Knocked around with getting a Laser engraver for several years. Then I saw the price of the A5 drop to 250. So I decided to give it a try. Well, first run was a 400 x x420 simple grid layout for a base under the laser, That worked out great. Then I made a stencil and converted it to a Jpeg. Just like you I used a scrap of 1/4 pine underlayment. Same results as you.... Spent a little more time learning the Controls on Lasergrbl and ran the same stencil on 3/4 pine. Fantastic!!!!!!!! My Adult children want me to make a set of Large dressers for them but they wanted me to engrave designs and such into the drawer faces. With a wood burn/soldering iron that would take forever. Now I just download a Picture into Krita and edit it a bit, open in LaserGRBL, size it to what I want, set my power and speed. and away it goes. A good picture still takes about 5 hours but Im doing other things while it runs. So far it works just fine and the girls get a kick out of personalized furniture. Fixed focus and very easy to set up and use. Best point is "It is very adequate at under 300$". Have not done any cutting or other material yet except pine, Oak and Birch. But for Accenting furniture and cabinets it's doing a great job
@1dgabel I never thought of using it to engrave sections of furniture ... great idea! Like you said, it's all about the settings to use for your software.
@brianbloodworth2429 Correct, it was already uploaded in a different version. I changed a few things which I am trying to test out to see if I get different results.
Knocked around with getting a Laser engraver for several years. Then I saw the price of the A5 drop to 250. So I decided to give it a try. Well, first run was a 400 x x420 simple grid layout for a base under the laser, That worked out great. Then I made a stencil and converted it to a Jpeg. Just like you I used a scrap of 1/4 pine underlayment. Same results as you.... Spent a little more time learning the Controls on Lasergrbl and ran the same stencil on 3/4 pine. Fantastic!!!!!!!! My Adult children want me to make a set of Large dressers for them but they wanted me to engrave designs and such into the drawer faces. With a wood burn/soldering iron that would take forever. Now I just download a Picture into Krita and edit it a bit, open in LaserGRBL, size it to what I want, set my power and speed. and away it goes. A good picture still takes about 5 hours but Im doing other things while it runs. So far it works just fine and the girls get a kick out of personalized furniture. Fixed focus and very easy to set up and use. Best point is "It is very adequate at under 300$". Have not done any cutting or other material yet except pine, Oak and Birch. But for Accenting furniture and cabinets it's doing a great job
@1dgabel I never thought of using it to engrave sections of furniture ... great idea! Like you said, it's all about the settings to use for your software.
Wasn't this video already uploaded?
@brianbloodworth2429 Correct, it was already uploaded in a different version. I changed a few things which I am trying to test out to see if I get different results.
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