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Can't imagine what you have/are going through. Will be praying for you brother

For a budget one that's still well built I'd look up torus cnc.

I just looked it up and apparently it has a base of hydrochloric acid and FeCH added. Apparently it works great I just didn't wanna spend $60+ on a gallon until I am sure it works good haha

Agreed

Have you tried reaching out to John? He may have a customer who's been looking for one

A lot of guys here are using diode lasers which can do both metal and synthetic material (like leather). I purchased a 50w fiber laser that's designed for metal and it's fantastic... Got mine from lasersonly.com

I just flared them then used some brass black stuff by Casey iirc. Thanks! And yours looks fantastic as well!

Finished this up recently... Scales are WWII rag micarta from the US Navy and the blade is DC21N Damacore

Yeah, foredom. They make ones with different power and some have forward and reverse so just research them before purchasing!

Thanks man! I made a cad file and had a custom wheel made. I grind them on a vfd powered grinder under coolant

It's hard to compete with even just the phone editing software unless you REALLY know what you're doing. I snapped this on my phone and edited in Google photos

Yep it's only the gators but they work GREAT

That's interesting... I absolutely SOAK my gator trizacts (337 dc) which aren't rated for water and they hold up great - been doing it for years. The normal trizacts (non gator) don't though so maybe that's what you are referring to?

Don't see why it wouldn't work... It's how I grind minus the tilted platen. She's probably tilting it due to height so she can still look down the platen and see what's going on

The seller said they were "display anodized" rather than "full anodized" because they aren't thick enough... Whatever that means. I just ordered some of these, seem much higher quality and I'm getting them in gold and black. These are much thicker too, .8mm. They run about $1 ea though so more...

No, not other than an ambient air dust extractor... No issues with that though

Edges are rough and scratches and dings on many of them. Just ordered some others today though, so we'll see!

Well got the cards in! They are plenty thick at .4mm but I'm disappointed with the quality... The edges are chewed up slightly and the faces of the cards have dings and scratches on them. Still, here's what it looks like:

This set up likely won't... It's barely using any water to create a cold light mist to be sprayed on the blade directly. I use 2 x dual misters that are below my platen wheel (2 inside the belt, 2 outside) and soak the belt completely. It does cut down on dust but doesn't completely eliminate it.

The ones I got were off etsy and are .45mm thick (around .020 ") so we shall see