I am now engraving small bamboo cutting boards. Shown here are the six inch by eight inch size. I have done four of them to date. On order are a dozen twelve inch by nine inch bamboo cutting boards. I have no design ideas at present. I will have them “in stock” for when I …
Assembled my Totem S LASER yesterday. As how all the low cost CNC machines from China are shipped, it was a box of parts needing assembly. Extremely well packaged, there was no damage or missing parts. Shipping is a science the Chinese have mastered. The assembly instructions are far from the superior mark. Certainly not …
I notice most of the open frame LASER cutting systems use a “spoil board” under the item being through cut. This “spoil board” is usually MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard). When having been in use for awhile, I notice the board is usually well burned from being exposed to the LASER beam after target material cut-through. …
I have a virus. Maybe the Covid shots caused this reaction. Must put the blame somewhere. I am not in my “right” mind. Then, maybe I am? Could be a left-brain right-brain struggle thing. I ordered a second LASER engraver before receiving and using my first one. The low cost of these tools influenced and …
I don’t yet have my new “toy” (LASER engraver). However, I have done a LOT of investigation into the current generation of low power “diode” LASER engravers. Small open frame designs with output power between 1.5 watt to about 6 to 7 watts. I will arbitrarily set this output “class” size to from 1 to …
Image By User:Eino81 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8003112 The original LASER invention (as I recall) was a glass like mineral ruby rod with a photo (xeon) flash tube wound around the outside. One end of ruby rod was reflective. The firing end was semi-reflective. I don’t think these were used as industrial LASERs. …
WHAT NEXT? Doing a little thinking through blog writing. I have a LASER engraving machine on order. Everyone should know what LASER engraving is. Unless you been a starfish under a rock under the sea for the last 25 years or so. I should not need to explain the concept in too much detail. It …