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by cemc
Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:39 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: Can you cut this stuff on a laser?
Replies: 1
Views: 3484

Can you cut this stuff on a laser?

I've just got hold of a custom made USB stick that has the USB bit inserted into a kind of slightly rubbery material that is black in the middle with a thin layer of coloured stuff on the outer surfaces. the coloured surface has been cut into to create black lined detail. It might actually be made u...
by cemc
Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:15 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: No experience of lasers, how do I start?
Replies: 7
Views: 10919

Re: No experience of lasers, how do I start?

Thanks for all the great answers. I definitely want one, and will get one. Right now I am really working hard to get to grips with corel draw. I want to have at least a couple of patterns ready to go, and its taking me quite a while to figure it all out. Not so hard just drawing stuff now, but to ge...
by cemc
Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:38 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: No experience of lasers, how do I start?
Replies: 7
Views: 10919

Re: No experience of lasers, how do I start?

Thanks Spooky, thats really reassuring.

Guess its just a matter of deciding if the smallest machine (LS3020 - A4 size, 0-4 mm) is going to be enough long term for me or if I nearly treble the budget and go for the LS3040. And then getting down to serious designing.
by cemc
Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: No experience of lasers, how do I start?
Replies: 7
Views: 10919

No experience of lasers, how do I start?

I'm a scale miniaturist (1:48 scale dollhouse mostly) and I'm really wanting to get into producing my own miniatures having seen some really great kits produced by miniatures suppliers using lasercutters. I'm OK with computers, don't know quite enough about corel draw, but thats mostly laziness (not...