Cutting leather with laser

[chuck123wapati]

12 minutes ago, Ferg said:

Most of the time I ignore what they tell me and let my wife worry since she will anyway. 😉

i havent went to a doctor yet who couldn't find something wrong. Stay as active as you can, my friend. 

I actually use a small benchtop band saw to cut most of my thick leather now.

[Ferg]

2 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

i havent went to a doctor yet who couldn't find something wrong. Stay as active as you can, my friend. 

I actually use a small benchtop band saw to cut most of my thick leather now.

I have a 20" Powermatic band saw and a 12" Craftsman

I haven't done much for sometime with my heavy leather but that is a good idea.

[Ferg]

Don't like the soot that eventually lands on the face of finish leather so I am cutting patterns for the Mrs's phone and mine. I will just go back to cutting with a knife. I will post some pics when I am done with them.

Don't know if you don't try. And actually a piece I cut yesterday stinks bad enough I don't want it in my pocket.

BTW: I sold my bender for making dies plus I gave my 20 ton press I used for die cutting to my son.

OH WELL!!!!!

[Bert03241]

18 hours ago, Dwight said:

I am fortunate that the company I retired from also gave us pretty darn good health insurance.  I have it . . . Medicare . . . and the VA . . . so I kind of ease out from under a bunch of that garbage . . . and at 81 + . . . that's a good deal.

The meds alone for my peripheral neuropathy are probably in the neighborhood of 500 a month . . .  VA will not recognize it as caused by agent orange and give me any disability on it . . . but they do provide the meds for less then 25 bucks a month.   Something is better than zero.

What was your big laser there Bert . . . I've got a vanilla 3000 milli watt baby that I really have fun with . . . and a 10 watt Ortur . . . that is my work horse when I need bigger stuff done.  I'm thinking about buying a 40 or 50 watt head for it to do some extra pattern cutting on my holsters . . . but I haven't stepped up to the plate for sure.  May just keep what I've got.

I really want to see Ferg's phone cover . . . I've tried to sort it all out in my head . . . haven't done much with it.  Waiting on the pics . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

I have a 60 watt co2  24x15 bed w/9" z axis Have used it in a couple yrs just sittin here collecting dust.

[kgg]

6 hours ago, Ferg said:

Most of the time I ignore what they tell me and let my wife worry since she will anyway.

I know what you mean, wives do most of the worrying.

kgg

[Dwight]

16 hours ago, Bert03241 said:

I have a 60 watt co2  24x15 bed w/9" z axis Have used it in a couple yrs just sittin here collecting dust.

Put it in a box . . . send it to me . . . I'll put a leash on it and exercise it like a German Shepherd police dog . . . 

That could be my next one . . . I'm playing with the idea of going back on Ebay . . . pre-made sample pictures . . . and I'll be definitely using a laser to cut out the patterns.  My 10 watt will do it . . . but sometimes it's 2 or 3 passes . . . and I would rather not mess with that.

What do you do different with a co2 laser . . . do you have to supply co2 from a jug or something . . . never saw one work.

May God bless,

Dwight