[Lab] leather and laser

[James Allanson]

In my case I'm looking at laser cutting a segment of the antler (think of a
poker chip sized piece off a cylinder), and laser cut on the flat sides.
 While it doesn't require the use of a rotary tool, it has its own
challenges; the internals are of varying density.

Henri if you like I can bring you a sample piece of deer antler from what
we have, something like a finger sized cylinder.  None of the ones in our
sample are perfectly cylindrical though.  If you are looking for more, try
advertising in a rural area.  I can ask around my area if you like.

Cheers,
James




On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Matthew Bells <matt at mbells.ca> wrote:

> The problem is laser engravers usually only have an x,y control, so any
> cutting or engraving has to be in a plane, since the bean is carefully
> focused down... some have a rotary attachment, so cylinders would work for
> those. This means you would either have to get a very fancy laser cutter,
> or flatten the skull or antlers.
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> *From:* Lab [mailto:lab-bounces at artengine.ca] *On Behalf Of *Henri
> Kuschkowitz
> *Sent:* 2014.February.15 14:50
> *To:* James Allanson
> *Cc:* Matt; lab
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> *Subject:* Re: [Lab] leather and laser
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> oh that would be cool.
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> Where would you get the antlers? i'd love to do/have some to experiment. i
> have seen some interesting painted designs on cow skulls<http://imgur.com/a/PDZIX> as
> well recently but got to figure out where to get some to experiment with.
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> On Feb 15, 2014, at 2:35 PM, James Allanson <james.d.allanson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I was actually looking into something related, cutting into deer antlers.
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Matt <matt at mbells.ca> wrote:
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> The smell goes away fairly quickly, somewhere between barbeque and burning
> hair. It cuts and engraves well. One of the guys at Kwartzlab has been
> doing cow hide, I think...
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> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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> *From: *Darcy Whyte
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> *Sent: *Monday, January 27, 2014 12:02
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> *To: *Henri Kuschkowitz
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> *Cc: *lab
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> *Subject: *Re: [Lab] leather and laser
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> I get the feeling cutting and engraving works well. But not sure I'm in
> the mood for odd smells. :)
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> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Henri Kuschkowitz <
> henri.kuschkowitz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey.
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> I engraved regular cow hide before and with low power it works quite well
> (mind you the smell).
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> Cheers,
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> Henri
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> On Jan 26, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
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> oops, silly typo. I mean't "Deer Hide". :)
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> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Mike Milinkovich <
> mike.milinkovich at eclipse.org> wrote:
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> On 26/01/2014 9:35 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
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> Anybody cut dear hide with the laser before? Or other leather?
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> Please tell me that you meant to write "deer hide"!? :)
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