Wimminz – celebrating skank ho's everywhere

I dunno if it’s the new meme, or I just haven’t personally stumbled across it before, but this whole ethical sluttery thing, which is just polyamory by another name, which is just cuckoldry by another name, seems to be getting traction hereabouts.

What I am seeing is ever increasing numbers of wimminz who, frankly speaking, are so fucking fugly and fucked up that they should be grateful if a dog took the time to cock a rear leg and direct a stream of piss at them to denote “I woz ere” instead throwing their toys out of the pram. Mind. Boggle.

This week marks a month since taking delivery of the laser, and customers I’ve had not a one, but to be fair I’m still practising and learning and am only just ordering business cards and finishing off the labour saving back-end stuff such as a website and associated IT provisions.

This isn’t contrary to my initial thoughts on the subject, and one of the issues I face is the issue of time, a lot of mine goes in the day job, another slice goes on the necessities of life, it doesn’t leave as much as a new business deserves, which is why going in I knew this had to be a softly softly catchee monkey, not a big blowout mega opening day extravaganza.

There is an inordinate amount of time wasted establishing and procuring sources of various arcane things, from pure ethanol to clean the lenses and mirrors to establishing a link with a supplier of acrylic in such a way that they are impressed with what you do, oh yes, freebies for display purposes… it all takes *time*

Nor are you blessed with instant expert skills upon your purchase, you need to learn to use the fucker, and here I can finally understand the Epilog approach, hide everything technical and give the cunts a book with the correct settings for every possible job, and set the whole thing up with “easy to use powerful and flexible” control software that limits more than it enables.

While everyone is sharing videos showing claimed cutting speeds in mm/sec and claimed power levels (75% of what? What power is your laser, how good is the tube, how good are the optics) and so on, and by the way, the videos themselves are all low quality, I’m finding the truth (and I’m posting full HD quality videos of it all) is that the secret is often that quality comes with the minimum power to do the job, at whatever slow speed that happens to be.

I’m finding 25 mm acrylic cuts best at 1 mm/sec and 50 watts, 10 mm acrylic cuts best at 2.5 mm/sec and 30 watts, and 3 mm acrylic at 11 mm/sec and 30 watts, and I get almost perfect optical quality edges from all of those, and none of those numbers ties in with anything else I have found on-line, when I use THOSE numbers, it’s like trying to cut chocolate with an oxy-acetylene torch…. sure, it fucking cuts, mostly, in the minimum time, mostly, but the quality of the end product……. bleh…

BTW the images you see here are 80 mm high lettering raster engraved onto slate, and that slate has been scrubbed with a scourer and detergent several times to prove the durability, and a letter cut into a block of 25 mm thick acrylic, it’s a tight push fit BTW, hold it on its side and the letter won’t just drop out, both pics links to full size. The second one is a particularly confusing one to look and and indeed photograph, because of all the internal reflections and refractions.

So, meanwhile, back at the ranch, there isn’t a queue of customers outside the door of my laser cup-cake boutique, it’s not exactly the launch of a flagship crApple store, but that’s the point, anything done on a single human scale can’t emulate that, trying just dooms you to even bigger failure, it’s a lot like dating, back in the day, or getting a job, back in the day, or anything else, back in the day, where it took slow and steady and consistent to make gains and headway.

Oh, I’ve had enquiries, and some of them may yet turn out to actually happen, but I’m way too old to confuse an enquiry with a cash sale done and dusted yesterday, and in the meantime I’m learning and practising, and one of the things I’m learning has sweet fuck all to do with laser processing of materials, and that’s signs.

I’m now at the point where I can make you what I think are the best, quality wise, edge lit acrylic signs you can get anywhere, and my policy is simple, cost of materials + cost of machine time = cost of product, and my machine time cost ain’t peanuts buddy, I think it is extremely reasonable, especially when you see what it can do in an hour…

And I look at what I can do, and the price, and I look at what others are offering, and when I eventually manage to drill far enough down to get a price… well…. I’m learning that for you to charge that much, you got a largely idle machine and you’re trying to cover costs that way….

I can make the 500 x 470 mm sign on the right in an hour, that’s fifty quid plus maybe twenty for the 10 mm acrylic, I can make the base that this and any other 500 mm wide sign can slot into in 30 minutes, that’s twenty five quid plus a tenner for acrylic, and the fancy schmancy remote controlled RGB LED kit is another twenty five quid.

So, 50 + 20 + 25 + 10 + 25 = 130 quid, call it 250 bucks, for a 0.5 metre square edge lit acrylic sign, with no real limit on what you want engraving on it, complexity wise, costs me about two bucks in electric to make, while I sip coffee and smoke and watch the machine for 90 minutes (and no, the photo doesn’t even fucking begin to do the quality justice, hell, I ripple all the edges to make them POP out visually instead of just straight cuts) three of these and week and I can fucking live, day job or no day job….

And what’s more to the point, there is enough of ME, enough attention to detail, enough attention to quality, enough attention to making you go WOW when you get the finished product in exchange for your cash, that I know for a fact none of the cunts charging 4x or 5x what I do can even come close.

And this is just one thing the machine can do, with just one material, and that right there is the issue… for too many people, shit is a mono-culture.

Husband = wallet, there is nothing else to marriage except access to hubby’s wallet, there is nothing else to starting a business except to call yourself a CEO and award yourself a Director’s Mercedes on lease on day one, there is nothing else to sex except having a mind blowing orgasm.

And it’s not enough.

It doesn’t matter how great I think, for example, my edge lit acrylic signs are, or what great value they are, or how few I need to sell each month to stay alive, if that is all I try and do with the machine it is going to sit largely idle, and before you know it I’ll be talking a thousand bucks a sign, fuck it, the Hilton can afford that shit, so why not…

Which brings us back to this ethical sluttery shite, cunts think that because they are sorta up front and open about what they are doing, which is taking all they can get on a free ride, that being open about it makes it all OK, fuck it, armed robbers are up front about what they are doing (unlike the guvvmint) but that doesn’t make it OK or sustainable.

You got to put more fucking effort in.

I didn’t get the acrylic signs to the point where I’m proud to put my name to them and I’ll sell to any cunt by chance, I had to learn the machine and learn the material and make a whole bunch of mistakes and experiments, I like that, but I don’t like that, so what if I change this like this, and tweak that like that, rinse and repeat.

You have to GIVE A FUCK.

Life is full of shit I don’t give a fuck about, because I am forcibly disconnected from having any influence on the outcomes no matter what I do.

But there are things where the only disconnect from having any influence on the outcome is where you do that shit to yourself, like calling yourself an ethical slut and enjoying the “free” ride.

But it ain’t free brother.

I make the *best* edge lit acrylic signs around, I can say that after one month of pulling the trigger and making the effort. Have I sold even one to a paying customer? No, not yet, and strangely I’m not troubled by that, I’m using two of them for passive illumination in my lounge… >;*)