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Great Carve Materials

I got some materials from Great Carve to test with my lasers. You can check out their web page to see the different materials they offer: https://greatcarve.com/

Scratch Acrylic

Scratch acrylic is a piece of thin (1.2 mm) acrylic (~300×240 mm) with one side featuring a coating of difference colors like gold, rose gold, silver etc. It doesn’t take much power and can easily be used with 5W diode lasers. Here is an example:

This piece was done on a Sculpfun S10, at 5000 mm/min, 10% power.

Two-color leather

This leather features a second color layer that gets revealed when the top layer is removed. You need to do a material test to get the right values to remove the first layer, but not the second.

This is a leather patch in blue with a silver layer in between. Done on a Sculpfun iCube 5W. 8000 mm/min, 45%

Projects

I combined the two types of material to create some board games for my kids.

Sorry! Game

Chess

For the chessboard, I didn’t do a material test before, and you can see that it was slightly too much power. But all in all it still looked as expected.