10 quick tips for laser engraving photos on wood

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Published 2023-07-18
In this video Im going to give you my top 10 quick tips to getting better laser photo engravings on wood. Wood is a notoriously temperamental material to engrave photos on and I hope these tips can help improve your work!

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6" x 8" Basswood: geni.us/pHdxn
8" x 8" Baltic Birch Plywood: geni.us/ilsBs4X

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All Comments (21)
  • @chrismwhitlow
    Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally somebody who will just simply tell how it's done instead of jabbering on about any and all things that aren't necessary. Your tips in this video really made the difference with the project I'm working on.
  • @SerenaSkyy
    Thank you for the straight to the point and detailed explanations! I love it. You'll be my go-to from now on! ✌️
  • @AlsterJW
    Excellent and informative - have been looking for this kind of general knowledge for a bit! Thanks!
  • @loribrooks6736
    I've watched so many videos on how to laser engrave images and they all confused me or weren't helpful. This video is EXACTLY what I needed .. thank you so much! I'm off to run some test engravings now... Appreciate your videos!
  • @nickpantuso1062
    Great tips! Really helped me take the photo pieces from good to great!
  • Thank you for the video just what I was looking for so I subscribed to your channel. Hope you have more like this.
  • @MystieK_
    straight to the point. Thumbs up and thank you
  • Awesome job on your video and channel. Thank you for these great tips! Please talk about how to avoid banding!!!
  • @azizqassim3883
    Thank you very much for this video. it is very helpful
  • Great set of tips. I stumbled across your channel and now you've got a new subscriber. Going to have to do some binging tomorrow.
  • @JoeMakes
    Bro, you are awesome! SO many solid pieces of info here and your other videos. Glad I subbed. Now stop making my content look so bad 😂
  • @hbpgames7592
    For adding air assist I highly recommend California Air Tools compressors. I have been using their 8-gallon version its super quiet doesn't annoy me with loud machine noise and definitely keeps up with both my C02 laser and diodes at the same time.