Once in a while we get an opportunity to do something new and out of our wheelhouse.  This was one of those days.   Although we have had a CNC for a few years we rarely get a chance to play around and do something different.  Today we discovered that we had some success making some Pine Disk Signs.  This one happens to be 24" in diameter and 1" thick.  We disigned this on our LXI software and used our XCarve CNC to route out the wording to about 1/8" deep.   After routing and lightly sanding we hand painted it with acrylic water based paint.    ..read more

Its been a long time since my last post.  So sorry about that to those who were in the habit of reading our Blog.    We have not lasered many firearms but here are two, 22 Henry Firearms we had an opportunity to engrave on.    In this instance we ended up doing a light walnut inlay on the dark walnut stock.   The contrast in color really helps the engraving really pop and look nice. The hardest part of the process was lining up the stock just right.  We were impressed that our laser could acomplish such a classy looking inlay with such amazing fine deta ..read more

This past month we got the opportunity Laser engrave onto a Golden Boy .22 rifle stock.  To be honest our shop does not do much laser engraving onto guns but this job was for a long time customer who new exactly what they wanted and we felt comfortable doing the work.  The pictures honestly don't do the job much justice but believe me when I say it turned out fantastic.     One of the biggest hurdles we had was laying out the artwork  on the the stock itself.   With the power of the internet we were able to find a DXF outlive of the stock and download it to our software.   This was a huge hel ..read more

A big part of our Laser engraving business is doing work on leather.   If the project is done correctly you can really get outstanding looks when laser engraving leather.  One of the biggest hurdles however when working with leather is educating the customer as to what the engraving will look like.   (I would like to say that the picture below was taken while doing a google image search so it is not our photo.  I would love to give credit to the photographer but we were unable to find the original source.)    This picture shows both laser engraving on leather as well as leather embossing.  Th ..read more

This past month here at MBJD Laser we have been working with a new piece of equipment.  We recently purchased an X Carve CNC from Inventables and this is one of our first projects.   What makes this so much fun is that we utilized our Zing Laser as well as our new CNC to create these new banks. The possibilities are endless as we now have some new capabilities at our fingertips.  Each bank is made of 3 pieces of 1/8" plywood, 2 pieces of mdf, and 1 piece of acrylic ..read more

Its hard to believe it is 2019.  For those just joining this blog, welcome.  For those who continue to come back we hope you continue to find our posts interesting, and informative.  First we want to say we are sorry for not posting as often here recently.  This past Christmas season had us working crazy hours to get out our orders out and our Blog Posts were lacking. To start off 2019 we wanted to post some pictures of a project that we are very proud of here at MBJD Laser.  We got the opportunity to work with a local aircraft manufacturing company in Wichita, Kansas to get a customer a spec ..read more

Today was a great day at MBJD Laser.  We received an email from a customer who bought some of our Letter Banks as Christmas gifts.  We always enjoy seeing our customers put our products to good use.  The greatest part of all is seeing their smiling faces.   One thing we have learned is every year it seems to be a new product that takes off or something out of the ordinary that people buy as Christmas gifts and this year it was the banks.  It really kind of took us off guard.   We are already starting to incorporate new ideas for next year ..read more

Trophies, Awards, and Medals are a big part of our business but at times they can be a challenge because of the many varieties that are available.   Here at MBJD Laser we pride ourselves in getting you what you want.   From sports trophies and medals, to Spelling B, Drama and Debate we supply just about anything you can think of.  If your shop is not currently doing awards and medals I would challenge you to consider it because it is a large portion of what we do and we have found it to be rather enjoyable. Below are a few samples of some awards we have supplied recently ..read more

So here is a project we have been working on for a while.  (Letter Banks)  We got the idea as we were shopping on Etsy.  We saw similar banks that another person was selling and we thought that we could make these using our laser.    These banks are made of 4 different things.  1/8" Birch Plywood, 1/8" Clear Cast Acrylic, Glue, and Screws.   They take a bit of time to cut out the layers to be glued together and a bit more time to assemble but they have a really cool look.  We have received a lot of compliments on them and we are already selling them to customers.   Customers have said they en ..read more

In the past couple weeks our shop has had a little run on monogram cutouts.  The 3 below are all the same design, just different sizes.  Typically we make ours out of 1/8" plywood.  They are easy to handle, and can be painted any color that the customer likes.  These pictures came from our customer once they got the monograms staged for their function. I've mentioned before that about 75-80% of our laser business is etching or engraving and the other 20% is vector cutting.  This was one of those times that it was vector cut. We also can create cake toppers in a monogramed look so if you have ..read more