I took it up around three years ago as my mam was going downhill with dementia and I needed a mind clearance so looked into random hobbies and pyrography popped up. I haven't tried the blue version yet.
It's mainly pub signs, beer logos, silhouette and that type of thing that I do. I'll see if I can get a few pics up.
Long time no speak, W and I hope things are well.
Sorry to hear about your Mum
I know what you mean about the mind clearance when dealing with it, for me it turned out to trashy "Light Novels" as they could distract me for a while but I could just drop the ereader and do what was needed.
I tried Pyro with my dad's gear years ago and it's fun, there is also something about the smell of the burning wood especially if you are using some of the nicer woods. We used to pick up off cuts and "b grade" bits from a place that imported all sorts of wood (including exotic types) to supply the likes of restorers*/furniture makers and as a side business they did things like training in wood turning and wood hobby supplies (clock surrounds, plaques etc) so always had bins of odd shapes/sizes of sorts often very cheap because they were things like "blanks" with knot holes or an odd shape, hence getting to play with some of the nicer woods.
Not going too badly here all things considered
Yep Cricut. I would be quite interested in a Silhouette to make PCBs
I can see how it would work for PCB's especially if you were making them using photoetching, the trick would probably be finding the right masking film and getting the cut settings right, that is the bit that seems to take me forever, as I can spend hours fiddling with tests to get the right cut when I change materials (it doesn't help I'm using the masking film on complex shapes so it has to be a really thin and flexible film rather than a straight vinyl).
I think the newer models are a lot more flexible than the one I've got, which is something like 2 generations out of date and no longer works with Window 10 PC's directly because it only has a USB1 connection, fortunately it does have an SD card slot as well so I load stuff onto a card, but it's slower/more fiddly than being able to just press "print".
They're an expensive toy, but in my case it lets me save a fortune on manufactured masks (which can cost ~£10-15 for something that doesn't conform to the shape of the model well, or only gets a few uses before it wears out), and gives me the flexibility to adjust them to my requirements as I can do a mask at one size for a large model and simply do it at say 50% for a smaller one, or make changes to it.
*One of my memories of them is a huge barn with things like 12" square Oak timbers that were waiting to be shipped.