[Lab] leather and laser

Mon Feb 17 11:39:36 EST 2014

Hi again,

I’d be curious to take a look if you don’t mind. I could also provide some details of how to use the rotary tool as well, but in all fairness it’s a straight forward process: Everything important for this attachment was already calibrated by Britta when they first got the tool.

James, if I understood correctly you are planing on having the entire antler engraved, not just a cut section from an antler. Depending on the size I think you are pretty much out of luck with the Epilog in the lab as all the options I am thinking of will require the hood to be open and the safety features will forbid any laser operation in that state.

Are you coming on Wednesday?

Best,
Henri

On Feb 17, 2014, at 10:08 AM, James Allanson <james.d.allanson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> 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 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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> I get the feeling cutting and engraving works well. But not sure I'm in the mood for odd smells. :)
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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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> On Jan 26, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
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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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> Anybody cut dear hide with the laser before? Or other leather?
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