MacBook Etching

Jules · February 9, 2018, 4:29pm

Sweet! I like the thinner lines too.

spencer1 · February 9, 2018, 5:55pm

lwaymire · February 23, 2018, 4:38pm

I etched my MacBook last night using a calculator (linked below) from another thread. I think it worked pretty well. It turned out a little pixelated, but I like it. I used 75 power, 1000 speed. Not sure what the LPI were.

Tray Removed - Calculator - Updated?

Jules · February 23, 2018, 4:49pm

Oh nice! Like the leaf motif!

julybighouse · February 23, 2018, 6:26pm

I moved off of this topic and it wasn’t until three threads later that it hit me that you were rhyming… leaf motif

I had to come back and comment just cause it took me THAT long to get why I thought your response was neat.

Jules · February 23, 2018, 6:27pm

I’m just glad someone caught it!

JeremyNielsen · February 24, 2018, 2:34am

I laughed at it too.

Majik · May 12, 2018, 4:27am

My first cut - on a piece of an old MacBook. I’m pretty happy with it

bridget · May 12, 2018, 7:57am

I’m just getting a 404 on your link.

Majik · May 12, 2018, 3:14pm

Just fixed the broken link

pedro1 · January 10, 2019, 6:39am

I’m trying to do a Macbook Air, so am I supposed to remove everything and make my own base so this will work? I tried one pass set to HD Engrave and nothing happened. just a few very light brown areas from the text I put there.

Xabbess · January 10, 2019, 6:58am

Hello. Your best option for finding out more about doing that would be to do a search here on the forum. I just typed in “engraving macbook” and several posts came up. Best of luck to you.

pedro1 · January 10, 2019, 7:10am

Thanks, Im new to GF community. Just got my machine and there is so much i’d like to do.

Xabbess · January 10, 2019, 6:01pm

Well, welcome to the forum. I think you’ll love it here. Looking forward to seeing your projects!

moysemurray · February 23, 2019, 7:57pm

I etched on a chromebook, there was a bad smell, the chromebook warped slightly, and the oil from my fingers affected the etch but overall it looked pretty nice

chris.majewski · February 28, 2019, 6:45pm

… we lost a knight, a few regiment of archers and thousands of peasants starved but it was a successful campaign overall.

I like how you think, and that looks better than pretty nice.

moysemurray · February 28, 2019, 11:05pm

moysemurray · March 3, 2019, 1:01pm

Blockquote … we lost a knight, a few regiment of archers and thousands of peasants starved but it was a successful campaign overall.

hilarious

alykasa · March 8, 2019, 7:58pm

Omg I sooooo want to do this but it’s so scary!!

ruralcoder · September 7, 2019, 8:18am

I really love what you guys have done.

I want to attempt etching my mac book pro as well.

How do you overcome the 12.7 mm material thickness?
and what focus height did you use? Did you remove the honeycomb? How do you then calculate thinkness+focus?

Thanks,

Stephen