New toy at work - laser cutter!

4114Effects

So now I can very easily make amp front panels ...




... also cuts up to 15mm plywood and 12mm actrylic so I can make guitar routing templates, logos, cabinet faceplates, the possibilities are (almost) endless. 

Anyone on here need any laser cutting, drop me a message I'll see what I can do

mrkb

Ooh interesting. I assume it can cut or engrave/surface burn depending on the settings? You could do great scratchplate graphics.

WezV

Awesome stuff.   I may need some plastic logo discs soon as I just used my last ones from an order I did over 10 years ago

skippy76

Awesome Kit, very jealous! 

Danielsguitars

Very nice, I'll make a note for future reference

Kalimna

Fabulous stuff

If you were to take files for cutting, what format do they need to be in, out of interest?

Cheers,

Adam

4114Effects

Kalimna said:

Fabulous stuff

If you were to take files for cutting, what format do they need to be in, out of interest?

Cheers,

Adam

DXF, AI or PDF would be fine :-)

viz

Or bitmaps presumably

m_c

Was I the only one who was hoping to see pics of the laser cutter in this thread? :-/

4114Effects

m_c said:

Was I the only one who was hoping to see pics of the laser cutter in this thread? :-/

Good point. I'll take some :-)

UncleBiff

Can it cut our MOP and wood logos?

WezV

UncleBiff said:

Can it cut our MOP and wood logos?

not sure if the tech has moved on, but it used to be that laser cutting only work on really thin pearl.  On something of inlay thickness  the light gets refracted inside before it gets through the material...it quickly turns to dust.

Even Abalam (laminated abalone sheet)was too thick at 1.3mm... I  wasted a sheet of it finding out about this issue

I did have some really thin abalone veneer (0.3 mm) ones cut once.   They were just glued under lacquer  rather than attempting to inlay.

Kalimna

4114Effects said:

Kalimna said:

Fabulous stuff

If you were to take files for cutting, what format do they need to be in, out of interest?

Cheers,

Adam

DXF, AI or PDF would be fine :-)

Thanks

NPP

WezV said:

UncleBiff said:

Can it cut our MOP and wood logos?

not sure if the tech has moved on, but it used to be that laser cutting only work on really thin pearl.  On something of inlay thickness  the light gets refracted inside before it gets through the material...it quickly turns to dust.

Even Abalam (laminated abalone sheet)was too thick at 1.3mm... I  wasted a sheet of it finding out about this issue

I did have some really thin abalone veneer (0.3 mm) ones cut once.   They were just glued under lacquer  rather than attempting to inlay.

so no pickguards?

WezV

NPP said:

WezV said:

UncleBiff said:

Can it cut our MOP and wood logos?

not sure if the tech has moved on, but it used to be that laser cutting only work on really thin pearl.  On something of inlay thickness  the light gets refracted inside before it gets through the material...it quickly turns to dust.

Even Abalam (laminated abalone sheet)was too thick at 1.3mm... I  wasted a sheet of it finding out about this issue

I did have some really thin abalone veneer (0.3 mm) ones cut once.   They were just glued under lacquer  rather than attempting to inlay.

so no pickguards?

Not from solid shell.   Thankfully most are plastic

Jonathangus

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