cvoinescu wrote:I thought the first time was a typo, but then you did it again. It's the "Buildlog.net 2.x Laser" (like the URL of this site), not "bulldog". (Sorry for being pedantic, that's just me.) The 2.x laser starts at 40 W. With a 500 mW laser, you can cut paper and card, and burn lines and images in wood, slowly -- but that would be a blue laser diode, not a far infrared carbon dioxide laser tube. With a 40 W laser, you can cut plywood and fairly thick acrylic, and engrave wood at a decent clip.
TLHarrell wrote:If you're doing Gothic 4 poster beds, the first machine I'd look into building would be a large format CNC lathe. You could turn all kinds of neat (and stupidly expensive) decorative posts, even in one piece!
Having a large format printer when doing hand built stuff is definitely worth keeping around if you have the space for it. Depending on the age you may or may not be able to get pens for it. You may end up having to cobble something together that will hold a more modern pen into the holder.
TLHarrell wrote:You could do much more than just rough the decorative parts in. It is entirely possible to do finish passes with a suitable cutter and barely have to hit them with some sandpaper to complete them for finishing. Sounds like for your woodwork it'd be good to go with a couple machines. One being an indexable lathe. With this you could fully 3D carve anything round.
If you would like to see some serious finish quality, check out this video. It's a 5 axis machine milling aluminum into a motorcycle helmet. It even includes a design on the surface done entirely by varying how the cutter runs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnIvhlKT7SY
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