So my new possible customer inquired about Christmas ornaments. I really don’t do them. To me too much work involved to make any money in my market. But I told her that I did earrings from time to time, and she asked about Christmas earrings.
I bought a 40 set of earrings off of Etsy for $3.00. No biggy.
I tried 3 different ones and my laser just destroyed them. My CO2 that is. I ran the layer as line, and adjusted power / speed all over the place. The wood was Basswood. Same as the one used in the others shown here.
Should I be doing something to the file once it’s opened from the Etsy file. I’m showing the ones that I’ve done with no problem at all, and one of the ones that was just trashed once it was burned.
If I’m not mistaken, the ones that I did were just .jpg’s and I ran a trace on them. I believe I opened up the SVG files on my new purchase. I’m pretty sure that was the only difference in the process.
However, the narrowest parts of the snowflakes are barely half a millimeter wide, so they will vanish at smaller scales and the laser will overcook 2 mm wood in those areas.
It’s a matter of both settings and scale: you cannot arbitrarily scale geometry with a constant “cutting tool” diameter.
I just got in my 5x9 2mm sheets of MDF. I’ve never cut any, and want to experiment doing some layered work. I’ve never done that before either. I’m looking to try and do these for my customers in Florida. Florida Layered Stuff
