So in addition to one 20" vinyl cutter, ten CNC engraving machines and three C02 lasers, I'm finally the happy owner of a fiber laser!
I figured out how to make it work (no mean feat considering the instructions!), and got some surprising results...
one of which was cutting a 1/2" tall outlined arrowhead looking thing into aluminum in the blink of an eye, like 1/2 second.
Ok, so it was only about 2 linear inches, but it was also about .002" deep! The surprise of this was, it was awhile later
that I finally figured out that the 30 power setting I had entered wasn't the wattage, but the percentage!
So after cranking it up a bit, I got some jet-black results on stainless- ooohhh, if only this thing would engrave a 30x30" area....
one other surprising result, so far, is I haven't been able to make a piece of black anodized aluminum look decent...?
So half the fun is going to be figuring this all out...