More bottle stoppers

They look great… nice work!

-- "What do you mean, 'Give me some wild cherry gall?' What do you think, this stuff grows on trees or something?"

nice, a never ending look to stoppers

-- Dick, Malvern Ohio - my biggest fear is that when I die, my wife sells my toys for what I told her I paid for them

all real nice stoppers FGT.

-- working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

Love that emblem lasered onto the stopper concept… gives one another reason to drink… more empties to display stoppers.

It took me a few stoppers to get my emblem centered. It appears the laser center is slightly different then the bit center, then learning how to center the emblem itself into the stopper.
- FrenchGoattoys

No idea of your laser setup/capabilities or software used, however, this is how I would have approached the engraving job.

Make a 2×2x”imbed depth” block of wood to hold the stopper… design the engrave of the logo centered on a 2×2 (red bordered “page”),

move the block to the corner of the laser (0,0)... centre the laser over the perimeter of the block (0,0),

print!

If lasering a laminate disc… make a 2×2 block to hold the disc in the centre using blocks perimeter as the origin.

-- If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

Nice job !

-- AJ

Fantastic…so cool!

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

LBD

I have a Next Wave Piranaha and use Vcarve as its software. The laser is a 2w module that attaches to the router just as the bit does. So, I can’t cut with the laser so I have to switch to a bit. My Z is only 3 inches and most of it is taken up by laser housing. Ergo, I can’t burn on anything with much height to it.

Because I can’t actually see where the center of the laser is, I center it by measuring from the laser housing.

I then hit the center button to hold center. Theoretically, when I change to the bit, it should have the same center; but it doesn’t.

It took me a bit longer to figure out the problem then it should have. I kept thinking my vectors were off.

Finally, after establishing center, I ran a laser test which gave me the little burn mark above the center X.

I switched to the bit and it was almost on the center X.

If you look at the first two logo medallions, you can see the problem the off center was causing.

Centering the medallion in the stopper was self induced. I just kept missing center ever so slightly, which seemed to magnify itself when lathed.

I fixed that problem by buying a second chuck and drilling after it was round and finding center.

I fixed the center disparity between the laser and the bit by moving the bit to the laser mark and re-entering center. The medallions came out better.

Ps. It is still snowing

-- KJ, Spokane, WA.: Don’t count the days; make the days count.

Phew… lot of “mucking about”... I now feel spoilt and it kinda makes me somewhat more complacent in spending those extra (big) shekels for my laser.

Nevertheless that laser swapout sounds interesting.

-- If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD