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Tom, If I can answer any questions for you regarding the options for medallions please feel free to contact me via post or private message. I current make medallions in sizes of 1/2", 3/4", 1", 1.5"...

Tom, I'm the maker of CraftID signature medallions mentioned above by Ralph. Most that I make are wood. I think if you are looking for brass you'd want to do a search for something like campaign...

OK, so nobody has much interest in engraving ebonite. I got my first chance to try it this weekend on a sample piece of material. I started off with a suggested 600 DPI, 100% Power, and 7% speed...

For those who don't know (I just looked it up), ebonite is a trade name for a hard rubber compound often used to make bowling balls.

A potential customer is making a product (not a bowling ball)...

Thanks everyone for the settings information and example pictures. Based on the settings it seems most iPhones are raster engraved as opposed to vector engraved. I don't know that it matters much...

Has anyone engraved an iPhone yet? If so would you be willing to share your settings? I have a request to engrave one, but searches here and through Google don't find any hits.

Paul Proffitt...

I recently engraved my son's Moleskine notebook. These should be available online or in local stores. I haven't shopped for them myself so I don't have a specific source. In this thread I posted a...

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I have a client who makes beautiful urns. The pictures included are of a simple one. Most all are turned on a lathe with threaded lids. This one is turned, but is also octagonal. I created and...

Ok. Fair enough. I didn't look in the manual first. But, in my manual anyway the 35 watt page and the 45 watt page under wood (all the pens will be wood) give exactly the same power and speed...

I'm going to be engraving pens at the Woodworking Show in Atlanta this weekend. The local rep is letting me use his 35 watt demo laser. Mine is 45 watts. I don't want to have to do a lot of...

I'm looking for advice, suggestions, etc. I'm going to be laser engraving pens at the Woodworking Show in Atlanta this weekend (Jan 25-27, 2008). Redmond Machinery is sponsoring a Turn-a-Pen event...

Another holiday engraving opportunity for my son, and again his design.

Settings: Epilog Legend 24TT 45 Watt - 600 DPI, Raster, Speed: 100% Power: 70%

NOTE: Minimum line width for vertical...

Among the new things I needed to engrave over the holiday season was a Moleskine notebook belonging to my son. The design was designed by my son as well.

Settings: Epilog Legend 24TT 45 Watt -...

Richard,

I have Illustrator CS and Corel 12. If you still need help, email me the file to pproffitt@whisperedimages.com and I'll see what I can do with it. If the file was created with...

James, Welcome to the neighborhood. You're practically right up the street from me. I'm in Suwanee, GA. Best of luck with your laser. Tell us what system you have so we'll be able to offer any...

I have a client who is a mason and makes gavels and plaques to hold them that he sells to his and other lodge members. I engrave the plaques he provides with the recipient's information (an...

Freestuff is great. Thanks for the offer and count me in.

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I've never seen anything on how clean the power needs to be for the laser. I don't have any filtering on mine, just my regular house power. But, if you are going to be outside you should make sure...

I haven't tried the black shoe polish yet, but I might give that a go. As a follow-up here's a picture of some of the finished engraving on the client-made pens (all are cocobolo). All comments and...

I am trying my best not to have to introduce anything to color the engraving, just do the engraving itself. Mostly a time issue.

My final settings after trying numerous combinations of single and...

Barbara, I should have tried that already, but forgot. I have done that before. I just don't have a good idea of how far to go with the first versus the second run to get the optimal contrast...

Nancy, that was very helpful if not encouraging. I'll go back to my vectoring the outline of the graphic to get at least an edge with more contrast. I've found that vectoring the edge, even in...

I'm rastering pens made of cocobolo with a customer's logo. I've always had a problem getting much contrast on darker woods. Sometimes using a combination of raster plus a vector outline helps. I...