Hello All! I just got my new laser and am already hitting the ground and running with a challenge. My friend wants me to laser engrave her dad's logo on a set of poker chips. The chips are made of ABS Plastic and are a solid color. I'm doing the following but am looking for a way to make this less labor intensive:
1. Created a template out of plexiglass to set the chips in to keep them in a permanent place for the logo, can do 50 at a time.
2. Use that blue painters tape and cover all chips on each row on the template.
3. Engrave the logo into the center of each chip, removing just enough of the tape and the glue on the back of the tape and a little dent into the chip to be able to fill with paint.
4. Pull the entire template with chips still taped in, go outside, use spray paint for plastic that's shiny silver to fill with.
5. Let dry, then pull all the tape off -- EXCEPT (here's the labor intensive part), now I have to pull out the teny tiny pieces of tape left, thngs like the inside of a B.
There are 500 chips and I'm doing both sides! This all pretty much for FREE because I told her I wanted to and wanted the excuse for the experiment. She pretty much is paying me for all the material and a little bit for my time. (SILLY ME!) -- Anyway, it's been fun.
From what I've kind of learned from reading, I kind of see how I can make this easier, but just don't know exactly what I'm looking for...
A tape that I can wash off and a paint that won't wash off (that would be huge!).
A paint that I can paint on, engrave through, then a different paint to fill with that won't wash off the filled area, but then everything has to wash off (again, leaving the fill).
Anyway, something ike that. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions, or are already doing this!!! Best scenario would be to know if there is a poker chip supplier out there with a different color underneath the surface that I could expose would be great!