First tries with a laser engraver

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Thanks to @Cwalker935 's thread from a few months ago, I grabbed myself a cheapo Laserpecker LP1, just for personalizing pens. Today I turned these (PSI Trimline and Victorian) for my sister and her hub, aka Nani and Zeus to their grandkids. I'm very pleased with how they turned out.

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They turned out really nice

I know there is a rule of thumb
about which side to put the names
on the pens, has some thing to do with
which what hand you write with

But a can't think of it right now

It may be in the library
 
They turned out really nice

I know there is a rule of thumb
about which side to put the names
on the pens, has some thing to do with
which what hand you write with

But a can't think of it right now

It may be in the library
I got both angles covered. 🤣 (quite by accident). Between the first one and the second one I forgot the image comes out upside down from the position I had the laser thingie in. I'm sure I'll forget again. If I had to guess, I'd say the Zeus pen is correct for right-handers, since the letters would be approximately correctly oriented if holding the pen in the right hand.
 
Which laser engraver did you get?
I've thought about getting one. It seems to have done a good job.
Pens look great.
Thanks! I got the cheapo Laserpecker LP1. The laser itself works great - all I wanted was to be able to burn text and simple clip art-type logos onto wood blanks, and it's perfectly adequate at that. My only complaint is the very flimsy tripod that comes with the basic unit - by itself it barely stands up. On any kind of smooth surface, it just sprawls out like Bambi on ice. I fixed that easy enough with a slab of plywood and three holes drilled for the tripod feet - no more sprawling Bambi. The Laserpecker designer app is easy enough to use - layout text, search its included clip art gallery, pull in images from your own library, and resize everything to fit on whatever you're engraving. I did one test on a piece of scrap, then everything else was live. My only boo-boo was orienting the Nani pen blank so it printed the wrong way from what I wanted. The Preview feature only shows a lighted rectangle outline of the area that will be engraved, so I just need to stay aware of the orientation before doing the final burn. Otherwise I'm really happy with how it all works. If/when this one wears out in my lifetime, I'll probably upgrade to the LP2. But at the rate I actually engrave anything, this one will probably outlive me.

Here's the latest one I did for my wife. (Those are paw prints after her name.)

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