My first laser engraving
So I decided to plunge in into laser engraving world with our new laser cutter and decided to test out how well would an photo or image of some sort look on plywood board. Because of reasons I decided to engrave an part of screenshot from Irssi. First I used 100% speed and 50% power but it made way too light coloured etching, so I then swapped the settings to 50% speed and 100% power, this time it actually carved out some 1 millimeter’ish of plywood, making me have actually quite nice 3D effect on letters raising from background. But for darker colors without actually carving out material I think I’ll need to use less power and speed, so laser would just burn more dark marking in areas where wanted to but not “vapourise” plywood like you see in end result.
Here is short video from engraving process in action and also end result. For first engraving I’ve ever done I’m quite pleased with the results, while it wasn’t directly what I imagined it would look like. It was fun to learn how stuff works. Next time I might try etching an actual photo.
Etched Irssi log.
I would like have engraving on metal plate, is it possible for you to do? I would like to present the plate to customer for long relationships award.
Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Hi. We don’t have employees as we are organization that provides spaces for our members to work on their own projects. We have new laser engraver but I don’t think it has correct wavelength to engrave metals too well. Sticker stencil and electro etching with battery charger is technique one of our members used to do some metal etching. I’ll forward this to our members and see if any of them are interested in working on this kind of project.