LaserCutZ produces fast turnaround tags for NYC piano manufacturer. Those metal brass tags are fiber laser cut to size and shape and then fiber laser engraved with any artwork needed. Variable serial numbers can be added to all tags. This is ideal for short run extremely excursive product runs such is the case with those Disney pianos. Tag surfaces can be made to anything that client requires, it can be mirror finished, brushed, patina or any special custom texturing. LaserCutZ main advantages are unlimited possibilities and extremely fast turnaround. Some engraving and cutting projects can be dome same day or next day.
Aluminum is one of the hardest material to weld but it is NOT a problem for LaserCutZ team. This overflow tan was cut from aluminum sheet metal on our fiber laser cutting machine, then it was TIG welded to shape with observation window and hose connectors and filling cup. Reservoir window is very nice as you can see both level of fluid and its color (quality). Very often we are asked to fabricate aluminum and stainless liquid tanks for various industries such as pharmaceutical, aerospace and automotive. LaserCutZ can produce any type of metal cutting and welding projects, fast turnaround and low volume prototype is our specialty.
Carbon steel medal is laser cut for this year Halloween for fab shop in Brooklyn. This metal medal was cut with out state of the art fiber laser metal cutting machine. LaserCutZ can fabricate any type of art project in different media including metal, plastic wood, glass and more
Aside from laser cutting LaserCutZ offers finishing and fabrication services. Picture below shows acrylic sheet laser cut with CO2 laser then through hole was countersunk with a cnc bid and to make appearance nice and smooth it was flame polished. Aside from drilling LaserCutZ can do acrylic edge polishing and routing.
Can you laser cut paper without burn marks? LaserCutZ can do that. We use custom cold laser that does not leave any burn marks on paper. Conventional CO2 lasers burn paper alot as they set material on fire and put fire out with air assist while cold laser just evaporates material. Our special tech allows to cut very intricate designs without any burning. This innovation allows production of projects with very high quality and extreme detalization.
Lots of 6061 aluminum sheets have been fiber laser cut into small 2×2″ squares that will be used for art installation in NYC. 6061 is most popular aluminum alloy as it shows light weight properties along with fairly decent strength.
Acrylic and Mylar sheet was laser cut to make a stencil for hatchet range in Brooklyn. This is fairly large semi redgit stencil almost 48×48″ in size designed for spray painting.
With raise of EV (electric vehicles) new batteries such as LiPO and LiPoFe4 become very popular New electric car startups building their own designs and require custom batteries and custom form factors to fit designs perfectly. LaserCutZ state of the art equipment can help test, and prototype any EV ideas from start to finish. Our specially build fiber lasers can cut non corrosive 3003 aluminum foil that can be used to join battery cells together. Our laser welders can weld leads to battery elements without heating them which reduces chances of defects or overheating form conventional spot welding. Finally LaserCutZ and TempGP engineering team can develop custom electronics and PCB to manage charging circuits and inverters as per client requirements.
Stencils are used everywhere where, but to produce them to perfection you need to pay attention to artwork you make. This guide will show how to make stencil artwork for laser cutting. Stencils can be cut with CO2 laser, fiber laser, CNC and blade vinyl plotters. regardless of what machine is used to cut them the all get cut and unlike a printer all cutters cut through material fully so all unsupported parts will fall off.
So lets say we want to spray paint this image below.
If you print out our image it will look perfect on paper, font is good size is good BUT if you send this art for laser cutting as stencil this art is not good and you will NOT get what you expected to be on paper. This font has letters B, oo, e,o that have inner elements. When laser cutting machine cuts out black area you get sign style letters that you can stick to something and you are OK but stencil needs negative space and as result all inner elements will get lost. Here is what happens when art is cut as stencil.
As inner elements of stencil were not supported by bridges ir tabs they got separated from main stencil body and when you spray that art you get big black holes in certain letters.
To avoid this, bridges or tabs need to be added to stencil artwork. This can be dome by cutting letters with eraser tool. So basically walls of the letters are separated and this allows main body your material to hold inner components. Example of properly setup stencil artwork will look like one blow
Same technique is used to make actual artwork with more complex thing then just plain text signs.
Another thing is to keep in mind about stencils is wall thickness of your bridges. If walls are too small then there us chance that bridge will burn out when lasered and inner part will be lost. Best to keep bridge walls to be at least same at material thickens though in many cases it can be smaller. For example if we would cut artwork above from 1/8″ (3mm) acrylic min wall thickness should be 3mm , bigger the wall more reliable it is. However if our stencil is very small day 6″ wide we can stil push bridges down to 1mm this will make stencil more fragile but its still usable. If we go less 1mm on acrylic parts will just brake.
Hot roll A38 steel fiber laser cut metal sign done for NYC restaurant to be used as fence for open streets barrier. Sign cut from 1/8″ 11GA panel, venue had 5 signs surroundings area to add extra branding. This metal sign will stay outdoor and overtime it will rust and will look like Barclays center paneling style
