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Excellent job Greg. Great fit and finish, super design and excellent photography. Congrats.
Ken

Very cool and impressive stuff.
Ken

Hi Sam,
Rub n Buff will work on polyester resins. Any paste consistancy acrylic paint from an art supply store work well on woods and resins. Also, Laserbits sells a good colorfill product for...

George,
I purchased about 200 maple coasters from www.studioworkshop.com about a year ago. They're about 3-3/4" diameter X 3/8" thick and comes with a lacquer finish. Cost was about $1.75 ea.

Hi Lynn,
Here's a link to a company called Extra-Mile promotional. There's out of Denver. All their pricing includes engraving or printing but they do sell blanks with no engraving. I've bought from...

Hi Mike,
Why not do your work in Illustrator and then import the .ai file into Corel to send to the laser.

I did this image today on a 12x12 marble plaque from Laserbits. Thanks for the link to the parameters Shaddy. I loaded them but stayed with the stock ones for this image. We'll be ordering some...

Excellent images Shaddy,
Are they on the marble or granite. I'll still trying to sort the 2 out. I received 3 pieces of black 12x12 marble from Laserbits today and am going to run an image on one of...

Laura,
Lasersketch looks like a good source. I couldn't find the Photograv parameters
there however I got a 12x12 piece of Absolute black granite today and engrave an image on it. You're right, it...

I accidently hit "submit" before responding to the granite stuff. The attached image looks great. I've got a couple of pieces of Absolute Black granite at my day job. I'm going to run one of them...

Hi Laura,
I've worked with Photoshop for a few years and when I found that Photograv basically converts B+W bitmaps into Duotone/halftone scales I felt confident that I could convert my photos in...

I just checked out Laura's link to Laserscetch and am curious about the reference to Absolute black marble. I was under the impression that "Absolute" was a term reserved for granite. The site also...

Hi Lynn,
Thanks for the compliment. On the pen engravings that I do, I use Laserbit's colorfill. www.laserbits.com
It's about $5 a tube seems to work better than all I've tried.
I don't use...

Hi to all,
I don't mean to change the direction of this thread but I'm trying to find a source for black marble plaques in larger sizes. I've recently received a job requiring a 10x14 black marble...

Keith,
Where do you find the time?
Excellent links.
Many thanks,
Ken

Harry,
Great job on the pens. Being an engraver I love the natural woods. On your next batch, how about some free engraving on them. Possibly "Freedom Pen Project" or "God Bless America". You call...

Hi Tim,
Pink ivory engraves beautifully. Nice medium to dark brown which is a good contrast with the creamy red color of the pink ivory. Unfortunately, I don't have any pics but I have engraved a...

Julie,
I do a fair bit of pen engraving for the penturners around the country and have engraved several stabilized wood pens. I've found that the resins used in the stabilization process have a...

Hi Bob,
I got a couple of drawings sent to me by Epilog on a basic formula for a filter box. Might be a good starting point for making one.
Later, Ken

I sent an e-mail to Universal regarding these filtration systems. Got a couple of names of companies who supply them. You're right Keith, a bit pricey. The first quote for a bare minimum set up was...

Hi to all,
Does anyone have any info or plans for making a portable filtration system for a laser engraver suitable for doing shows/conventions indoors?
I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Ken

Keith,
I own an Epilog Legend 24EX 40Watt engraver. I've had it a little over a year now.
Ken

Ron,
Those are nice. I've found that the antler engraves extremely well. I've done a few and recently included an elk head silhouette which seemed to work out quite well. I've had a few requests for...

Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to photograph the completed version of this project. This model is the first I've done using the laser. Prior to this it was all 3d computer renderings. I...

Hi Keith,
I just finished a model about a month ago. I used matte board (picture framing material). It comes in 100's of different colors and the surface color is fairly thin so it can easily be...