You could re-blue your slide w/ some cold blueing solution, a good one from Brownells would probably even out the laser engraving? Afterwards - a lacquer stick to "Color in" the etching; works good on spare magazines, too. I like the white. Ren wax, good stuff. I recently used it on my Model 1860 Cavalry sabre conservation project. It's even used on paper documents to conserve & protect from environmental damage & so on. You have easily a multi-generational supply there!
the only cold product that I personally know of (and have used) that works on stainless steel is called "ni-black 40" made by sur fin, it's not super durable (rubs off of knife blades when carried in the pocket for extended times) but in the depths of engraving it'll hold up just fine.
Wow! I was on the fence, but this pushed me over. Thanks for sharing! Also, for anyone else who is looking to do this, whatever laser you are looking to buy, it needs to be a FIBER laser. The one in this gentleman's video is the F1 ULTRA, which is a 20W fiber laser. The F1 is an infrared.
There are two F1s models. One is a 2 Watt IR and 10 Watt Blue. They are around $1,199 This one I used was the F1 Ultra and it's a 20Watt Fiber and a 20 Watt Blue laser and it's $3699 for black friday and that's good i paid over 4K when I got mine
@@Samcraftcom the steel was softer than I expected. They are great the full frame was my duty gun for years and I also own the subcompact it was my backup weapon.
In general cleaning pass is 40 to 50% less than your engraving pass so it’s not a special feature. It’s just running an additional pass at about half or a little less than half the power.
@@Semper-Fidelity in general a cleaning pass is just a pass at 40-50 % less than your engraving pass. It does change the engraving look a bit so if it’s black it will be more a flat black so sometimes I don’t do them if I want it dark
@@kvernesdotten i could re blue it or another cool option would be to fill it with powder coat of any color and heat it till the powder coat melted in the engraving that looks really cool and very easy to do
You could re-blue your slide w/ some cold blueing solution, a good one from Brownells would probably even out the laser engraving?
Afterwards - a lacquer stick to "Color in" the etching; works good on spare magazines, too. I like the white.
Ren wax, good stuff. I recently used it on my Model 1860 Cavalry sabre conservation project. It's even used on paper documents to conserve & protect from environmental damage & so on. You have easily a multi-generational supply there!
the only cold product that I personally know of (and have used) that works on stainless steel is called "ni-black 40" made by sur fin, it's not super durable (rubs off of knife blades when carried in the pocket for extended times) but in the depths of engraving it'll hold up just fine.
Wow! I was on the fence, but this pushed me over. Thanks for sharing! Also, for anyone else who is looking to do this, whatever laser you are looking to buy, it needs to be a FIBER laser. The one in this gentleman's video is the F1 ULTRA, which is a 20W fiber laser. The F1 is an infrared.
There are two F1s models. One is a 2 Watt IR and 10 Watt Blue. They are around $1,199 This one I used was the F1 Ultra and it's a 20Watt Fiber and a 20 Watt Blue laser and it's $3699 for black friday and that's good i paid over 4K when I got mine
Link to the upcoming sales www.xtool.com/?ref=j27a8sy1&
@@veemuhnee5309 f1 isn't only ir
Wow, that was pretty easy! Awesome job! I like my M&Ps as well -- great durable pew pews. :)
@@Samcraftcom the steel was softer than I expected. They are great the full frame was my duty gun for years and I also own the subcompact it was my backup weapon.
This is precisely the video I was looking for. THANK YOU!
Did you ever get around to trying the lighter settings?
Question:
Where’d you get the clamp from? I just ordered the f1 ultra and have four coworkers who want their slides done
Are you going to try and laser stipple the frame?
Hpw many watts is the laser you’re using?
the specs on the Xtool F1 show it as a 20W fiber (and 20W diode) laser
Can the F1 do a "cleaning" pass after the engraving? I know some of the fiber lasers do that.
In general cleaning pass is 40 to 50% less than your engraving pass so it’s not a special feature. It’s just running an additional pass at about half or a little less than half the power.
@@Semper-Fidelity in general a cleaning pass is just a pass at 40-50 % less than your engraving pass. It does change the engraving look a bit so if it’s black it will be more a flat black so sometimes I don’t do them if I want it dark
Would inking the engraving work out well? Kinda like those Milwaukee sockets
@@kvernesdotten i could re blue it or another cool option would be to fill it with powder coat of any color and heat it till the powder coat melted in the engraving that looks really cool and very easy to do
@@ALXSHARPEN Oh wow thats advanced haha