Just trying to get this down right. Mr. Johnson is a civilian that just started working for the brigade. I had to show him what airframe is the best, because he can't seem to tell the helicopters apart! This is cocobolo on a chrome slimline with Hutt polish.
A practice pen
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Aces-High
Member
Nice, turned out well.
OZturner
Member
Nice Cocobolo Slimline Rachel.
Excellent Laser Etching,
Great Work.
Congratulations,
Brian.
Excellent Laser Etching,
Great Work.
Congratulations,
Brian.
MillerTurnings
Member
Nice detail on helicopter. Is this on the mini laser?
Yes, it's on the little neje/metek 1500 laser. It works really well!
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Burb
Member
Very nice. I have the 1000 mW NEJE and I have issues with getting crisp edges on my engravings.
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elyk864
Member
Are you using vectored images. They have crisp lines.
This may explain it better. https://vector-conversions.com/vectorizing/raster_vs_vector.html
All I am doing is making the image in PowerPoint, grouping the image and text and then saving it in paint as a jpg. Then I'll just drag and drop it into the program that came with the neje. Also, I ensure that the laser is focused really well each time I use it. It's not high tech, but it seems to be working really well.
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leehljp
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Nice work! Cocobolo? That looks much like zebra wood too.
Looks really nice! I have a Neje too, but really haven't played with it much -- your pen is inspiring me to give it a try. Also, I could be wrong, but the wood looks more like bocote to me than cocobolo, but either way it is really pretty.
Burb
Member
Not likely. I don't have the ability to create them. Most of my stuff is done in MS Word, then I snip & save it as an image. I try to make it larger so that the NEJE software shrinks to size for maximum sizing.
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The board underneath is actually zebrawood! The cocobolo came from one of my purchases here on the forum. Probably from Alton or Joe. Goodness, I give them a lot of my money. Lol!
So...I went back to see exactly where I got these from,(it was Alton) and realized that I totally mislabeled and incorrectly identified the wood!! Ugh. Such a newb. It's actually bocote.