I've definitely cut through a ton of 1/4" ply on epilogs - in my experience, wood is significantly harder to cut than plastics. If you go slow, everything catches on fire. too fast and nothing happens. I've had luck using the highest power I can manage, and then adjusting speed/passes accordingly to make sure wood doesn't burn. Unfortunately, since a lot of my work has been on 60 or 100W systems, the setting I generally use are probably not very applicable here...not sure if that really helped or not...<div>
<br></div><div>Sean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
60 passes at 1.5ma, not through. Trying 30 passes at 3ma right now.<div><br></div><div>Part of the problem, as I have experienced it, is the wood gets cooked, burnt, and won't cut readily anymore. If anyone has other ideas, let me know.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I should say that cutting through the glue layers was messy, but trying 50 passes instead of just 10 might be the solution.<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">I have had little success with plywood, but I have some ideas on what to do next. I have some 3/16th's luan that I've tried before. I'm going to make something a little less complex and try a new tact, soon.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Dave Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@chenerystreet.com" target="_blank">dave@chenerystreet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello Fabbers,<div><br></div><div>New guy here: I understand from a coworker that y'all have a largely functional laser cutter...can it cut 1/4" plywood? 1/8"?</div><div>
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</div><div>If so, I'd love to come by, throw some dollars in the jar, and play with it a little. I'd probably want someone who knows their way around it to give me an introduction, maybe I can arrange to meet somebody?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I just finished my latest machine (see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7REmfZ6O5U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7REmfZ6O5U</a>) and after cutting all those gears on a scroll saw I'm ready for a computer assist :-)</div>
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