Here’s a laser cutting technique that makes thin plywood ... a lattice of strips connected minimally by alternating tabs is left over. The wood is then bendable, and it must be somewhat durable ...

Pull the file into your laser cutter software and cut. I used a 3mm MDF ... Apply the pieces to the base using wood glue. I used a paintbrush to apply the glue for the smaller pieces so there ...

Tennessee-based Cupples’ J&J Co. has added a 50-kW Cutlite Penta with bevel laser cutting machine. It can oxygen-cut ...

But new tools bring new challenges and new opportunities in joinery, like this interesting “hammer joint” that can be made with a laser cutter ... although wood seems to be the best application.

Access to a laser cutter and CAD software Lasers cut by burning through the material and are incredibly precise. They can be used on cardboard, paper, wood, foam, acrylic plastics as well as on ...

Experiments were conducted using an industrial 2D flat-bed laser cutting machine featuring 4kW laser power and equipped with a multimode fiber laser source producing a top-hat intensity distribution.