Top 10 Laser Engraving Pro Tips - Wood
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- In this episode I’ll share my top 10 very best pro tips on laser engraving and laser cutting wood of all kinds. We go over photos, cutting, which woods to pick and much more! Links below to all resources, supplies and additional videos to help you be successful in your laser engraving business.
✅Private 1 on 1 Consulting With Michael Laser Engraving 911
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:37 1st Tip- Laser Engrave Against the Grain of the Wood
1:24 2nd Tip- When to Use the Air Assist
3:12 3rd Tip- Engraving Photos
5:28 4th Tip- High Detail Laser Cutting of Wood
6:54 5th Tip- Picking the Right Wood for Your Project
9:21 6th Tip- Keeping Your Wood Flat in your Shop
10:45 7th Tip- Getting Darker Engraving on Wood that Doesn't Want to Engrave Dark
12:55 8th Tip- Cleaning up/Avoiding Burnt Marks on Wood
16:03 9th Tip- Connecting all Your Parts for One-piece Designs
17:29 10th Tip- Kerf and Why it Matters
20:14 Outro
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Just bought my first laser engraver 2 days ago.
Your video gave more information and useful tips than the previous 20 that I have watched.
You have a new subscriber .
Great video.
Glad I could help! Thanks for your support!
WOW!!!!! I am absolutely impressed with this one!!! By far the best step-by-step/tip-n-tricks/how-to video I've watched to date since my laser became my bff. He kept me focused to the screen, interested in what he was going to say next. So, what did I do? I continued watching. Let me tell ya, Dude is a wealth of knowledge with verbiage that is easy to comprehend as he explains the whats and whys in detail AND he even dumbed it down for us beginners who are overly eager to learn, but cannot seem to find a good video to learn us without getting overwhelmed and moving to the next one. BI THUMBS UP from Maryland. Subscribed and will be following your videos for more learning, tips and tricks as well as recommendations for supplies. Thank you kindly for this. Will spread the word, routing people to your Laser Engraving 911 channels. Til next time cheers 👌🤘🥇📢🎤🎦
Ummm, wow! That is such a nice compliment! I think you win the best comment award for 2024 with this one, Thank you so much for the kind words and motivation! ❤❤❤
Another tip I've found when cutting thick wood, say 3/4", is that when the laser gets to a certain depth of cutting, the laser beam becomes out of focus to finish the cut. So after a few cut passes I raise the bed to keep the laser in focus to where the material is inside the cut channel and finish the cut all the way through.
great tip, also a 4” lens helps too
Another great video, chock full of handy tips. I am going to try the defocusing trick to darken and the rubbing alcohol tip to remove soot. Thanks.
Damn the first two tips alone are a gamechanger already
nice!!!
Excellent video for newbies. Very educational.
Wonderful tips. All are appreciated
This is great!!! Thank you!!
Welcome!! Glad you enjoyed!
Excellent video! Thanks!
Glad you liked it! make sure you check out my resources in the description for lots of wood supplies, and more great info!
Thank you for the amazing tips!
Glad you like them! Thank You!
Excellent video! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Awesome video and tips. Thank you.
Welcome!!
Solid tips and Tricks. Good video.
Appreciate it! Hope they help!
Fantastic review. Thank you for all great suggestions.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Pure VALUE 911! 👏Keep those tips coming please !! Loved the penny trick to defocus 🌟
Yay!!
Thanks. I all of the yips but found the air assist, picking wood and the photo tips as helpful. This was great info as always. You do not disappoint!
Cool, thanks! nice to hear that! :)
Lots of good info!
Glad it was helpful!,, solid, make sure you check out the links in the description too lots of gold there as well.
Thanks mate that was really useful!
Welcome!
Thanks Michael!!!
Welcome!!
Another great informative video, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
That was a great set of tips! For a beginner, this is very helpfull.
Glad you think so! and Thanks for stopping by!
That was really good information mate. I’m just starting out and I found that your channel gave me more than all the stuff I’ve seen. 👍👍
Welcome aboard! glad you got value!
Thank you!! You finally got me to understand Kerf!
You are welcome!
Thanks Man digging the channel
Nice, thanks for stopping by!
Fantastic information. Those 10 tips are going to be so very helpful. I learned a lot with this video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
You answered most of my questions and some I did not even think about 🙂👍
Nice, glad it helped!
love your content
Thanks, appreciate you stopping by!
Excellent tips thanks a lot
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Great advice, Michael. Thanks for taking the time to make this video it's very much appreciated. My next project is going to require pieces interlocked together, so thanks for the links regarding understanding kerf.
Glad it was helpful! kerf is a thing all in it self, but once mastered.. it easy to compensate for.
Excellent help. I didn’t think about raising the laser and using the defocus to my advantage. And turning the air down.
Also, I was focused on how to hold the wood flat, instead of how to keep it flat in storage.
Thanks for all the help!!!
Great, glad you go some value, thanks for stopping by!
Great video. The air assist and the defocus are the ones I use the most. If you engrave leather, you MUST, reduce your air assist to just enough to keep the lens clean. Life is much better that way LOL.
Thanks for the tips! and thanks for stopping by!
My first laser is arriving tomorrow (xTool S1 20w)...appreciate your guidance very much and just subscribed!
Welcome aboard! Thats awesome!
Nice explanation
Thank You!!
Excellent video. I had no idea that air assist made a difference. I am new to lasers and have been engraving with air assist on full blast. Will try it as soon as I get a chance. Nice quick explanation of what kerf is. I had no idea on a lot of these tips. Thanks again.😁
Glad it helped! and make sure you check out those other videos on Kerf in the description, they are good ones too.
Thanks
No problem, thank you for watching!
Now that I know you have a channel Uncle Brian's gonna watch!
Thanks... and make sure you subscribe! 🤣 and tell all your friends to subscribe!...and your neighbors! TELL EVERYBODY!🤣
Thank you
You're welcome! Glad you dig it:)
Always fantastic information going to try air off today to see the results and will be using the penny trick for sure!
Awesome, thx!
The photo advice - thank you so much! I'm experimenting with a bit damaged Longer Ray5 10W (burnt lense, waiting for new one) and lowering power made photos look decent on birtch plywood
Great to hear!
I have yet to play around with defocusing. Might look into it this weekend.
Cool, yeah it works on all woods!
I just subscribe to your channel, excellent video and tips. Thank you!
Awesome, thank you! check out the links in the description too, lots of good stuff there.
Thanks for the great advice and references..one way to clean wood soot and burn marks that I have used is baby wipes..non perfume and it works great..
Great tip! Thanks for sharing! make sure you check out my resources in the description for lots of wood supplies, and more great info!
Nice vid
Thanks! make sure you check out my resources in the description for lots of wood supplies, and more great info!
Great channel. Thanks for the tips. My Falcon 2 pro 40w with a Xtool fume thing-a-majig shows up tomorrow. So stoked I took the day off. The dog and I will be in the window waiting😄
Have fun!
It was good information.😅
Glad you think so! Thanks!!
Ok...Dangit! You answered my biggest issue in the 1st 2min! Now I gotta go watch all your other videos. What else can I be missing out on?
go on then! get to it! 🤣
Great content! Thanks for sharing the info. It does seem like there is something wrong with your camera though. It continuously pans and zooms throughout the video. Seems almost continuous, it happens so much. Hope there’s a way to fix that.
Thanks, its a style of editing call Jump cuts, its very intentional, not a camera problem. Its a technique to keep viewers engaged
Thank you for the very informative video. Is there a followup to this titled "Top 10 Cutting Pro Tips"? Also many of us cut acrylic. Any tips for that material? Thank you!
Love it, I think that Title is worthy of a video stay tuned!
Total noob here....as well as a new sub. A friend asked me if I could engrave his work logo into a finished gun stock. Little did I know, my 20w laser will not penetrate the shiny finish on the stock. Is there a tape, spray mask or some other option that will help me with this engraving? Thank you so much for the tips. Now I can binge watch the rest of your videos as I need all the education I can get!
what material is the gunstock made from?
Walnut. Thank you.
Another total noob, what is the software you use to generate/edit your pictures? I can get picks from the web just fine but want to start creating my own work!
Thank you for the info. I'm new to engraving and just bought the xtool s1. If you could make a recommendation for me I would appreciate it. I'm trying to figure out how to use lightburn and haven't figured it out. I watched a tutorial on how to get started and drug my laser across the metal grid. I've asked in some groups but as always you get comments from peeps who prefer to mock you than help. Thanks in advance.
Sorry to hear that :( I would take off the laser module and see if there is any damage to the laser where you dragged it First. Next I would recommend that you use the XCS software that xtool provides and not start off with ligtburn right off the bat. You can use light burn later after you get familiar with your laser and the software that came with it. XCS software is much more user friendly to those just starting off with a new laser with little experience. Not saying light burn is not great, just need to walk before you run. hope that helps.
Great information, thanks. You could change to 211 (Information) but somebody would find an awful person’s 2/11 birthday to blame you for.
🤣 yes they would!
Awesome video !I've been searching the web all week trying to get info on my new laser (didn't come with a users manual & can't get any info from the manufacturer).
Long time cnc guy but new to lasers .
I have a 40 w Aenbuslm with air assist wired onto a cnc wood engraver. Using glbr software to mach 3 controller. My main question is air presure for Engraving for different speeds and feeds. Some people suggest a small airbrush aircompresser ,but that barely pushes out air . Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks! A general rule of thumb with air assists and lasers is when you’re engraving you want to try to keep the air pressure down to like five psi around there pretty low just enough to blow any particulates away from the lens but when you’re cutting you want to have your air pressure mostly turned up kind of high around 25-30 psi except when you’re doing acrylic, you actually want to drop that down low so you get smoother cuts. You should watch my video that I just released on top 10 pro tips cutting acrylic to.
@@LaserEngraving911 awesomeness, thanks. Yea ,i will check that out ✌️
kerf = seam allowance
I use vinegar and a microfiber towel to clean wood after engraving or cutting.
Nice, another way, dig it!
Probably a dumb question but the kerf would change based on material correct? For example cutting acrylic vs Baltic birch which have different settings would result in different kerf correct? Really enjoyed the video just trying to ask the questions that the video brought up as I had never considered these issues haha. Appreciate the video tons!
Yes, the kerf can change with different material, correct
What info could you tell us about MDF. I’m working with maple MDF with veneer and regular MDF
MDF is basically sawdust compressed with glue to make a synthetic wood composite. Its engrave fine with very little contrast, and is very hard to cut through due to the glues, and density, and is very hard on fume extractor filters. If your just engraving the veneer on the surface of the mdf base, you dont want to go through the veneer just engrave on the surface.
What is the best practice when staining or painting? Paint first and cut second or vis versa?
that really depends on the look your going after, you can engrave first then paint to get a debossed look, or you can stain or paint first then engrave away to paint to reveal the wood layer. They laser will remove all paint and stain.
@@LaserEngraving911 thank you.
Question: I keep seeing dark stained projects that have a light colored/pale engraving on it and Im curious how that can be achieved. Is that something that can be done with a diode laser?
Hi There, what you are most likely seeing is people engraving wood that is a light colored wood like pine, or particle board MDF that has a stain on top or dark veneer, and they are engraving through the surface to reveal the light wood under it. So you could stain the wood dark then engrave through the stain.
For out of focus, is the laser head further away or closer to the material than normal?
That would be further away than normal :)
Are these tips for omtech 80w laser?
If you have ANY brand Co2 laser then these tips are for you! :)
I am a noob with regard to laser engraving and I have learnt a lot from this especially air assit to name one.
Thank you sir
Nice, thanks for stopping by! make sure you check out my resources in the description for lots of wood supplies, and more great info!
@@LaserEngraving911 I appreciate that and I am getting used to the P2 after coming from the S1 and the results I am getting are very good. It took me a while but the one tip I love, amongst many, is the cetering tip when you were printing on t-shirt. So simple but brilliant.
Once again thank you
@@zedinator Anytime!
@@LaserEngraving911 it has been a while but I have without a working P2 for nearly 3 weeks. The problem I have is that it will engrave for about 1 1/2" correctly, lower power for another 1 1/2" back to normal.
xTool sent me a replacement mirror assembly, the one that goes on the gantry. No change. It worked for a day or two
UPDATE:
It has been replaced and it is working as intended
Tip # 10 is insignificant to my engraver. I’m using an xTool F1 and its kerf is at an angle. The top of the edge is narrower than the bottom edge. There are not many projects for me to do.
Well, you could look into the P2 or the S1 by xTool and solve that issue.
@@LaserEngraving911 if I had the money to buy a new engraver, I would. I purchase usually after a season as Santa Claus. That’s when I have the money.
I was the 912 thumbs up :)
Thanks!!
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Not one product placement. Nice
hahah, well , I'm glad you enjoyed that.
Baltic Birch is cheap? On what planet?
Sorry, I was referring to 5x5 and 4x8 sheets.
Compared to real hard solid wood it is cheap. Check my links in the description for some great pricing on woods. Thanks for commenting!
A plastic razor blade really speeds up weeding tape out of engravings.
yeah I heard that too, nice tip
Hard disagree on the engraving again the grain. Looks far better with the grain.
and that is just fine. Do what works for you!