Laser Alley – Mind your noggin

Since Laser alley or my cubby corner is on a raised bed floating floor, it means that I can knock my noggin on the the house floor joists etc… so I thought make a sign to remind me to duck.

The sign is made on 10mm ply with the setting on the laser at 50% power and 3000mm/sec for the lettering and fill and then cutting it out at 100% power and 300 mm/sec with 2 passes. I forgot to turn on air assist until halfway through the first cut… Anyway a quick sand and all is good.

I do think if I was to do this again with the same module (the 20 watt) I would probably increase the power and possibly slow it down a bit more on the fill. However this actually took 2 1/2 hours to etch/engrave as it was..