Primo Upgrade Medina, OH (Now with lasers!)

Strider_Matic · May 31, 2022, 4:24pm

After drawing inspiration from @dkj4linux 's thread HERE I bought some 4x4 mirror tiles and tried some lazing.

Lighted room, unlit

Lighted room, lit

Dark room, lit

This was just burning the backing off, image reversed, at 1200mm/min, 80% pow, 30(7)watt NEJE laser.

It ablated the glass as it burned the backing, leaving a frosted finish. Zooming in you can see the stair-stepping on the shapes. I think I need to adjust my line interval a bit. This was at .1mm. This was just an quick test with an easy shape I had from when I made some slate coasters, I’m actually more of a VW fan

vicious1 · May 31, 2022, 4:37pm

Super clean!

Strider_Matic · May 31, 2022, 5:48pm

Edge-lit. Though, it doesn’t seem to diffuse all that well.

jeffeb3 · May 31, 2022, 6:57pm

Jason made a write up a long time ago about lasing mirrors:

https://docs.v1engineering.com/tools/laser-engraving-mirrors/

It could maybe use an update. These neje lasers are a lot stronger than the ones we were using in 2016.

Your final product looks very sharp.

Strider_Matic · June 1, 2022, 12:05am

Here’s another one. Kinda reminds me of those framed mirrors you win at an amusement park for getting a ring around a bottle. Maybe the next one will be Led Zeppelin related.