[Fab] Laser cutter

Sean Cusack sean.p.cusack at gmail.com
Fri May 6 21:58:35 UTC 2011


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...

Sean

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com> wrote:

> 60 passes at 1.5ma, not through.  Trying 30 passes at 3ma right now.
>
> 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.
>
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:
>
>> I should say that cutting through the glue layers was messy, but trying 50
>> passes instead of just 10 might be the solution.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Dave Johnson <dave at chenerystreet.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Fabbers,
>>>>
>>>> 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"?
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> I just finished my latest machine (see
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7REmfZ6O5U) and after cutting all those
>>>> gears on a scroll saw I'm ready for a computer assist :-)
>>>>
>>>> Thx,
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
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