Steel Memorial Plaque

glacialmonkey · August 10, 2020, 5:40am

Hey all,

So it’s been a long time since I got my Glowforge going. Teaching math became a twice full-time job once the pandemic sent us all home. I had a coworker who wanted a memorial plaque for her dog that died a few years ago. She wanted it on steel. I told her that I was of course up for the challenge.

It started here:

I coated it with three coats of Dry Moly Lube, letting it dry for 20 minutes in between each one and engraved it:

Cleaned it up afterwards:

First attempt at something like this, and that was the first go. No second take needed I don’t think.

acoshi · August 10, 2020, 6:35am

What did you do to clean it up?

glacialmonkey · August 10, 2020, 6:43am

it cleans up nice and easy with rubbing alcohol

cynd11 · August 10, 2020, 11:12am

Ohmygosh, it came out fantastic! I didn’t know you could get such nice photo result with moly lube.

Jules · August 10, 2020, 12:50pm

Nice results!

jamesdhatch · August 10, 2020, 2:11pm

I think you’re right. That’s a great result with Dry Moly. Just super.

davidgal2 · August 10, 2020, 4:19pm

Beautiful job and a great tribute to his dog.

Thumper369 · August 10, 2020, 4:23pm

Inspired. you see so many posts where the stuff does not come out well, I have wanted to try but have not. Now I just need an equally important project.

ptodd · August 10, 2020, 6:06pm

Miss Abigail was adorable, and your work exceptional!

gooddog · August 10, 2020, 8:41pm

Very nice work! The image came out great!

eric.hartdegen · August 10, 2020, 10:17pm

That turned out great!

n_dawson · August 10, 2020, 10:20pm

WOW! Most excellent.

ovm.steve · August 11, 2020, 2:46am

Fantastic job.

letstalk · August 15, 2020, 3:05pm

This is beautiful! Great job! Two questions - sorry - where did you get the piece that you engraved on and how long did it take to engrave? Thank you!

glacialmonkey · August 15, 2020, 3:32pm

Thanks all for the encouragement. She said it was gorgeous and was very happy with it.

glacialmonkey · August 15, 2020, 3:41pm

Her husband actually got the metal where he works. As far as how long it took, I went with a pretty high DPI, so it took a little over 2 hours to get it done. I only did one pass. I had a second one that I was going to repeat it with 2 passes and a slightly faster speed if it came out badly.