Leather marking

IanWatkins · October 25, 2015, 5:16pm

Hi All,

I’m looking to do some etching/marking of leather soon. But in the meantime tried it on some scraps I had. Works really well and could possibly be my new favourite thing.

Done with the JTech 2.8w laser on the X-Carve.

Cheers

Ian

MidnightMaker · October 25, 2015, 5:24pm

GlowForge has got nuthin’ on an X-Carve with a freakin’ laser! (laser safety goggles)

picengravertoo · October 25, 2015, 9:23pm

The GF sure can’t do nothing like this on leather. We raster engraved it with two combined analog modulated 445nm laser diodes on white leather.

MidnightMaker · October 26, 2015, 12:17am

@picengravertoo

That, my friend, is definitely a piece of art!

Chris

picengravertoo · October 26, 2015, 1:54am

Thank you very much Chris.

IanWatkins · October 31, 2015, 4:57pm

Some much thicker 3mm leather. Able to run at 1500mm/min and still get solid deep markings.

MidnightMaker · November 1, 2015, 4:46pm

I’m off to Tandy!

Jay1 · June 5, 2016, 2:41pm

Did you try to cut the leather or PVC with laser ?
And how speed you use for engraving ?