Take a rather plain piece and embellish it… and Voile….
There are various ways to embellish a piece… route a design… burn a design by way of pyrography … if you are an artist, paint or draw…..or for a fast effective repeatable way…Laser Engraving…
Over the past few years, laser engraving machines have come down in price and are nearly affordable to the home hobbyist… A branded machine is available for under $20,000.00…
Enter the chinese.. a similar machine… obviously not the same quality .. is under $3,000.00
Big difference… of course you expect to do a little tweaking and the laser tubes do not last as long but are affordable and easily replaced.
On Saturday, I went to see a newly found friend. Bec and I met on a Forum for CNC and Laser users… I have been looking at different laser engravers and dropped in on her to see just how they worked..
Even though her machine is only a hobby model, it was very impressive to see running…
I took a few samples down to see how they would engrave…here are a few pics..
Appropriately, a bunch of grapes on a wine tilt…
Cheese anyone…
Notice the fine lines in the font…
Come in Spiner…
Any font any size…
Any thing at all…this one actually was done in raster mode and took about 6 minutes.
Hoping to have one myself soon… but I would be going for a larger more powerful machine… possible with a worktable of 900 mm by 600 mm [3 ft by 2 ft] and all the bells and whistles I can afford…
More next post…
I would imagine you could add an entirely new dimension to your line of products with a machine like this. “Larry’s Laser’s- We engrave anything”
I think with your creative skills this machine will pay for itself in no time. look forward to it landing