I prototype and try out a DIY mesh laser bed

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Published 2021-04-16

Cutting out sharks with lasers on my NEJE 40W laser on a DIY mesh bed to see if there is any difference in the quality of the cut. So... making sharks with lasers with a laser.

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:23 Making the laser bed
0:51 Drawing the laser shark
1:27 Baseline
1:38 Set up laser for laser bed
1:45 cutting with the laser bed mesh
3:11 Results with paper
3:39 Trying Cardboard
3:50 Results with carboard
4:18 Trying Balsa
4:39 Results with balsa
5:25 Trying Acrylic
5:55 Results with Acrylic

Music:
Back at Noon - Elliot Holmes - www.epidemicsound.com/track/b3ynES3WgZ/
Haystack - Biddy Sullivan - www.epidemicsound.com/track/HSiITAxFhb/
Walking Dead - Wellmess - www.epidemicsound.com/track/a2Pjc9wAtL/

All Comments (7)

@2ksolar 4 months ago

Nice upgrade to the shark! Much better than ill-tempered sea bass for sure.
@akust 3 years ago

yea! Good comparison. So far the result is great!
@IronMan-yg4qw 2 years ago

try nail or thumb tack pointy beds. :)
@macrumpton 2 years ago

I think with a relatively low power laser you could probably use some window screen or hardware cloth metal grid. I tried using metal screen material with my 40w CO2 and it worked great until it got cooked in about 2 months of heavy use.
@bacsijancsi 3 years ago

You can also do a kind of bead of nails!!! Sticking nails onto a sheet of plywood or similar this is nice but quite complicated and small
@pXnEmerica 2 years ago

I'm learning towards a cookie cooling rack. ~$5 and found about easily locally.