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Danger Zone Coasters

Scaling the vectorized SCP warning labels to fit 4 inch cork disks produces a stack of Danger Zone coasters:

SCP Coasters
SCP Coasters

I particularly like the Cognitohazard and Autonomous Object symbols. The Nonstandard Spacetime symbol comes in dead last; if you make one, use very little kerf offset.

Come to find out yellow is utterly unforgiving of smudges / smoke stains; orange is better, albeit non-canon. I cut them face-up through a layer of blue masking tape, which worked surprisingly well, except for a few areas where I didn’t apply enough paint: the chipboard fibers became one with the tape.

The cork disks arrive pre-cut with a PSA sheet, so using a jig for better alignment with the assembled chipboard layer would be a Good Idea™. These were assembled by feel, which is good for about half a millimeter.

A better process: cut an array of the shapes from a large yellow sheet, fit the black inlays from the back, stick the whole affair to a large cork sheet, then cut the circular outlines where small misalignments wouldn’t matter.

In production, it would make more sense to cut all the pieces from blank white chipboard, paint them in groups, then assemble everything.

Best: having me realize nobody else wants coasters.

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