Materials
Choose from a wide selection of materials for your project. Our lasers can engrave metal, wood, plastic, glass, stone and more. You name it. We'll engrave it!
For individual orders we can provide the material, but large companies supply their own materials. This way you can have your ultimate pick of materials and take advantage of company volume discounts, saving you money in the long run.
Plastic/Acrylic
Metal
Wood
Glass
For individual orders we can provide the material, but large companies supply their own materials. This way you can have your ultimate pick of materials and take advantage of company volume discounts, saving you money in the long run.
Plastic/Acrylic
- Transparent or opaque, clear or colored - it's your choice!
- Our lasers can handle cutting acrylics up to 1" thick.
- Pictured is a clear acrylic with a green backing, for a vibrant and deep color.
- Optional adhesive backing for a mess-free application.
Metal
- We can laser cut mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum.
- These same materials can be laser marked, either directly or using laser curable ceramic paint.
Wood
- All types of wood and plywood can be laser cut and laser engraved.
- Cutting thick plywood is limited by the amount of glue used to make the plywood core. Veneer cores take laser cutting the best. Exterior (phenolic) glues are the most problematic.
- Solid lumber laser cuts extremely well in thickness beyond 1" thick.
- Laser engraving plywood is typically limited to the veneer thickness. You get unpredictable results once you etch into the glue layer.
- When laser engraving solid lumber, a large heavy grain wood (oak, walnut) will not retain small details, but they have the most interesting background. Light grained wood like birch, maple or alder, will allow the small details to show.
- Wood is one of the best mediums for engraving a 3-D effect.
Glass
- Glass can be either lasered or sandblasted. There is a difference in appearance between the two styles; the lasered image is only a surface mark, very little material is removed. Sandblasting removes the glass and allows for a deeper relief.
- We are also capable of deep sandcarving into glass for a remarkable one-of-a-kind effect.
- The patterns for sandblasting can be cut on the laser using a special tape.
- Similar to glass, lasering only affects the polished surface and does not remove material.
- Lasering works well when translating photos to black marble or fine-grained granite.
- Sandblasting is the choice for large rock and paving stones.
- The laser can cut the heavy silicone masks needed to hold up against the high pressure needed to carve into the stone or cement pavers.