Darren Null
11-06-2007, 7:38 PM
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It went horribly wrong. And I don't have enough cash to buy another mirror, so it HAD to go right. About the 128mm mark, the laser stopped writing the image and just started doing white noise, and it was 20mm in before I noticed. AAAARGH!. I stopped it. Made up another graphic that started where the laser began acting silly. It finished the rest of it with no problems, but there was a 20mm band which had been burned twice.
The customer wanted a date on it, so I wrote the date in the band before spraying the back black. Because the band had been lasered twice, the black didn't show up very well. So I lasered the date (and the tweedly bits either side to fill in the space) again and sprayed it gold. I confessed all to my client, and she said that she'd want it doing exactly the same if she wanted another one. It did look good, but doesn't show up on the photo well.
So. Just because things go wrong, doesn't mean it's a write-off.
It went horribly wrong. And I don't have enough cash to buy another mirror, so it HAD to go right. About the 128mm mark, the laser stopped writing the image and just started doing white noise, and it was 20mm in before I noticed. AAAARGH!. I stopped it. Made up another graphic that started where the laser began acting silly. It finished the rest of it with no problems, but there was a 20mm band which had been burned twice.
The customer wanted a date on it, so I wrote the date in the band before spraying the back black. Because the band had been lasered twice, the black didn't show up very well. So I lasered the date (and the tweedly bits either side to fill in the space) again and sprayed it gold. I confessed all to my client, and she said that she'd want it doing exactly the same if she wanted another one. It did look good, but doesn't show up on the photo well.
So. Just because things go wrong, doesn't mean it's a write-off.