This luminous bookend from the laser cutter opens up a view of a winding alley – which leads directly to your own favorite book.

Book Nook: Build a 3D bookend from the laser cutter yourself Analysis Plan a diorama Layout in Inkscape engravings and Decoration Types of wood, pitfalls and opportunities To cut, engrave and glue Laying the LEDs Article in Make Magazine 13 / 2020 read Suddenly they were everywhere on Etsy and Pinterest: Luminous Book Nooks , small wooden boxes that sit as bookends in the bookshelf and sometimes show an alley, sometimes the gate to Moria or the view to Narnia. They remind you a bit of the dioramas that you were allowed to build into a shoebox in elementary school.

The Book Nook, which inspired me to do this project, took the viewer to Diagon Alley Harry Potter. Pre-lasered kits are priced around the 100 to 150 Euro – da I thought to myself “I can do it myself cheaper!” Said and done. (Spoiler: If you use a shared laser, where you pay for the laser time, you might not get away much cheaper.)

In this way, I could also use my own favorite literary world as Book Nook realize from wood: Buchhaim, the city of dreaming books , from the novel of the same name by Walter Moers. Buchhaim is an old half-timbered town where everything revolves around books – from manufacture to sale.

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