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Trying Out My First Laser Engraver = FUN

2017-02-09
hey everybody glad to see you guys back here once again on the challenge I know many times you guys have to complain you guys go my god it's a cheap Chinese crap product but I'm just going to be honest to you a lot of the products that you use you're probably unaware of actually come from China because they just make a hell of a lot of stuff now we worked in the past with gearbest we've been able to get some products from them for review and once again we were able to obtain something from them that they paid us no money for this whatsoever but when I saw this little laser engraver I was just like oh my god and a five laser engraver this thing can do cool projects for us here at Tech tomorrow and if you guys don't know it me and a friend of mine Chris have started up a guitar company and that's called Icarus guitar works and we're doing cool stuff we're going to start making own guitar parts and to doing this we're here for a friend of ours but the bottom line is though this machine comes in the market at about 400 bucks we have a discount coupon that you guys can use to get the price down and if you're looking for something that can can can do basically no engraving it's not I don't know if it's really true engraved gets laser engraving so I consider kind of like you know burning or just cutting out not quite engraving to me the term engraving means you got like a metal thing and you're engraving it out but I guess that's just semantics so we got this machine to do a few different things to do the logos on our guitars to also do some custom sub 4 pcs like on plastic windows and stuff we do the engraving and put the lights inside the window will be doing projects like that in the future but today we got to hold this 5500 million watt laser thing and it is just really cool we've had a lot of fun with it now when you first get the kit it does come in a box in a bunch of pieces and you have to assemble it so it's pretty much a kit but it's not very hard to assemble we actually assemble the kit and probably think it took us less than 30 minutes to get it all put together the one thing you really have to I think consider more than anything else is getting the setup perfect because getting the setup perfect make sure that you ensure that every time you're doing your cut or your laser burn is going to be perfect now we were actually able to do some modifications you'll see we get into it into our project today we were actually able to make it higher than it actually was because at first it was too low we couldn't get any guitar bodies any guitar necks or any of that stuff underneath it so we had to mod it out so real quick some warning when you buy the laser it comes with a pair of goggles now when Chris came to film the video for some reason no green goggles but when you buy it it does come to these nice green goggles to block out the light because you do not want to look directly at this laser whatsoever it could pretty much probably blinds you I mean it's really that bright so what that says though let's real quick let's jump in and let's see us taking our project on and doing three different types of things on wood I think I think it's pretty cool because we did like a pen up girl we did Darth Vader and then we'll get to it my friend jesse is just a complete Raiders freak thanks this but let's jump in real quick and let's check out as we set up and run this laser doing our project for today which is doing engraving on a guitar so check this out folks before you do anything at all with your laser you want to make sure that you have it set up on some type of environment where it's not going to burn what's underneath like we actually use one of our really nice tables but we didn't want to actually you know engrave on the table so you have to make sure that you set something down first off to make sure that you're protecting what you're working on and if you're looking at this video right now and going hey what's that sad bag for that sandbag say help keep the machine in place and help balance the weight of it so that when you're doing your laser engraving nothing gets out of sync getting this set up doesn't take very long at all you just have to place your item inside the area and like I said before you guys can see we had to use feet to actually raise it up to make sure it could take our guitar necks or our wood but after that it's a pretty simple process you have to install the bend box software the bin box software is pretty easy to use now there are some other software programs that you can buy out there that cost about 40 dollars that will give you much more variance but what we're doing today this actually worked just fine because we're doing simple images now the first image that we did you guys can see this is the pin-up girl it's pretty easy to do not too much stuff to worry about whatsoever as far as setup is this once you align the laser and you know where the laser is going to go you just hit a button and it begins the cut then after that we decided to try a little something different we're all incredibly crazy Star Wars freaks so we're like alright well what the heck what about Darth Vader hopefully Disney doesn't sue the currently we're building a guitar for my friend Jesse hunter he wanted to be the Raiders Telly because like I said he's a frickin Raiders fan so we actually took the Raiders logo first by the way we tried all of these designs on scrap pieces of wood so we made sure that nothing got ruined but once we knew that everything was actually set and we'd go ahead and put that expensive guitar neck we went ahead and began now you guys can see this came out very very well I'm sure we'll have some close-ups as welders as well but this is very very nice it only takes a few minutes to do and when my friend Jesse saw the neck he was like son because he the thought was so badass so I mean it's the thing is a lot of fun there's just so much more that you can do with it so for wood you guys can see it does the engraving pretty nicely now you can't do any type of cutting at all with this laser it's just not powerful enough I looked into some other serious lasers you're talking a serious investment forty to fifty thousand dollars so for something that's under $400 that you can do in your house this is a lot of fun our next project involves taking a plastic window out of one of our PC cases putting an engraving a bit of P ot and then lighting that up so it looks really really bitchin but at the end of the day folks I have to say now maybe it's not the most expert level pro level thing in the world but for what we're going to do it's going to be pretty awesome we have a logo being made for our efforts guitar company and we want to basically get it on the neck and then burn our logo onto the top of the neck and every single one that we do is our trademark and plus the very fact that every one is just slightly different it pretty much makes every one that we do unique in its own special way so I don't know what you guys think I want to hear you guys comments down below this is kind of somewhere in between hobbyists and you know something really you know professional style but for the price I got to say I like it a lot today's project was really fun thanks a lot to Chris as you just everybody who was involved even persons a girlfriend who kept saying what are you guys doing so she helped us along as well so a lot of people are involved is having a lot with this project many more coming up here on the channel like usual down below like button we'll have a link to this and we also have a discount coupon codes you can get this thing for any cheaper but for me for what we want to do with it I think it's absolutely perfect what I like to have something bigger more badass of course I would but we got to start off you know crawling then walking and then we'll get up and run and get something better so I'm at work you guys been watching teka tomorrow off to do some more burnin
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