I engraved a real piece of train track but had to use my fiber laser but thought you’d like to see it.
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Very nice engraving. I bet its really heavy too.
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Love it!
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That’s beautiful!
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Looks great!
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Cool. Now you can build an angled stand for it to sit on.
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Nice! Where does one purchase a piece of track? Get the thermite, you can weld it to something!
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Not sure. This one was something my grandfather gave to my dad over 30 years ago to use as an anvil. My dad asked me to engrave it after he sanded it down to shine it up.
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I am not that familiar with the raw results of fiber lasers. I am guessing that the laser, itself, can’t be used to get that shiny of a surface? Kind of like in the movies, when a piece of weathered metal gets cut by a super laser, the cut surface is shiny? So sanding would be required first, and then engraving?
Either way, very cool piece. My grandfather worked for the L&N Railroad for about 60 years.
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Yeah he told me he sanded it before he gave it to me so whether he sanded it or grind it down some other way idk lol. I then engraved it with the 100w Lumos Ultra.
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I´m not sure dad is going to continue using it as an anvil.
And as paperweights go, it might be a little too heavy.
However it makes a heck of a conversation piece, considering the history in the family.
Congratulations @wenning08 on a great engraving!
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I love this! My grandpa worked a fair amount of time laying railroad track. (Interesting story, he actually lost about 1/3 of one of his pinky fingers this way.)
Anyway, I love sentimental things like this!
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I don’t know how I missed this, but glad to see it now! That turned out beautiful! What a treasure!
When we lived in Carlin, NV, we had a track a block away from the house. We always loved listening to the trains coming by, especially during the winter, because we could hear them blowing their whistles from an area called Palisades, which was several miles away. And then, of course, the rumble. Even here we love listening to the trains, as we can hear when they’re coming through Bulls Gap (10 miles away) and through town (3 miles away), and further down the line.
We used to have several spikes, but no idea what happened to them. We had bought a bunch of rr ties for landscaping, and they had the spikes in them. All the spikes were stamped with the year they were used. I think the oldest we had was 1951. Never had a piece of the track though, although I have seem some pieces for sale before (don’t remember where), but they were much too long and heavy for us to pick up.
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