The Laser Thread

[Linus Knives]

I just emailed a photo to you.

Received. Thank you! The results are very interesting- I’ll have to do some playing around with the settings

 

[Jesse Latham]

Ricky, please email me a picture of your test grid. curiousjess@use.startmail.com
Do the IR 2w laser work on carbon steel?

 

[Ricky-O]

Ricky, please email me a picture of your test grid. curiousjess@use.startmail.com
Do the IR 2w laser work on carbon steel?

I just sent two photos to you, one with 1 and 2 passes, and one with 4 and 8 passes. I have only tried this on AEB-L, but see no reason why it wouldn't work on carbon steel (though the settings might be different). I do believe others on this forum, with a LOT more knife-making experience than me, have used it with carbon steel (I'm a novice knife-maker and have only used AEB-L, so I don't have any carbon steel lying around to test).

 

[DanF]

I'll bet you're cutting the leather sheaths out? My OLM3 10 watt diode laser does a GREAT job of that. The leather does smoke some when burning. I've got an exhaust fan running pulling the exhaust thru a charcoal filter so I can barely smell the leather when the enclosure is fully enclosed with fan running.

Yes, I finally caught up (somewhat) with the program’s abilities and cut all my sheaths, customize wood saya’s for kitchen knives and engrave my maker’s mark with it now.
I vent the enclosure outside, but can still smell the residual charred smell in the laser room.

 

[Linus Knives]

Ricky, please email me a picture of your test grid. curiousjess@use.startmail.com
Do the IR 2w laser work on carbon steel?

It does work on carbon steel. I haven’t done any grid tests but have done a fair amount of 1095 and it works great.

 

[Taz]

I am trying to see which one is 3 pin and compatible with my CNC board and ships from the US to avoid crazy high tariffs! So the Sculpfun may be what I go with since the Laser Tree may be shipping from China with the tariffs. Both of those are 3 pin I believe.

I see no mention of air assist on any of the IR lasers; I am assuming that it's built in somehow or to use another stand alone air assist device? I am still researching about this.