I made one of these for some friends and now can’t seem to make enough of them. The top one is made on 1/4" MDF that is made using Soy-Based glue (bought from Windsor Plywood). It seems to need about 20% less power than regular MDF.
The bottom one is made with 3/8" spruce. Both are finished with Linseed Oil.
They measure 4" x 9". These were made with my Thunder Fusion. I also make ones with a cowboy instead of the woman, but they were made on my Epilog and this is a LightBurn forum so I won’t show them.
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These are spankingly nice.
As for your Epilog: LightBurn does not currently support direct communication an Epilog, Universal Laser Systems, or GCC as these each have very proprietary control systems.
However, if your machine has a “print driver”, meaning that the way that you use it now is by “printing” to it from a program on your computer, you’re in luck!
Please see here for more details: Printing from LightBurn to Epilog, ULS, GCC, and other machines with a print driver
That only works for an Epilog that has the latest Dashboard software. It doesn’t work for older Epilog’s, Universal Laser Systems or GCC, because LB outputs a 1 pixel stroke width, and that is too wide for the mentioned systems. You can engrave, but you cannot vector cut or vector score.
Thank you for the clarification. I wasn’t aware of this limitation.
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I am able to “Print” from LightBurn to my Epilog Fusion but as I do 95% of my designing in CorelDraw, it is better for me to use the Epilog software. Because it equally easy for me to export directly from Corel into LightBurn, I use both the Thunder and Epilog equally.
I find the Epilog is better on leather and acrylic while the Thunder is better on glass and plywood.
Considering the huge price difference, I would probably pick up another Thunder if the Epilog ever stopped working.
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