Truly informative video. A few years ago a friend bought a 40W fiber laser for his business for about $20K. I believe the same equipment is now about $5K. Although that’s a great improvement even your 20W unit is still fairly expensive for a hobbyist, especially when you add a rotary axis, enclosure, fume extractor, software, etc. So Friday will have to be very black to get me into one of these this year. But thanks for all the information and best wishes for continued growth of the channel!
There is a way to get a lot nicer marks. Take a look at something called "anneals". It's basically working about 3mm out of focus, and you can get very deep dark marks. Only downside I found is that since you are working out of focus it not quite as precise at a large scale. Something else you can try for steel is just engraving it a bit deeper and cold bluing the engraving, that works too.
@@LSknivesofficial thanks, that's really helpful, I'll try that the next time I use it (both, engraving out of focus and cold bluing). Thanks for the video too!
The fiber is apparently too large, but is mind to be like this. The reason, is that fiber optics have a minimum radius of curvature, indeed if this radius is not observed, can occur a light leak. And believe me, you don`t want to have one (if we are talking about LASER light of several watts in power)
Clever use of the laser to outline/mark parts for machining. I like that!
WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS.
Ok . Using laser to lay out parts very cool .
Truly informative video. A few years ago a friend bought a 40W fiber laser for his business for about $20K. I believe the same equipment is now about $5K. Although that’s a great improvement even your 20W unit is still fairly expensive for a hobbyist, especially when you add a rotary axis, enclosure, fume extractor, software, etc. So Friday will have to be very black to get me into one of these this year. But thanks for all the information and best wishes for continued growth of the channel!
very nice
There is a way to get a lot nicer marks. Take a look at something called "anneals". It's basically working about 3mm out of focus, and you can get very deep dark marks. Only downside I found is that since you are working out of focus it not quite as precise at a large scale.
Something else you can try for steel is just engraving it a bit deeper and cold bluing the engraving, that works too.
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@@LSknivesofficial thanks, that's really helpful, I'll try that the next time I use it (both, engraving out of focus and cold bluing). Thanks for the video too!
The fiber is apparently too large, but is mind to be like this. The reason, is that fiber optics have a minimum radius of curvature, indeed if this radius is not observed, can occur a light leak. And believe me, you don`t want to have one (if we are talking about LASER light of several watts in power)
I see, that makes sense!