So… in engraving over the Glowforge sticker on the wood veneer, the sticker prevented proper engraving. The arrow shows where the sticker was. It’s such a huge sticker, it’s rather a waste. Is there anything I could do, other than peeling off that sticker before lasering?
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Yes, just engrave from the back side.
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Hi there! The back side of the veneer is the sticker, so I can’t engrave on that side.
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Oh, yeah - the self-adhesive one. OK, then, yes, you’d have to carefully remove those awful stickers. I despise them. They could so easily have made them easy to remove..
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Besides removing the sticker, the point thing I can think to do is do 2 passes, but that probably won’t be good for the part that isn’t covered in a sticker.
It might be a little bit off, but I’d make a jig and put this sticker back in and do another pass. Maybe cover up the side that was already engraved properly with two layers of masking, just to try and even it out.
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It’s not going to be perfect. Not even close.
This is a loss. Toss it and move on, the current price for veneer is 5.25 cents per square inch. This looks like it’s about 30-50 cents of material. I would spend no more time on this, it’s not worth it.
I’m always having to remind myself of the actual cost like this. I forget time and time again how little material costs versus the value of my time.
That said you could make the case that proofgrade settings on pg materials are guaranteed and that you deserve compensation for the materials. I don’t know if you’d be successful in the argument but it might work.
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As you get older that becomes much clearer.
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while you are completely right, I had a basic that would line up perfectly every time something like this happened, so I got used to saving things quickly.
However…my pro…I can’t do this. I usually peel the giant sticker off any proofgrades before I start an engrave. The big stickers come off easily compared to the old small ones.
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Alignment isn’t the issue (for me) - it’s the inconsistency in the stickers. I actually avoid buying GF materials when practical because of them.
They are marketing to crafters that can’t even figure out how to select the correct material in the UI.
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The veneer I bought recently is a special wood from Yakushima island. You need a special government permit to harvest the wood, even then, they can only collect from fallen trees because the wood is sacred and the trees can’t be cut down. I can’t think of anything to use it on.
I actually really liked glowforge veneer because it was a little thicker than any veneer I bought at the lumber store and prepped myself. Engraving the lumberyard stuff took so much testing because it would literally burn all the way through on veneer settings. But the shop was out of stock on the proofgrade veneer for like 2 years, so I learned to do without it.
I noticed I had a ton of autocorrect typos from my phone; I think I got them all fixed.
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So true! I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t overlooking something!
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