I’m new here and have looked around a bit to see if anyone had made up any lists of materials that should NEVER be used in your Glowforge? Is there such a list and I’ve just not looked in the right place? And if there isn’t a list, any chance one could be created?
I have some leather pieces that are already tanned with oil, but I don’t know what type of oil. Is it okay to use this? I think it said somewhere that the leather is buffalo.
Thanks for the response. I had a laser prior to my Glowforge, but I knew nothing about it and didn’t do too much with it because I didn’t have specific guidelines and it was a diode laser, which I don’t have enough knowledge to know or understand the difference between the diode laser and Glowforge. Maybe some people here can start a list that could be a quick reference for those of us that aren’t very experienced.
It doesn’t. Scroll down to the sections titled “What if I’m not certain whether my materials are laser-compatible?” and “Using unidentified material in your Glowforge”.