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Ten boards covering everything from your first engrave to running a laser business. Machine tags on every topic, so you can find people using the same hardware.
Pick a board, or scroll on for the latest across all of them.
Unboxed it an hour ago? Start here. First engrave, focus, safety and the settings that stop you wasting material.
Latest: First week with an LP2 Plus — what do I actually do first? · 3 weeks ago
The small things that make a big difference — masking, defocusing, air assist tricks and workflow shortcuts.
Latest: Backlit acrylic signage: the three mistakes I made so you don't have to · 4 weeks ago
Power, speed and passes for wood, acrylic, metal, leather, glass and everything else people keep throwing at a laser.
Latest: Clear glass keeps chipping — what am I doing wrong? · 2 weeks ago
LP1 through LP5, LX1 and LX2, enclosures, rotaries, rollers and air assist. Mods, upgrades and comparisons.
Latest: Rotary vs versatile roller for tumblers at volume? · 2 weeks ago
LaserPecker Design Space, LightBurn, image prep, vector tracing and getting files from Illustrator to the bed.
Latest: Getting Illustrator files into LDS without the paths going weird · 3 weeks ago
No laser output, connection drops, ghosting, banding, burnt lenses. Post your symptoms and someone has seen it before.
Latest: Engraving is fine, cutting suddenly stopped going through — same file as last week · 2 weeks ago
Work in progress, design critique and 'has anyone tried…' threads. Finished builds belong in the Showcase.
Latest: Layered mandala: 5 layers, one sheet, how would you improve the depth? · 2 weeks ago
Pricing, licensing, markets and craft fairs, plus selling digital files here on the forum shop.
Latest: Selling files here: what makes a listing convert? · 2 weeks ago
Glasses and OD ratings, fume extraction, fire risk, materials that must never go near a laser. Read before you cut.
Latest: Read this first: materials you must never put in a laser · last week
Ideas, bugs and requests for the forum, the shop and the materials database.
Latest: Could the materials database filter by laser type as well as machine? · 2 weeks ago
I've been charging by "what feels right" and I know that's how you end up working for £4 an hour. How do you actually build a price? Machine time, material, design time, and what multiple?
If your finger joints are loose or your inlays rattle, you almost certainly haven't measured your kerf. How to measure it in five minutes: 1. Draw a 100mm × 20mm rectangle. Inside it draw te…
