I live right next door to Moody AFB and I make gau-8 and gau-2 pen holders with my 3d printers. Once the find out I have a Glowforge, everyone will ask can you make this or that. So I just want one step ahead.
You can buy them pre-anodized in bulk, in multiple colors, etching them is just like etching any other non-PG material, plenty of examples with the settings posted in the “beyond the manual” section. You’d probably want a template from PG draftboard or similar, so you could quickly throw a dozen or more onto the bed for repeatable, accurate alignment…
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I’ve done both anodized as well as painted. Pretty straight forward.
These are for my son’s Army unit as part of welcome home gifts…they get back in a few weeks from a year long deployment. 
These were the painted ones from chewbarkas.
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Very thoughtful… BZ!
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Fellow GA forger! I’m down at Robins AFB. I use the premade Anodized ones from Chewbarkas.
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Thank you Sir. That’s what I needed.
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