There’s a theatrical showing of The Neverending Story coming up, so I figured I’d make AURYN pins for my wife and I to wear to the movie.
Initially I just grabbed an image and etched it in a circle, but then I made a few iterations to refine it, adding a shape cutout and partial cuts to strengthen some lines. Then I used two stains and colored each snake with a q-tip.
Final version, 3 passes:
etch (engrave): 5mA @ 400mm/s
enhance (cut): 5mA @ 30mm/s
cut out: 9mA @ 10mm/s
Very nice 3D effect.
They look really cool. Did you paint them afterwards to get the two colour effect?
@Yuusuf_Sallahuddin_Y Yes. Well, not paint but 2 different color minwax stains, “Golden Pecan” and “Red Mahogany”.
@Tev_Kaber Gives it a beautiful effect. I like it 
They look awesome, you did a really nice job! What wood and thickness did you use?
@Jeff1 Thanks! It was 3mm birch plywood.
Nice work are your files available, wouldn’t mind giving it a go?
These are awesome!! Love to see the posts
Sure thing! The engrave image is one I found unsourced on Pinterest, probably safe to assume it is copyrighted and so this file is for personal use only.
CorelDraw X5 file:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/tevk/laser/neverending-story-auryn.cdr
@Tev_Kaber I found the same image earlier today when searching for Ouroboros.
I think possibly the image is an old one that can’t really be copyrighted, but maybe it is & was just used as an example of Ouroboros.
@Yuusuf_Sallahuddin_Y Certainly there are other old ouroboros designs out of copyright, but I’m pretty sure that double snake/celtic knot design is specific to Neverending Story, the book came out in 1983 and the movie in 1984, well within copyright.
@Tev_Kaber Yeah, I realised that it might be specific to Neverending Story after I posted my last reply. Either way, it’s a cool design & turned out really nice how you did it.
