Personalize Anything with Your Laser
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Personalizing almost anything with your laser is generally pretty easy if you understand some basic concepts relating to how to create reproducible jigs and get them aligned on your laser workspace. This is true for all lasers, so if you are just getting started and own a basic diode laser or you have a small business equipped with a high end CO2 laser, you can do this.
In this video I will show you how I create personalized items - in this case, pencils - using only some basic drawing software and a mid-range laser that will fit on your desk. Along the way, I will share as many tips as I can to help you get up and running as quickly as possible.
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Great idea with the templates for repeatability! Thanks for the guide.
Glad it was helpful!
Great! Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Great project idea! I am definitely going to be customizing some pencils. These would make great teacher gifts too. I have a Muse 3D. I am new to lasers. I have had it for just over a month. Your videos have helped so much. Thank you!
Happy to hear!
Great vid! Love the template idea. For my NEJE laser, I like to make the designs with a couple cross hairs in either corner. Then I just engrave those crosshairs on the material and use the print and cut feature in lightburn to align the design. Saves a ton of time with alignment and you don’t need to try to keep it so straight
Yes for jigs I make for CO2 laser work, I always put targets in the corners. I didn't see a lot of point here because the cross hair on diode lasers isn't adjustable and appears to be more of a guide than a precise sight. But if they work for the NEJE then definitely use them
I guess I am the 1 in 10k subscribers who's first laser is a Thunder Laser 35-100watt! I did a lot of research and decided purchasing a $10k laser was better than buying a $500-$5k laser and having to either upgrade it or try and sell it to buy what I really needed to begin with.
Thunder Lasers are wonderful products and if I was buying another commercial CO2 they would probably top my list. It isn't what you could call a hobby laser, but if you are setting up a business or augmenting an existing business, it would be a great choice. Comparable specs/performance to a Trotec but 1/3 the price.
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Thank you!
Steve - you are awesome❤
Thanks! Just trying to help
Well I guess I am off to Amazon to get some pencils.. great idea for a craft show.
I put an affiliate link in the description.😀
Excellent work as always Steve. Neat idea too. 👌👍
I hope it is helpful
@@SteveMakesEverything always helpful Steve thankyou, I'm looking forward to you etching glasses with a chuck rotary tool. Hint hint. Lol. My weak spot at the moment. But thanks again Steve. 👌👍
@@gameonuk9169 I haven't forgotten 😀. Look for this coming very soon
@@SteveMakesEverything I will Steve, I watch all your videos regardless, you'll never know how much your videos have helped me, I really appreciate it. Thankyou. 👌👍
@@gameonuk9169 This is all I can hope for. 🎉
Great video, Steve! I'm still adding to my laser engraving knowledge so this helps. I just ordered a steel honeycomb bed and was wondering where you purchased the bar magnet holddowns shown. Using wooden holddowns would be fine except that they would be more likely to be "run over" by the laser. Thanks, Gary Linn
The bar magnet actually came some some failed piece of equipment that I scrapped. I normally use circular neodymium magnets but these ones just weren’t handy. Check Amazon for magnets
Thanks, Steve. I did find some bar magnets on ebay. They're much thicker than yours, 3 mm. But, maybe I can place them some distance from the print and use to "hold down" a thin piece of metal or something that then holds down the print. Hold downs here are exactly the same problem encountered with my CNC. There, most of my hold downs were my own design 3D printed. Of course, they were "sacrificial" but neither my project nor the router bit were usually damaged. Here, I think I will be using thin plywood rather than cardboard for templates as I can then probably use thinner corner-pressure hold downs. Gary
@@garylinn7747 If the magnets are going to get in the way just make the outline of your jig larger so they stay out of the laser's way. Plywood will work fine of course. I tend to use cardboard because I just get so many deliveries in boxes and have tons of the stuff that I can repurpose for this sort of project.
Try 19k Co2 laser.
Hi my friend excuse me ¿how much you can charge for each pencil engrave?
I'm not sure there's an accurate answer to this. If someone wants one pencil it would be fairly expensive, but if someone comes to you asking for 1000 pencils, then the price would drop pretty dramatically. The reason is obviously volume. If you are making many, then you could create a jig and with a single set-up, you could make 40 or 50 at a time.
In the end, you would have to charge whatever you have to in order to make money.
@@SteveMakesEverything thaks so much for the orientation😀
I did this earlier today on my 100w co2 laser. I tried several speeds and power settings. None of the engravings came out dark like yours. Maybe it is the paint they use on the pencil?
Could be the paint or more likely the type of wood in the pencil. If the wood is harder a CO2 laser will tend to ablate rather than burn. I used a diode laser for this, and they only burn.
OK, so when I tried to cut the cardboard, normal single corrugated cardboard, my 5.5 watt laser produced an HUGE amount of smoke and did not cut all the way through. (And smelled horrible despite the ventilation I had) It cut the top layer but I think the smoke gathered in between the corrugation and stopped it from cutting through it and the bottom layer. Have you had any issues doing this? Any idea what I am doing wrong? I expected it to cut the cardboard as easily as yours did given that I routinely cut wood with no issues.
Well if you can cut wood easily use that instead. Cardboard should definitely cut easier than wood though
Your text is upside down for a right-handed user!
I’m left handed 😁. You can go ahead and turn yours over though.