I love all your videos , I’ve learned a lot just from watching them . I’m having a lot of trouble engraving on wood ! Will you do a video on that soon ? Or do you have one and I’ve missed it ?
How much air are you using on the cut portion? I know this would be hard to quantify, but I'm wondering if its just a little to create positive pressure in the lens tube or is is a significant amount?
A very significant amount. To be honest, for all of our cuts whether wood, acrylic, or plastic...we cut with the air nearly wide open. And now we have external air.....so it's getting around 40 psi I think.
Excellent work - as always! I am looking to engrave fine lines (as in ruler intervals if that makes sense) on a piece I am about to do and was wondering whether to do these as lines (and if so what setting) or very fine blocks? I figure the line option would certainly be quicker in the setup - and probably in machine time too?
Thank you!!! I would try the line settings. Basically you want to "score it" I would try something like 300/50 for acrylic. That is if you are on an 80W machine.
I am thankyou - just one more thing if I may - you say that the paper backing is ok to be left on but you would remove plastic backing - why keep one but remove the other - I am on a steep learning curve (and trying not to fall off lol)
Sorry, I'm just now responding. We have been moving our business to a new location and got behind on CZcams! :) We don't have a big issue with it, but you can cut it directly on the blades of the Thunder Laser without using the honeycomb. That should help some. But really, our acrylic comes out clean. Are you using CAST acrylic?
So I created my own template, and made this (different settings- I have thunder 100w) and it’s all great. Except my fill for my “name” it seems to be “dusty” and white. How do you get yours to not be dusty? (I don’t know how to send a picture)
@@TheLaserKings yes. Normally we have best luck with the air toggled off in our settings. This goes for pretty much ANYTHING we engrave. The air is mostly used for cutting.
@@malonecustomdesigns glad to hear that. I will never quit being part of the channel, even though this content is interesting, tho I am not good at it myself, but it is very fun to watch. Are you still doing photos, or are you phasing that out and making more space for the designing and crafting?
@@vegardpedersen we are definitely still doing portraits. Most of what we do is all location based at the moment. That is because the commercial space that I rent is full of our lasers and stuff like that lol. So my studio space is limited to a small part. Maybe I should do another shop tour :)
Thank you, Brother, you are a wealth of information for someone like me just starting out, and we have the same laser.
Thank you for your videos! Such great and clear instructions. I appreciate your teaching skills (I am a FCS teacher...).
Thank you so much! We love hearing that!!!
God bless you too. Thank you. Continue doing good content.
We appreciate that!
Awesome, Jay!
Thanks Grant!!!!!
fantastic
Thanks friend!!!
I love all your videos , I’ve learned a lot just from watching them . I’m having a lot of trouble engraving on wood ! Will you do a video on that soon ? Or do you have one and I’ve missed it ?
Sorry I just now saw your comment. We did some engraving on plywood. What are you engraving on?
How much air are you using on the cut portion? I know this would be hard to quantify, but I'm wondering if its just a little to create positive pressure in the lens tube or is is a significant amount?
A very significant amount. To be honest, for all of our cuts whether wood, acrylic, or plastic...we cut with the air nearly wide open. And now we have external air.....so it's getting around 40 psi I think.
Excellent work - as always!
I am looking to engrave fine lines (as in ruler intervals if that makes sense) on a piece I am about to do and was wondering whether to do these as lines (and if so what setting) or very fine blocks?
I figure the line option would certainly be quicker in the setup - and probably in machine time too?
Thank you!!!
I would try the line settings. Basically you want to "score it" I would try something like 300/50 for acrylic. That is if you are on an 80W machine.
I am thankyou - just one more thing if I may - you say that the paper backing is ok to be left on but you would remove plastic backing - why keep one but remove the other - I am on a steep learning curve (and trying not to fall off lol)
Lol just keep hanging on!
The paper is laser safe while the plastic is not. The plastic can cause some toxic fumes.
How do you prevent the flashback on the cut edges, especially on acrylic?
Sorry, I'm just now responding. We have been moving our business to a new location and got behind on CZcams! :)
We don't have a big issue with it, but you can cut it directly on the blades of the Thunder Laser without using the honeycomb. That should help some. But really, our acrylic comes out clean. Are you using CAST acrylic?
So I created my own template, and made this (different settings- I have thunder 100w) and it’s all great. Except my fill for my “name” it seems to be “dusty” and white. How do you get yours to not be dusty? (I don’t know how to send a picture)
Did you have the air on or off?
@@malonecustomdesigns oh I think on. Should it be off?
@@TheLaserKings yes. Normally we have best luck with the air toggled off in our settings. This goes for pretty much ANYTHING we engrave. The air is mostly used for cutting.
@@malonecustomdesigns thank you! I will try tomorrow!
@@malonecustomdesigns what is the air button for then?
how deep is the engrave on the back
We’ve never really measured the depth of it. We need to do that. But we prefer it just deep enough to get a good clean engrave, but not too deep.
Hi Jay, I have not written any comments in a while, just wanted t know how you are doing :-) Is the business going good?
Hey Vegard, we are doing great! And yes, the business has kept us quite busy!!! :) Thanks for being a long time part of this channel!
@@malonecustomdesigns glad to hear that. I will never quit being part of the channel, even though this content is interesting, tho I am not good at it myself, but it is very fun to watch. Are you still doing photos, or are you phasing that out and making more space for the designing and crafting?
@@vegardpedersen we are definitely still doing portraits. Most of what we do is all location based at the moment. That is because the commercial space that I rent is full of our lasers and stuff like that lol. So my studio space is limited to a small part. Maybe I should do another shop tour :)
@@malonecustomdesigns oh that is great. And a new studio tour would be very fun to watch 😄
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@@malonecustomdesigns How are you
Shows up all black only hear voice
Not sure what's up.....playing fine on computers but not phone....might have to re-upload.
Should be working now.