Digital fileStainless annealing colour test grid
Find your black, blue, gold and bronze on 304 stainless in one 60 × 60mm tile
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Klein Metalworks 2125.0(2)
£9.00
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Unboxed it an hour ago? Start here. First engrave, focus, safety and the settings that stop you wasting material.
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Open boardStop guessing
Dial in power, speed and passes on the first attempt
53 community-tested settings across wood, acrylic, anodised aluminium, slate, leather and coated glass — filtered by your exact machine and laser type.
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Cut files, templates and bundles made by community sellers — instant download after checkout.
Digital fileKlein Metalworks 212
FreeTumbler cradle jig — free
V-cradle with stop block for straight-walled tumblers, 6mm ply
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Ito Tool Lab 5125.0(3)
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TemplateWedding welcome sign template pack
Six A1 welcome sign layouts for 3mm birch or cast acrylic, editable text layers
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Whitfield Cut Co 1484.7(3)
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CoursePhoto engraving: tonal prep that actually works
A written course on preparing images for wood, anodised metal and slate
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4.7(3)
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BundleSaleParametric box bundle — 12 boxes, 3 kerf variants
Finger-jointed boxes, trays and a living-hinge case in 3mm and 6mm ply
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4.7(3)
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FreeMaterial test array pack — free
Power/speed grids at three scales, labelled, for any machine
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Marcus Vale 11805.0(3)
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New builds
Real projects with the settings that made them — copy the recipe, then post yours.
LP4Five-layer backlit mandala lamp
300mm mandala in 3mm birch, five layers with 3mm spacers and a warm LED strip behind.
LP5480 stainless tool tags, marked in one afternoon
Batch job for a local engineering firm — deep black annealed marks on 304 stainless with a fixture plate.
LX2Walnut and acrylic wedding signage set
Welcome sign, seating chart and 120 place cards for a September wedding, walnut veneer on cast acrylic.
LP2 PlusSlate house numbers with a white infill
Engraved slate tiles with acrylic paint rubbed into the engrave for kerbside legibility.
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March build challenge: nothing but offcuts
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Live clinic: focus, power loss and why your cuts stopped going through
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Latest from the forum
Questions, fixes and finds from the last few days.
Safety & Extraction Pinned
Read this first: materials you must never put in a laser
Pinned because it comes up every week and the answer never changes. Never cut or engrave these: - PVC / vinyl / faux leather with PVC backing — releases chlorine gas. It will corrode your ma…
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Fiber vs diode: what each one is actually for
Comes up constantly, so here's the short version from someone who runs both. Diode (445–455nm), e.g. LP2/LP4 diode module: - Wood, leather, cardstock, dark acrylic, coated/painted metal, sla…
Troubleshooting & Repairs Solved
Engraving is fine, cutting suddenly stopped going through — same file as last week
Nothing changed. Same 3mm acrylic, same file, same settings. Last week it cut through in one pass, this week it doesn't.
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LDS can't find my machine over Wi-Fi after a router change
Swapped ISPs, new router, and now LDS won't see the machine. It worked perfectly for two months before. USB still works fine.
Rotary vs versatile roller for tumblers at volume?
Doing roughly 300 powder-coated tumblers a month. Currently using the rotary extension and it's fine but setup per item is slow — I'm losing a couple of minutes each time getting the alignme…
Selling files here: what makes a listing convert?
I've had files up for three months. Some sell steadily, some never sell at all, and I can't see the pattern. For those doing well — what's in your good listings that isn't in your bad ones?