Fingerprint Pendant

[btboone]

Here's something a little different. A titanium pendant with a custom fingerprint lasered in. It looks pretty convincing in person.

 

[seamus7227]

rock on! that looks cool!

Do you have a fingerprint scanner? or is it a random print

 

[philb]

That's pretty cool!

Especially if you can scan individual prints in!

 

[btboone]

That is made from a photograph of a fingerprint taken with an ink pad on photo paper. I sometimes need to enhance contrast in Photoshop to make it clean enough to be converted to a vector file that feeds the laser. That is burned at full power and several passes to get the depth we want. The plate starts as a round disc cut from solid bar on the lathe and gets flattened and elongated with my rollers. After lasering, the plate is sanded to flush to remove some of the dross the laser kicked up, and then it is drilled and brushed. It's a surprisingly cool look and should be very permanent.

 

[Mapster]

Very cool!

 

[Haynie]

So, if someone sent you some finger prints you could do this for them?

 

[btboone]

Yes. Every one custom.

 

[Haynie]

That is cool.

 

[Fireengines]

This is not new technology. I have my father's dog tags from WWII and on the front is name and other information. On the back is a impression of his right index finger.

 

[btboone]

But I bet they didn't use a YAG laser back then. :wink: The marks are pretty deep.

 

[Fireengines]

No YAG laser back in 1942. However, you can still see the thumb print.

Great idea though.

 

[el_d]

Pretty cool Bruce,

I need to start squirling away my pennies so I can buy a YAG laser ...... for my Grandkids. :biggrin:

 

[George Watkins]

That looks great-could you do a double sided one? if so maybe you could do a pair of pendants- his and hers- kinda of like a mizpha coin if you've heard of one- they would make great wedding /engagement gifts etc

 

[Glenn McCullough]

Bruce,
Thatis way cool,nomatter how old the technology is...I am sure it is alot cleaner today. And these are on your site with a price?

 

[btboone]

I do have them on my site now in the Laser Inlay Series. I can do double sided ones or add text or whatever as well.

 

[philb]

I do have them on my site now in the Laser Inlay Series. I can do double sided ones or add text or whatever as well.

Where are they on your site, couldn't find them! found plenty of other great rings though!!

 

[btboone]

In the Laser Inlay Series, at the bottom right of the green background pictures.