Laser
In this lession I will show you how I created a jig so that we could do a full bed of skate blades. The tools you learn here can be applied to creating any other jig. This jig was created in acrylic so I will be using the cutout to …
June, 2016
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30 June
Creating a Granite Mural with a Resample Photo Part 2
This is the second part of our tutorial on how to Create a Mural tile using the resample command Invert Our Image The next step is to invert our image. We want to invert it because we are going on black granite tile which engraves up white. Thus what is …
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30 June
Creating a Granite Mural with a Resampled Photo
One of the problems that you have when you are looking at do a mural is typically the photo that you are working with is to small to work with. This was the case when I has creating this mural. For example the photo I was able to retrieve off …
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22 June
Laser Engraving a Guitar with a Photo
In this video I show you how to laser engrave a guitar with a photo. The photo I am using is Neil Youngs Check out the video
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17 June
Clean Your Laser Machine and Make It Last Longer
One of the things that I preach to those that run laser machines is that dirt is your enemy. A dirty machine is susceptible to many issues. These can include a clogged drive which can create slippage in the pulley and cause jagged letters, reduced power due to dirty mirrors …
August, 2012
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23 August
Working with Black Granite – Adjusting a Picture of the Eagles
Adjusting a Picture of the Eagles In this example we will be lasering an image of an eagle onto black laser tile. Figure 1 shows a photo that I bought off the Internet. I am using this image because I want to see what the effect of having our background …