iPhone 7 Plus engraving

monosyth · January 22, 2018, 5:47am

This was easy! manual depth of 0.28 and Full Power engrave. Love it. Now to think of a design for my MacBook Pro.

Jules · January 22, 2018, 5:52am

Awesome!

bkressley · January 22, 2018, 12:58pm

All phones should have that on them I would think.

cgilchrist7 · January 22, 2018, 11:23pm

Same setting I did I want to do a iPhone x but scared I might break it

monosyth · January 22, 2018, 11:32pm

I know… This was my friends iPhone7, I want to do my X too, but I guess I should test some glass engraving first! I’ll probably do it!

mhumphrey · January 23, 2018, 2:49am

It also kills your resale value.

jamesdhatch · January 23, 2018, 4:13am

I haven’t sold a single piece of outdated electronics in my life

Repurpose!

mike10 · January 23, 2018, 5:22am

That looks really sharp. Do you mind sharing the feedrate and lpi?

Thanks!

monosyth · January 23, 2018, 5:45am

Just the defaults… the Glowforge can’t cut through any type of metal, so it just takes the coating off.

monosyth · January 23, 2018, 5:46am

I own a $5k laser cutter… this isn’t a concern for me. Tax write offs…

raymondking32 · January 23, 2018, 9:25am

I’m curious what it would do to the underlying paint layer on the iPhone X, 8 , and 8 plus. Not to mention on the other phones being made these days. If it passes through the glass too easily it wouldn’t be as big a deal on the tops and bottoms, but my concern would be the wireless charging coil in the center of the X. Also would be kind of cool to see what it would do to that paint layer if it does go through, but definitely say goodbye to your warranty, and from the videos I’ve seen the glue Apple has gone with to adhere the back panel is very unforgiving. Not trying to discourage anyone from doing it, though!

bkressley · January 23, 2018, 2:33pm

Same here, I still have serial port cards, Palm Pilots, etc…

erclin · April 6, 2018, 3:41am

Here’s my first attempt at engraving an iPhone 6. The first pass didn’t seem dark enough so I made a second pass at lower power. Low tack tape used. I think just one pass at 1000/100 would have worked just as well.

First pass: 1000/85, 270 lpi
Second pass: 1000/75, 270 lpi

Jules · April 6, 2018, 3:45am

Looks great!

alindblade · April 6, 2018, 4:01am

Too cool! Wish mine wasn’t rented.

instabuzz · August 29, 2019, 2:47am

Hey guys I have an iPhone X I want to try. My only concern is the laser bouncing up off the glass is that a thing? I’m new here so every single thing I have that can be engraved will be lol I just don’t wanna break anything glowforge wise

primal_healer · August 29, 2019, 5:30am

Turned out great I’ve been trying to build up the courage to do this to my phone hehe