Designing and Laser Cutting a Custom Clock with Adobe Illustrator and Lightburn

This video goes over my process for designing and then laser cutting a custom clock. I use Adobe Illustrator for the design process, Lightburn for the laser cutter project setup, and my Atomstack A5 M50 Pro diode laser (5.5-watt) for the actual cutting.
This process could probably be better optimized, but it does work and I'm really happy with the end result I achieved. If anyone sees places would I could improve the way I go about things, I would love to hear about it in the comments below.
I cut the clock out of a piece of 1/16" balsa wood that is approximately 8.5 inches by 12 inches. These sheets don't seem to have the same issues with warping that the larger sheets I've used previously had, but you are more limited in the size of pieces you can cut from a single sheet.
Here is a link to a zip file containing the Adobe Illustrator file, the Lightburn project, and the various silhouette images I found doing online image searches: cubicleninja.com/arcade-clock...
00:00 Intro / Illustrator Project Setup
01:20 Creating the clockface
02:16 Clock Numbering
03:04 Important Note on Numbering
07:15 Design Elements for the Clock
10:07 Adding in Clock Flair
11:59 Export for Lightburn
12:44 Lightburn Project Setup
13:30 Import and Trace for Cut
15:58 Laser Cutting Time!
16:32 Finished Cut and Clock Assembly