Color Engraving Stainless Steel With a Hobby Diode Laser

This is an interesting (non-Glowforge) experiment:

TL;DW: Experiments marking stainless steel with different colors by varying the power level to control the amount of heat applied.

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That’s very interesting.

I wonder if you could pull it off with the glowforge, seems like you should be able to. Just need really thin stainless.

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I was wondering the same thing.

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Interesting. Thanks.

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