Services
We can offer a range of services, depending on each customer's own level of experience with laser cutting:
- Simple cut & engrave
- Cutting and engraving of a customer's own ready-designed CAD files, on their choice of standard materials.
- Customer-supplied materials
- If you have a particular material in mind, such as gasket sheets, particular grades of plywood or specialist art papers, then we can cut that too.
- Engraving
- With an image file such as a .JPG, or even a paper scan, we can convert that to the CNC files needed to engrave it.
- Design and cut
- No CAD (Computer Aided Design) experience? We can handle the CAD aspect for
you too.
- This includes CAD from scratch, such as a pencil sketch, or converting existing mechanical CAD files for use with a laser.
- Ready-made products
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- Our steampunk-themed range of decorations and accesories is available under our other brand of Atelier Fabry-Pérot.
These are available through our Etsy shop , also through a variety of events, mostly in Wales and the South West of England.
- Our steampunk-themed range of decorations and accesories is available under our other brand of Atelier Fabry-Pérot.
Cutting and Engraving
Our laser performs three basic types of cut:
Children's toy Jumping Jack, in 3mm MDF.
Profile cutting and line engraving.
- Cutting
- The laser is at full power, then moves to cut out shapes.
- Line engraving
- At reduced power, the laser burns grooves or blackened lines. Several different depths can be cut on one piece.
- Raster engraving
- A photograph or other image is engraved onto the surface.
Mermaid
Raster cutting on ceramic tile, with a gold acrylic infill afterwards.
Materials
We can offer these across a range of materials, primarily sheet wood and plastics. Some materials, such as glass and stone, will surface engrave but not cut.
For a material to work (very broadly), it has to be something that will burn, but without killing either us or the laser when it does so.