2015 Sponsor Panel: Bit Buckets 4183

[z_beeblebrox]

http://imgur.com/a/6cUHQ

Our longest laser job ever at 97 minutes.

To make this, we covered a plywood sheet in masking tape, engraved logos on the laser cutter, spray painted it black, and removed the mask.

More robot information to come shortly...

[Christopher149]

That is way cool. I assume it holds up really well?

This might be one of the best looking wood robots I've ever seen.

[snoman]

cool what kind of laser and material are you using?

[Sperkowsky]

Wow wish we had a laser cutter. We barely have a drill so I guess we are pretty far away lol but seriously that looks sick

[z_beeblebrox]

cool what kind of laser and material are you using?

Trotec Speedy 300. 1/4" Baltic birch plywood.

[The_ShamWOW88]

That looks awesome!

[MrBasse]

Good use of a mask. That looks great!

A useful product for this is a vinyl sheet of masking material like these: Cutter Pros (http://www.cutterpros.com/Paint-Mask-And-Sandmask.htm). You can vector cut the logos and then weed the parts out you don't want. That would save a little time on engraving.

Another cool way to do that is to engrave the wood and then paint the whole thing. Then run the whole panel through a surface sander or use a palm sander to remove the paint from the non engraved areas. Where you engraved will be recessed so the paint will remain in those areas.