"You have acquired a "monster"... by monster I mean the opportunities you have extended to your workshop adventures.
When you said cutter? Appreciate you are still playing, but what is it's expected cutting thickness?"
This is just a 5w output laser. The manufacturer says it can cut up to 15mm thick. I'm sure that means with multiple passes if you want a clean cut without burning the work piece. But I've used a big commercial C02 laser and have had nearly the same thickness limitation, but with a higher speed and also a much larger kerf. Primarily, I bought this to cut templates for my instrument designs, which is usually 1/8" thick birch plywood. This is a 15mm solid wood sample that came with the machine. I think it's Basswood. The real test will be when I try to cut out a fretboard fro 3/16" African Blackwood.
