Alright, so as I type this up – I’m working on the second round…but anyways.

Here is what this round was about achieving.

A while back, i burned this sucker – took about 62 minutes – completely unrealistic if you want to a engraving shop and have them do this for you, because it would have ended up costing around $10 a minute, I’ll let you do the math. Basically you’d have to sell a crap ton of these prints just to pay for the engraving service.

I wasnt exactly happy about the fact that all of the smaller type had some really thin lines that just didnt ink well.. so i figured I would try to go bigger.

Here are some close up shots of it.

I inked it all up, my only issue now is that running it once through the laser at the settings we used didnt burn it deep enough. However, because of the nature of the beast – hot laser – wood is flammable – the last thing we wanted to do was slow the speed any more than it already was. (Thats what round two was testing – look forward to that post)

Because its not all that deep, the ink gets on the part that I do not want to print… Some of the lines were also rather thin still, so I’m going to revise the poster layout all together and see how I can fix that before I try and sell the prints.

I think I’m going to have to alter the typeface – especially in the C in charm, I don’t understand why that did not come through after burning. This is as big as I can “print” with this laser, so a little playing will go down before these go up on Etsy – also need to get a press I can use, and get some better paper.