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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.
Same laser/settings, gold acrylic

This is two-color acrylic. Really easy to engrave (done on Creality F2 Pro) at 20W and 10% power. Cutting needed more power, since it’s white. I used 60W at 90% and two passes to cut through it.

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%
Marble pattern leather, done on a Creality Falcon 2 Pro 60W at 20W, 8000 mm/min, 10%.

Projects

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

Sorry! Game

The game board was done once on a 33 cm square slate tile, and once on a brown-silver two-color leatherette from GreatCarve. The figurines were done on silver and rose-gold two-color scratch acrylic.

Chess

Done on two-color leatherette blue/silver and silver and gold scratch acrylic.

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