After a great amount of reading and subsequent experiments, I came to a happy spot on laser marking some Brass Compasses for a customer. I felt I'd share, so that anyone in my situation might steam-line their experimenting. (I'd also appreciate to hear how you would price this project as well?)
The product is a simple Brass compass imported from china. I can not say if they are coated or not. I can say that I only cleaned the tops with alcohol, sprayed the can cermark 6000 as a light coat and then ran through the laser with the following settings.
Epilog Legend 36EXT 75watt (Note, I was told this is a 75 watt, but I do not know how to verify the exact wattage)
Power 100%
Speed 15%
DPI 1200
After experimenting with many settings, this one stuck and with decent results imho.
Hope this helps anyone in a similar situation. Feel free to ask any questions, I may have missed. Also, if you have a pricing thought, I ran this same logo on 9 of the same items. Took abut 5 minutes each (obviously I spent most of my time in trial and error).
Thanks
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