Materials and Tools: -  1/8” acrylic: one piece 7” x 2.5”
minimum and one piece 6.5” x 2” minimum, if you decide to use my
art; same or different colors – you choose (if you pattern or
detail your acrylic, add an additional 1” to all dimensions to
solidly hold your piece in place – see Step 3) -  calipers - 
vector art software -  USB stick -  laser cutting machine (I
made this at the TechShop: www.techshop.ws, using their laser
cutter) -  heat gun and a flat, heat-stable surface (only if you
pattern or detail your acrylic – see Step 4) -  acrylic glue (I
used Weld-On 3 Cement, very fast set, with a blunt hypodermic
applicator bottle – all available from TAP Plastics)  So, I have
this incense that I rarely (but recently decided to) use that
comes with a little ceramic “tile” holder with a hole in the
middle for the stick.  But the tile is tiny (~0.7”), and there
is no way that it can catch the ash that the stick produces.  I
couldn’t find my old, generic, cedar “boat” incense holder, and
a plate was just too