Laser projects

[BeeMaster2]

You can?t really see the grid pattern so here?s a close up. Maybe a little more visible.

[Lesgold]

Good thinking Jim. From a distance it looks as though you had used a variety of timbers.

[BeeMaster2]

Here is a Business Card Coin. You hand them out like a business card.
This is my first attempt, I made about a dozen of them. The board was warped a little and the laser head caught it and and moved it about 80% into the first pass.

[The15thMember]

Oh my gosh, that is creative!

[Ben Framed]

Oh my gosh, that is creative!

I agree!

Jim I haven?t seen any thing like this in years! If fact I had forgotten about wooden advertising coins altogether until your post. Thanks for posting this interesting project as well as jarring my memory! Thumbs Up!

Phillip

[BeeMaster2]

I bought a rotary unit for my laser engraver. In order to use you have to add feet spacers to make room for the added space needed under the laser.  This causes two problems. One is that the camera is now too close to the glass/tumbler that is on the rotary and now to use the laser you have to remove the spacers to do regular engraving. To fix this I made a 2x4 frame to mount the cover to. It has the camera mounted in it. Then I designed and printed a frame to hold the honeycomb bed that raises up the honeycomb about 3 1/2 inches.  This makes changing from regular engraving to rotary engraving to take less than a minute and all of the components remain aligned.
Here are some pictures. If anyone wants the design for the 3D printed honeycomb mount, just pm me and I will email it. The 2 white pieces on the rotary unit are supports that I designed and printed for glasses/tumblers that are longer than the rotary.
The first picture shows the finished product with the 2x4 base added. It is screwed to the bottom board and the frame is screwed to it. The second picture shows the honeycomb mounted to the 3d printed support. The third picture shows the support screwed to the bottom board.

[BeeMaster2]

The next 2 pictures show close ups of the support unit screwed down. It I s made up of 8 separate pieces due to the size of it.
Notice the notches cut into the corners. This is required due to the pop rivets sticking out on the honeycomb frame.

[BeeMaster2]

The first picture shows the rotary unit in place. I marked the bottom board with a black line so that it is easy to align the rotary and to make it possible to put it back in the same place every time. I also put 2 marks on the Y rail and the frame for the same reason. The last picture shows the supports for long objects.