cutting a frame large enough for a 620 mm mirror using only small plywood sheets turned out to work surprisingly well.

Frame generator​

To design the frame, I built a small web application that generates the SVG cutting files automatically.
You enter:

• mirror size
• material thickness
• sheet size
• kerf / tolerance

and it generates the cutting sheets with finger joints and rabbet automatically.

View attachment 10

Originally I built it only for this project, but I decided to make it public and free.
It works well for my use case, but I can’t guarantee it will cover every laser setup or project. Still, it may help others working on similar frames.

https://www.framistik.com

Amazing work! Thanks for sharing and welcome