Our local Trail Life Troop (Christian Alternative to Boy Scouts) is building a stair way for awards and such out of local flag stone. I was asked to mark one of the pieces.
I think it came out nicely.
Wow, that turned out great. I have a flagstone path in the yard. I may have to pull up a few before the Wisconsin snow and frost sets in during November. I won’t want to wait until Spring to try this.
Is it actually ‘etched’ as in layers of the stone blasted off by the laser? Or is it something like Thermark?
What kind of power laser is it? Oh, and how long did it take to actually laser it? Just a couple questions
Its a shallow etch…since flag stone is soft like sandstone. The color change is from melting the silica from what I understand. Hes going to put on a layer of urethane on top to weather better.
You’d probably be better off using thin river rocks. Thinner pieces of flag stone, that would fit in the GF, might be a bit brittle.
This particular piece was 3.5" thick and weighed 30+ lbs.
The layer of stain/oxide on the surface greatly increase the contrast, very nice!
I have some scrap multi-color slate I am anxious to work with. The colors, mostly shades of green come from mineral stain. Petroglyphs for the new age!