3.5mm thick brass OMG 60w mopa fiber 150 lens
3D slice lightburn 2200mm/sec 80% power 110KHz 150QP 600 passes 1270DPI 3.5 hours.
Cleaning 0000 steel wool
Brass black.
Just tried something a bit crazy – laser engraving a little outfit for my kitten, and it actually worked!
Check out the pics below, and I’ve marked the engraving parameters in the images – scroll down to the comments if you want all the details.
Would love to hear what you think, or if anyone else has tried engraving clothes for pets!
Bought a new laser cutter/engraver for my birthday. Creality falcon 10w. I'm pretty impressed with it for the price! I made some layout tools for woodworking.
Does anyone know if the Gweike mcore can do everything the xtools p2s can do but better as it has the fibre built in for metal? Unsure which to purchace but theyre around the same price due to gweike kickstarter
I was wondering if I could ask some advice please? I have started a small wooden business that makes wooden wall decor/ hooks and small wooden gifts. I have been using my cricut to create stencils for painting, but now I can see that it isn't achieving the level of detail and dimension I am looking for in my pieces.
I would love to be able to cut pieces of wood ~1cm ( less and more in different case) and would like to have a reasonably large cutting bed so that I can eventually branch out to larger signs like wedding signs ( I had been looking around 500x300 roughly). I would love to have the option to engrave on the wood with significantly more detail than I am achieving with my cricut, to add some personalised touches to some of the pieces.
I am attending quite a few craft fairs so I have been batch making items so would need something that can make slightly increased volume of products/ cuts/ engravings, but not the same high pace a medium business or factory would be putting out. With some personalised orders also. I would love to have to scope to increase this output eventually.
It might also be worth mentioning ( also probably very obvious as well), but I have no previous laser experience, but am very eager to learn.
Is there anything else I would need to be thinking about? Any advice, do's don'ts, words of wisdom? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
I picked up a sculpfun s9 on marketplace to play around with and experiment. The lightburn trial expired before I got round to using it. (Idiot for installing it before I was ready to play around) and the seller never came through on sending me a key.
Anyone have a lightburn key to share? Is that a thing? Spent 40 on the engraver. Don't want to spend 100 on the software.
Or more realistically any recommendations on what freeware to use. Currently playing with lasergrbl and inkscape.
I've always loved mixing mediums. For this dark fantasy prop, my wife and I combined an FDM 3D printed mechanical heart with a custom laser-cut wooden box.
The heart is a dense 3D print that my wife post-processed and hand-painted with metallics to hide all the layer lines and give it a heavy, iron look. The box was laser cut and engraved with gothic patterns to let the internal LEDs shine through the silk. It was super fun to design something where the laser-cut parts and the 3D printed parts complement each other so well!
If you have access to a 3D printer and/or a laser cutter, I've shared all the files for free:
🫀 3D Files (Heart):https://makerworld.com/it/models/2823799-gothic-snow-white-reliquary-hybrid-prop#profileId-3145208📦 Laser Cut Files (Box):https://www.atomm.com/it/project/123363-gothic-reliquary-box-laser-cut-and-engrave-for-cosplay-or-decor?utm_source=copylink&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sharetoearn2&utm_id=317363
Can’t seem to post a video in the comments of my other post (https://www.reddit.com/r/lasercutting/comments/1thpovl/help\_diagnosing\_a\_co2\_laser\_cutter\_tube\_lights\_up/), so here’s a follow up
As you can see, current registers on the meter, but no burn mark shows up on the tape. I'm assuming with this level of current, you should quickly see the tape burn through? Does the fact that current is registering confirm the power supply is fine and the problem is more likely the tube?
Hi Guys
I'm heavily considering upgrading my diode laser to a CO2, to enable cutting of clear acrylic and glas engraving without all the paint faf.
Anyway, after a bit of looking I found the gweike cloud RF Metal Tube, which is currently on sale for ~€2800, which seems like a decent price.
The idea of not having to worry about liquid cooling is rather appealing to me.
But I can't seem to find much in terms of what other people's experiences are with this machine.
There are some old youtube reviews and not much else.
Does anyone here have any experiences with this laser?
Thanks
Hey all,
Recently purchased a k40 style laser cutter used. Did not have the seller prove to me it still worked, so I’m stuck trying to figure out if it’s not working because of user error or if a component is bad. I’m new to laser cutting so I would assume the former until proven otherwise.
Essentially what I’ve observed is that when I press the test fire switch, about 1 in 10 times I will see a slight burn mark on the piece of wood I have under the laser. Most of the time I get nothing. I thought maybe mirrors were misaligned, however, putting double sided tape on any of the mirrors in any position yields roughly the same results. 9 times out of 10 no mark, but every once in a while it will burn through.
The tube definitely lights up every time. I’ve attached a video, I’m not sure if it’s considered bright enough, but it’s definitely glowing. However, putting a piece of tape right in front of it on the very first mirror only occasionally results in a burn mark. Most of the time I get nothing.
Do I need to replace the tube, or could there be another issue here?
I am a knife maker and blacksmith and have been looking into getting a laser cutter/engraver for etching my makers mark into the chef's knives I make.
I have been looking into getting the Creality falcon A1 10W to do this.
Will that be powerful to do the job?
Has anyone here done laser engraving of high carbon steels?
Is there anything I need to consider when engraving steel that has a mirror polish as opposed to a matte finish?
Thanks in advance
Hey, All!
So, I am going to split an SVG logo I have into 4 quadrants so that I can make it larger. I’ll be using Lightburn in my Xtool D1 Pro 20W.
I’ll be using masked, black acrylic and will spray painting the exposed etching before weeding the rest of the masking off.
Is it best for me to simply divide it into 4 equal quadrants, or should I try to cleverly make an outline around existing lines to create more of set of four puzzle piece quadrants to help the finished product be as seamless as possible?
I suppose the battle here will be the Kerf of the beam….
I appreciate any thoughts in advance,
Thanks!
I was sick of designing gears for school stem projects when teaching mechanical advantage so I built a gear generator (yes vibe code) that lets me laser cut them and the base plate too!
I must admit I was pretty chuffed when it worked.
I made a logo sign that's about 370mm x370mm on ChatGPT and i have a perfect design but every time i ask to replace a item on the logo, when it recreates its way different and some things end up missing. My question is there a way i can duplicate it on illustrator or Inkscape and make layers or any one can help? Thanks!!
Check out RetinaEngrave 5 Cross Platform (need to search it no links here) by Full Spectrum Laser -> free while in beta and nothing to download - works straight out of the box with an GRBL or Ruida controller.
Supports head mounted cameras / stitch and marker cutting as well as LiDAR Autofocus