How about posting some pics of what you're creating??!!

[Trent Sprenkle]

Even if it's pretty mundane, it might be interesting to someone else and give them ideas for new projects! I know I'm always looking for new things to try on the ol ULS!:D

TS

[Mike Chance in Iowa]

Even if it's pretty mundane, it might be interesting to someone else and give them ideas for new projects! I know I'm always looking for new things to try on the ol ULS!:D
TS

How about you start by posting some pics yourself? :p

[Joe Pelonio]

Most of my work now is manufacturing parts for patented items, so cannot be shared. I did recently make
a clock for our travel trailer.379643

[Keith Outten]

Trent,

Spend some time looking at our Laser Engraving archives there are thousands of pictures of fantastic projects plus Corel Drawings and other files that have been shared. If your looking for inspiration your in luck, our Hall of Fame is almost complete and there are some incredible laser projects that we will bring back to the forefront here.

[Julian Ashcroft]

This is a photo of some of the stuff I do. Lots and lots of leather.379663

[Marius Nel]

Hi Julian, those look magnificent! Did you use your fiber to do the engraving?

[Carlos Alvarez]

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Not fun or beautiful, but necessary for making the fun and beautiful stuff.

[Trent Sprenkle]

Sweet camper!!!

[Trent Sprenkle]

Sure, Keith!

[Trent Sprenkle]

Very nice! Pardon my stupidity, but what are they? I like them!

[Trent Sprenkle]

How about you start by posting some pics yourself? :p
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[Julian Ashcroft]

Hi Julian, those look magnificent! Did you use your fiber to do the engraving?

No, The SG350.

[Kev Williams]

-- the most important things me & my machines make --

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:D

[Jeff Watkins]

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@Trent, Do you re-seal the bare engraved ceramic with anything or have you had any issues if you didn't? I had read something awhile back about sealing the exposed ceramic and even re firing in a kiln or oven but haven't tried it yet.

Thanks

[Jeff Watkins]

I've been working away at a 0.016" thick 12x18 brass sheet from Hobby Lobby. Today I decided to make a little Arizona pendant. The Arizona text has some depth to it and was done with a auto rotate .02 hatch and about 20 be passes. Cutting took about a minute and the entire pendant measures a little over an inch.

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[Bert Kemp]

Yea Kev you have the best 3D printer LOL prints in color too $GREEN $

[paul mott]

Laser engraved into Beech.

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[Brent Franker]

This is a photo of some of the stuff I do. Lots and lots of leather.379663

Those look really nice! Would that type of leather work acceptably as a coaster for a drink do you think? If so, doy you mind sharing where you get the leather from? Thanks!!!

[Julian Ashcroft]

Those look really nice! Would that type of leather work acceptably as a coaster for a drink do you think? If so, doy you mind sharing where you get the leather from? Thanks!!!

The leather I use, is around 2mm thick, I would say a little too thin for a coaster, my supplier in the UK sells thicker leather already cut into coaster shapes though. Do a search for Acorn Hip Flasks in eBay. They are based in Birmingham. I buy most of my leather direct rather than through eBay though.

[Jiten Patel]

A few of our latest goodies.

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[Patrick Gardner]

-Reverse laser engraved
- paint filled black
- full sheet adhesive applied
- vector cut
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[Bert Kemp]

Some of my leather for me 379900379901379902379903

[Mark Taylor2]

Some my work lately... tiny little stuff in this case cannon carriages. 26 of them and no way I could ever do these by hand.

[Stuart Petrie]

Urns, urns and more urns! Nothing nearly as impressive as what you guys do, but my work ends up in the hands of a lot of people and the customers are happy with the work I'm doing. Thats whats important I suppose. :)
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[Brent Franker]

The leather I use, is around 2mm thick, I would say a little too thin for a coaster, my supplier in the UK sells thicker leather already cut into coaster shapes though. Do a search for Acorn Hip Flasks in eBay. They are based in Birmingham. I buy most of my leather direct rather than through eBay though.

Thank you, Julian!

[Jeff Watkins]

Urns, urns and more urns! Nothing nearly as impressive as what you guys do, but my work ends up in the hands of a lot of people and the customers are happy with the work I'm doing. Thats whats important I suppose. :)
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Stuart, Nice work! On the Black urn, is that gold and silver or just lighting and if so how did you get the colors?

Everyone's making nice things, keep it up!

[Kev Williams]

Very impressive everyone!

Most of what I do isn't so "artsy" as the vast majority of my customers are other businesses & manufacturers.

This is what I do for my #1 customer, a ski-lift manufacturer:
I build all of their machinery operator panels--
This is 2 of the larger ones, they're roughly 20 x 31"-
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These are being tested before delivery & installation.

This is the inside of the cabinet-
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These are a couple of remote units, the panels are just under 13" square-
these live outdoors...
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This is a hydraulics & brake system monitor...
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-all these panels I build from scratch. A sheet metal shop makes them up for me,
most are made to size but since every install is custom I end up sawing up bigger
panels to make custom sizes. Nearly all panels are loaded with PEM blind studs on the back
for mounting the LED boards and such, and for mounting the panels to the steel cabinets.
All the machining is done on my Gravograph IS7000, and the bigger panels are laser etched
in the Triumph. I bought these 2 machines specifically to help build these panels.
My LS900 laser usually does all smaller panel etching...

My usually #2 customer builds these things--
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-mining trucks for mixing and dispensing ANFO to blow big holes in the ground ;)

The yellow arrows point to my work-
-on operator panel overlay and some labels-
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The overlay for this control box, and another E-stop label...
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These are fiberglass Hoffman electric boxes/housings.
I cut the holes and engrave the lids, the wife paints the engraving.
A couple of other controls labels are shown...
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My ski-lift mfr has been a customer since about 1984, my truck guys since 1991.
A side benefit (to me), both of these companies have had previous employees strike out on their own and start similar companies-
I do all of their engraving too :)

[Stuart Petrie]

The two urns on the right are done in a rotary engraver, not with a laser. Thats just how they come out, whatever base material it is they have under their layer of paint comes out really well.

[Joseph Shawa]

Would be nice to have an upvote button for fantastic projects.

[Joseph Shawa]

Air filter/evac?

[Nick Hale]

I've been working away at a 0.016" thick 12x18 brass sheet from Hobby Lobby. Today I decided to make a little Arizona pendant. The Arizona text has some depth to it and was done with a auto rotate .02 hatch and about 20 be passes. Cutting took about a minute and the entire pendant measures a little over an inch.

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What power laser are you using?

[Jeff Watkins]

What power laser are you using?


Hi Nick, it's a 30w MOPAfrom RayFine, the specific source I had them install is the JPT YDFLP-30-M6+-L1. It has the highest output of their 30 watt MOPA series.

I attached a picture of one of the color tests I did on the bottom of a stainless tumbler. I'm always learning with it and when something fails I give it a go another time and sometimes find a setting that works. I gave up on a particular leather a few weeks ago but was able to dial it in yesterday.

[David DiPietro]

So please don't flame me but this may not have been very difficult to make but when you are faced with a very old cash register where parts are impossible to get, you get the job done and the register open for business.
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[Joseph Shawa]

Looks like you have a color laser! : ) What is with the colors?

[Jeff Watkins]

So please don't flame me but this may not have been very difficult to make but when you are faced with a very old cash register where parts are impossible to get, you get the job done and the register open for business.
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Lol, that's awesome. One of the first things I made when I got my Co2 Laser was a gear for my vertical blinds. $0.10 worth of acrylic vs a $80 kit to get one piece is a no brainer. I've got a 3d Printer and the majority of what I've made have been useful widgets and repair items.

@Joseph, do you mean my color grid? It's just one of the test patters I did with my MOPA. I've been working on a few different logos and will post some color things when I get some I can share.

[Kev Williams]

Gears and teeth are more complicated than some might think! Good job! http://www.engraver1.com/gifs/thumbup.gif

Yesterday I got one of those "I need these today!!" phone calls, part of which was "but I don't know if you can do these, or hold the tolerance they want?"
this was the job, etch a black line around a stainless part, some sort of medical tool-
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pretty tiny and tight tolerances to be sure, especially considering the line is to be .012" wide and the laser beam is half that wide!

this was how I did them- I needed a tailstock stop that would serve as the zero-start point, and keep the rod rolling true-
the rods are only .090" diameter, and where the line is engraved is only .034", less than a mm... any runout and the
beam will miss the rod! And that did happen a couple of times anyway. This was the only pic I got where the camera
caught the laser firing. The stop is just a piece of dowel I made from some other job and an aluminum hole cutout with
a tiny hole start to keep the point steady...
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I ended up with 5 good parts and 5 that were out of tolerance.
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They needed only 2 good ones, thankfully!

[Nick Hale]

Awesome, I have their 30w q-switched fiber. I almost upgraded to the MOPA but I cheaped out. I have yet to actually find anything thin enough to cut out. I will have to pick some of that material up and try it out.



Hi Nick, it's a 30w MOPAfrom RayFine, the specific source I had them install is the JPT YDFLP-30-M6+-L1. It has the highest output of their 30 watt MOPA series.

I attached a picture of one of the color tests I did on the bottom of a stainless tumbler. I'm always learning with it and when something fails I give it a go another time and sometimes find a setting that works. I gave up on a particular leather a few weeks ago but was able to dial it in yesterday.

[Joseph Shawa]

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This was done on scrap 20mm MDF so some of the cuts from the back side showed through.
Trying on other media so that I can get yet more detail.

[Bob Davis - Sturgis SD]

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We do picture framing so here's a frame made from 100 year old barnwood with some leather feathers. Feather design is engraved into Delrin then stamped into leather.

[Joseph Shawa]

Now THAT'S cool!

[vic casware]

wow that's really nice

[Lee Childers]

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[Nick Hale]

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Do you have any words of wisdom that you would mind departing with? I bought my fiber laser just to do stippling
Ive been to scared to try it yet!

[Chase Mueller]

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Unfortunately I work in production, so the most creativity I'm allowed is when I have to tweak a customers company logo

[Joseph Shawa]

Yes. Is the color a coating?

[Lee Childers]

Do you have any words of wisdom that you would mind departing with? I bought my fiber laser just to do stippling
Ive been to scared to try it yet!
Not really... I am new to this as well..I bought my laser in January and just when I think I have it figured out it does something I was not expecting..I started out with Inkscape but found Corel to be a better program for me. I had some old Glock frames to practice on but you can get them fairly cheap online. I find them new for around $50. I have tried many settings and keep a log because every pattern seems to burn different. There are some companies that have classes for this kind of thing but Im cheap and like to do things the hard way.....so I am learning on my own, lots of trial and error and reading posts on sites like this...Im no expert thats for sure but have made a lot of progress since I started...Good Luck

[Darren Wilson]

Few things that have passed through...
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[vic casware]

381285We were asked to reproduce a brass plate for a church that was lost after the 2011
earthquakes, they only found 3 in storage so we worked from a 50 year old photo, great result
almost cant tell the difference between the 4, our one is top right

[Mike Null]

Vic
That's impressive work. Thanks for posting.

[Kev Williams]

Nice Vic! 'Real' engraving AND good repro work :)

Just came across this pic, did this a couple of years ago for a guy, he wanted Kiss on his magwell, I'm still surprised how well it turned out--
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Customer made it, I sent it out to be clear anodized, did the etch with the LS900 C02, black Rub 'n Buff provided the color...

[Jeff McKinnon]

I get to do quite a bit of logo engraving on AR receivers.
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[Keith Outten]

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We do picture framing so here's a frame made from 100 year old barnwood with some leather feathers. Feather design is engraved into Delrin then stamped into leather.


Outstanding work Bob please start a new thread about these frames.

[Melissa BurnerMN]

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I made this for a co-worker. It was a gift for a friend.

[Chase Mueller]

Looks great Melissa! Perfect artwork for that wood!

[Keith Colson]

I made a 1926 TV replica, all laser cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHA5PPDBp_c

Cheers Keith

[Matt McCoy]

I made a 1926 TV replica, all laser cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHA5PPDBp_c

Cheers Keith

That's brilliant, Keith.

[Nick Hale]

Playing with scroll work.

[Bob Davis - Sturgis SD]

I made a 1926 TV replica, all laser cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHA5PPDBp_c

Cheers Keith

I’m amazed!

[Bert Kemp]

great job looks awesome
Playing with scroll work.

[Trey Tull]

Playing with scroll work.

Very nice!!! If you don't mind sharing, what laser were you using?

[Paul Phillips]

Awesome work from some very talented people!
Here are a few boxes I made as gifts, a chess set for my son who is a big Lord of the Rings fan so I found an elvish scripted font for his name and and of course someone had gone through the trouble of actually creating the dwarven runes from the book so I had to put that in as a message for him.
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This is cribbage board I made for my wife who loves Celtic things. The board is white Corian laser etched and paint filled, drilled the holes on my CNC.
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[Matt McCoy]

Those look great, Paul!

[Bert Kemp]

One of my PGR brothers ask if I could do something for his brother who served on the USS Midway, this is what I did for him.383546

[Nick Hale]

30w rayfine galvo fiber. I am happy to share any of my settings with anybody interested in firearm engraving.

[Patrick Gardner]

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This is a 5.5 foot stainless steel scale that I laser engraved using Laserbond. I had to split up my art and engrave most of the copy, then move it to engrave the rest as it is too big for my table. I used the spray can version to get an even coat. I was afraid to try the foam brush on such a large piece. I have never been able to achieve a black mark that I am happy with and I have tried all of the different brands and done power grids as best I could. My machine only engraves from black artwork, so assigning a power to a specific color is not an option for me. Spraying with a satin clear coat now should help to make the mark appear a little darker. Overall I'm happy with it.

[Tim Bateson]

Playing with scroll work.

Very clean Nick. What process do you use to prevent the rough sledge along the edge - A zillion low power passes or some other clean-up after lasering? Is that paint filled?

[Kev Williams]

Very nice job on that chunk of SS--

Slight hi-jack, since you LIKE the LaserBond and it does look nice in your pic, so I'm curious, anyone else currently using LaserBond?

I've been happy with Cermark for 18 years now, BUT, Cermark used in my 80watt glass-tube Triumph on stainless produces (my best analogy) a 70% black whereas the 3 Synrad lasers I've used ALL produce a 90-95% black. And I simply won't sell 70% black... I tried the Enduramark sample kit, and I found it DID produce a much blacker mark in the Triumph, but there issues; the thicker the stuff was gooped on, the blacker the mark, but I couldn't get the stuff to flow out flat , so at the edge of every brush stroke was a raised 'mountain' of e-mark that wouldn't flatten, and all those 'mountains' engraved darker than the 'plains'-- ie: inconsistent, and I won't sell inconsistent either. And FWIW, I won't spray either, must be brush-able. I know e-mark has changed, I need to order some and try it...

The LaserBond looks interesting, but my concern is the cost- yeah the 500gm bottle is $180 v $250 for Cermark, but the suggestions say a 1:1 mix with alky, and I'm at about 2.8:1 with Cermark, which is much more useable product-- $180/1000gm usable=18c a gram, $250/1900gm usable/250=13c a gram... Ok, not that big a deal ;) -- and, if it will work in the Triumph, I can just use Cermark everywhere else. Being able to actually use the Triumph for stainless would be huge for me, that was one of the main reasons I bought it!

Hi-jack done :) -and again, getting that much stainless to blacken that nicely is no mean feat, good job! http://www.engraver1.com/gifs/thumbsup.gif

[Mike Null]

Kev

I just got around to trying the new Enduramark stuff today. It is thicker by quite a lot but I couldn't brush it on and this job along with most of my work can't be sprayed. We went over them twice to get a more even coat but I'll be ordering Cermark shortly. My time is worth too much to worry about a few dollars saved on a product that diminishes my efficiency. I had previously mentioned the application shortcomings to the owner so maybe he is working on it.

[Steve Middleton]

I like it!

[Kev Williams]

Thanks for the info Mike! :)

[Mike Null]

I don't mean to hijack the thread but to continue with another comment on Enduramark. It is black--not more than Cermark but good. I mis-positioned a piece and had to remove the Enduamark. Plan on some work if you have to do it. It's darned near part of the metal.

[Kev Williams]

interesting-- If I could put the Triumph on SS duty, it would free up SO much time on the other two lasers that it would be worth dealing with spraying the stuff. I just need to break down and buy a small bottle of both Emark and Lbond and see what results I get... Also interesting is that the Emark simply won't flow out. I have a certain something here I want to thin it with ;)

[Mike Null]

It needs an emulsifier.

Back to the OP's topic. Here is a piece of Corian that I wanted to play with. I was attempting faux scrimshaw. I downloaded a line drawing (a Bitmap) and engraved it using my acrylic setting and 333 dpi. I then painted it with black ink, let it dry and sanded the surface to remove the excess ink. The engraving time was one minute twenty eight seconds.

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[Kev Williams]

Wow, that turned out nice!

[Bert Kemp]

Very nice Mike and fast too.

[Steve Middleton]

Very nice!

[Nick Hale]

Each side was 5 passes w crosshatch at spd 500 pwr 100 and frq 28 then followed up by 1 annealing pass 3000 30 65 on the 30w. That was the raw pistol in that pic. These are after sand blasting and cerakote

[Kim Vellore]

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This is a 5.5 foot stainless steel scale that I laser engraved using Laserbond. I had to split up my art and engrave most of the copy, then move it to engrave the rest as it is too big for my table. I used the spray can version to get an even coat. I was afraid to try the foam brush on such a large piece. I have never been able to achieve a black mark that I am happy with and I have tried all of the different brands and done power grids as best I could. My machine only engraves from black artwork, so assigning a power to a specific color is not an option for me. Spraying with a satin clear coat now should help to make the mark appear a little darker. Overall I'm happy with it.


Patrick,

The scale picture intrigued me, I first thought it was a trick, but after reading your text I was quite impressed how well this turned out. I zoomed in and was trying to find out where you moved the scale to mark the second half, but could not find it. You have figured out a way to perfectly align it. I was thinking what use this scale could be and thought maybe to measure height, then found a small mistake, the numbers are shifted, "1" should be where "2" is, the scale is 5 feet tall. Hope you figure out a easy fix.
Kim

[Kev Williams]

my guess is that scale is for an industrial application...

[Trey Tull]

Each side was 5 passes w crosshatch at spd 500 pwr 100 and frq 28 then followed up by 1 annealing pass 3000 30 65 on the 30w. That was the raw pistol in that pic. These are after sand blasting and cerakote

That is SWEET!

[John Blazy]

Pickguards, guitar faces and keychains for the band we follow in my acrylic / PET.

[Rex Thomas]

I've been working with about 30 different high schools for the last 10 years producing Senior Night Granites for their different sports programs.
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[Mike Null]

Rex

That's great looking work. How did you do it?

[Bert Kemp]

Really nice. Is that Black Granite?

[Rex Thomas]

CorelDraw X6
Epilog 36EXT

[Rex Thomas]

Yes, Black Granite.

[Tim Bateson]

Where are you finding Good laser-able Granite?

[Rex Thomas]

Where are you finding Good laser-able Granite?
Lasersketch and if they are out of stock I get them from Johnson if they carry the size i need.

[David Gray]

Hi , mixture of co2 and cnc stuff .

https://goo.gl/photos/tbh9aD18ePgZhcow8

[Mike Null]

WOW!

You also have a fiber galvo unit--right?

[Rex Thomas]

Now that is some cool stuff !

[David Gray]

Hi yes 60 watt fibre ... was a learning curve to !!!

[Dave Garrett]

I like your style. this is inspiring work.

[Kevin B Russell]

Stevie Ray Vaughan on 1/8 inch birch plywood.


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[Kevin B Russell]

Memorial shadow box with edge lit front panel, holding a gentleman's denim jacket and pool cue


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[Mike Null]

Very nice work Kevin. That is about as good as I have seen on plywood.

[Steve Middleton]

Very cool!