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    Secret Sauce

    We do a lot of marble engraving of photos and as soon as I read about this, I ran and bought a bottle. It does work. We have discovered that the way to do this is to spray the marble with it, and...
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    Keith, in all seriousness, thank you for taking...

    Keith, in all seriousness, thank you for taking the time to post these. I don't know if you had to retype them all, but either way, I know it took quite a bit of time to do this. I will be using...
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    Love it...bring em on. Do you have a book of...

    Love it...bring em on. Do you have a book of them or are you a poet? ;-))

    Mark
  4. Fred, The first thing you have to look at is...

    Fred,

    The first thing you have to look at is the resolution of the image. If you are getting the images off of the web, they will be 72 DPI (dots per inch) and are not suitable for engraving. ...
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    Barbara, Laserbits resells LaserSketch's...

    Barbara,

    Laserbits resells LaserSketch's product...that's why you still had problems when you ordered from Laserbits. We have been engraving LaserSketch's marble since July of last year. We...
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    Keith, If you are looking for a full line of...

    Keith,

    If you are looking for a full line of very nice lighted bases, I suggest you contact Jim Dowler at Scilux Artistic Lighting. His web site is www.scilux.com. The bases come in rosewood...
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    Appreciate the comment. I will look for another...

    Appreciate the comment. I will look for another place for it today. Better safe than sorry, especially when you consider that two of our lasers are YAG sub-surface lasers and cost us beaucoup...
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    Hi, Joe! As I mentioned to you the other...

    Hi, Joe!

    As I mentioned to you the other night, we bought a PhotoBrasive (made by MediaBlast) CrystalBlast cabinet. We also looked at the Rayzist 2034 automatic recycling cabinet. The main...
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    It is possible to cut steel with a C02 laser, but...

    It is possible to cut steel with a C02 laser, but not the kind that most of us own. If I recall correctly, the kind of laser needed to cut steel puts out 2,000 or more watts and costs $250,000...
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    LaserSketch

    We use LaserSketch marble and just have a couple of comments:

    1. Their squares are not always truly square nor are they always the stated size. I had a box of their 12" tiles and at least two...
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    Hi, Steve. Thanks for the link. After I posted...

    Hi, Steve. Thanks for the link. After I posted my original message, I discovered that the old Corel Photo CD collection has quite a bit of what I was looking for too. Does anyone else have any...
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    High Res Classic Art

    My partner is building a house and he wants to look into doing a black marble mural composed of nine 12" x 12" tiles. I know Corel can slice this up for you, but where can you get the high...
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    Keith, We have tried surface engraving of...

    Keith,

    We have tried surface engraving of optical crystal and apparently we haven't "broken the code" on doing photographs. We can do a monolithic object like a filled square and the surface...
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    Shaddy, I'd bet that what you've seen is either...

    Shaddy, I'd bet that what you've seen is either made offshore or with infrared lasers, or both. As with most things, there is a considerable difference between the low end and the high end. We...
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    Shaddy, we're now in two different laser...

    Shaddy, we're now in two different laser businesses. Most of what you see on our site is sub-surface laser engraving of optical crystal. We are basically a production and job shop for that...
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    I'm sure that Keith could give a more learned...

    I'm sure that Keith could give a more learned answer, but from what I know, and read from the Epilog documentation, hardwoods like oak or plys are very hard to cut through. I was playing around with...
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    Just an update. We received our Epilog 24TT 45W...

    Just an update. We received our Epilog 24TT 45W last week and are so far very happy with it. Our primary mission for the machine will be portraits on black marble and wood, but I've already had...
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    As I understand it, when you burn PVC, it gives...

    As I understand it, when you burn PVC, it gives off chlorine gas, which when combined with moisture creates HCl, otherwise known as hydrochloric acid...Also since chlorine is in its own right...
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    David, sorry it took so long to reply. We don't...

    David, sorry it took so long to reply. We don't have our machine yet. It will ship next week, so I can't give first hand info yet. Keith's information was very useful though, because I was told that...
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    I'm not sure about all of the different lasers,...

    I'm not sure about all of the different lasers, but the way the Epilog and Universal lasers work is that of a printer...ie-you "print" to the laser, thus the parallel connection. My understanding is...
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    Hi, David. I'm new to this forum, but thought I...

    Hi, David. I'm new to this forum, but thought I would contribute a couple of thoughts on your question.

    First, as regards the network connection, you can buy small print server boxes (see...
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