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thirdeye
03-15-2010, 07:30 PM
Just having some fun with the laser. So what do you think guys?
Ru4scuba?
03-15-2010, 07:34 PM
I think this has some serious promise Ray!
luvmysuper
03-15-2010, 07:42 PM
:w00t::001_tt1:

Me Like!!!!
JonnyAngel
03-15-2010, 07:48 PM
Really a nice job! Keep it up!
netsurfr
03-16-2010, 08:29 AM
Sweeeeeeeet!
richmondesi
03-16-2010, 08:38 AM
Beautiful, Sir... Looks great!
jkh
03-16-2010, 08:41 AM
Ray, did you cut and shape those with the laser? Or, did you just cut them with the laser and then shape them with some other method?

Looking good!
texbilly
03-16-2010, 08:44 AM
Excellent, Ray. Love the flowing butterscotch color.
Aquanin
03-16-2010, 10:13 AM
Looks awesome, but I have to ask, how are you going to account for flex? Recon stone is very brittle. I have snapped it in half with hardly any effort.
thirdeye
03-16-2010, 11:40 AM
Ray, did you cut and shape those with the laser? Or, did you just cut them with the laser and then shape them with some other method?

Looking good!

I cut the blank pattern on the laser and then sanded them out with my belt bench belt and disc sander. Of coarse I finished by hand the bussed.


Looks awesome, but I have to ask, how are you going to account for flex? Recon stone is very brittle. I have snapped it in half with hardly any effort.

Good question, if your using 85/15 recon they will snap in a heartbeat. These are 50/50 and have a considerable amount of flex and are much lighter that the 85/15.

And thanks fellows. Off to cut some snake skin now.
Aquanin
03-16-2010, 12:07 PM
Ohh sweet. Sounds awesome!!
jkh
03-16-2010, 01:53 PM
I cut the blank pattern on the laser and then sanded them out with my belt bench belt and disc sander. Of coarse I finished by hand the bussed.

I figured, but I didn't want to under estimate the power of your laser beam (said in best Dr. Evil voice).
thirdeye
03-16-2010, 02:39 PM
I figured, but I didn't want to under estimate the power of your laser beam (said in best Dr. Evil voice).

Actually, If I made the pattern incrementally smaller and smaller I could feasibly create a radius edge but it is quicker and less expensive to use a belt.

The speed is in the cutting. It took a whole 35 or so seconds to cut the two scales out.