Animal tile engraving

[thelaserglade]

I finally got around to trying tile engraving and I am hooked. I can’t believe how cool this looks!

Anybody try framing tile? It seems this could make for some really cool hanging artwork.

[rvogt]

Both are great but i love that first one!!

[evansd2]

@thelaserglade

Anybody try framing tile?

So, a quick search yields:

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=tile%20frame

[advtrvlr]

Love them! What did you use to color the first one?

[thelaserglade]

I just used some permanent markers I have laying around.

[kelley1]

The dog is amazing; looks like a watercolor.

[RyanD]

Here was my quick attempt messing around one day. Never hung it up but it certainly could be done!

Photo is a little off center but you get the idea.

[dddphotoz]

Do you care to share what setting you used?

[thelaserglade]

I’ve been using speed of 600, full power, 450 LPI. Here is another one I did today - my kids had a blast coloring it!

[davidgal2]

Beautiful colors. Bet that took a while to color.

[joyofunique]

I love your work! I did want to ask you what setting you use on your GF to make these? Is there a material that you use in the settings or do you click on the unknown material? If so, what settings do you type in? I tried to score one of the tiles and the machine would move but no lasering was going on. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[thelaserglade]

I’ve been using speed of 600, full power, 450 LPI. I keep it on unknown material.

[thelaserglade]

Now my kids are treating my glowforge as though it’s a coloring book manufacturing machine

[djfb]

Wow! The kids did a great job! (oh, and so did you )

[sunnywillow68]

So you are not doing the Norton method correct ? When you use the permanent marker do you have to be careful when coloring in the lines ? Does it stain the tile ?

[beerfaced]

The Norton white tile method will only give you shades of grey.