DO NOT buy a LASER ENGRAVER until you see this video - CREALITY FALCON 40W  

Here is a word of warning. ALWAYS wear a mask when routing, sanding, or anything with wood. I did woodworking as a hobby throughout the years and now I have pulmonary fibrosis. My lungs are dying quicker than the rest of me. I have seen this before when I worked at a nuring home. It is a miserable slow death..

"GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT" You both have great talents can't wait to see your home going through the changes.

I like your catchphrase 'grind, weld paint repeat" especially when you're working on your place. You both work well together and I like your videos.

Nicely done with the 3/4" sign. I didn't even consider that a 40W diode could cut through that much material. One trick I've used in the past for placing things like the "EST 2018" is to engrave it into the surface of the target (the 3/4" sign in this case) and the engraving creates a small recess that the pieces just slot into so you won't need the laser and quick square.

GRIND...WELD...PAINT...REPEAT Beautiful, one-of-a-kind build. Love it and the green light : )

Thanks for the review. The Falcom 40W is going to the top of my list......

When painting the letters, I use masking tape, sticky side up. It helps prevent the letters from moving when painting. Nice job guys!!!!

They're called "stencil" fonts. I'm going to have to get one of these lasers for my container build. Birch-plywood wall interiors with laser-cut holes for flush mount switches and outlets. This is the solution I was looking for. Thanks!

Great video. I was wondering if you could put out an update video, with how much use and how well it has held up in the last two months. And of course, issues you had, the pros and cons. Thx.

that engraver is really cool 💖best of luck to all that entered💖 love the plaque too that turned out awesome 🤜🤛 all the colors were pretty cool

Always finish and seal your backside of signs for the ultimate longevity...just a tip from a life long carpenter...keep up the great work

Great video guys. I just went to check this laser on their website. They show "adjustable light beam" with the click of a button. It's like 2 modules in one?. 40w and 22w. If you went over this feature I think I missed it. I know nothing about these lasers . So I've been doing my research and came across the brand. Thank you guys for the tips.

When making parts in Acrylic, you can use the edge of the acrylic piece you cut out to aid in taking the tape off the acrylic. It won't scratch the acrylic doing it in this fashion.

Hi just started watch info regarding lasers today 8/29/23. I have watched so many, yours helped me a lot with my Decisions. Thank You Side note, I am wanting to start side hustle because I can’t work full time anymore. 24 surgeries 8 in the last 5 years. Mri tomorrow if I need a third back surgery. ( fell off semi in 2017) 😢I need to find things to do to supplement income that doesn’t take to much physically. Thx Phil

I have a 100w co2 laser and it will cut 3/4 in one pass also, but it has charring as well. I think anything over 1/4 will have at least some char. Its definitely faster than my cnc machine though. But the cnc can carve v grooves without char. Every tool has its limits, pros and cons. The 3d printer is cool but the slowest of all of them. The cnc can do some metal. The laser can engrave and cut pretty quickly.

GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT! Really such a cool build! Can’t wait to see the finished project! 😃

When placing the small letters use the cut out negative as a placing template align it in the right spot no measuring required use tweezers to grab letters and it goes fast

You have me sold on the laser engraver. Would like to see if it could cut cedar fence pickets to make seasonal door plaque's for my front door. One thing I learned from a friend is don't cut pressure treated wood or vinyl with a laser. Salesman told him he could easily cut vinyl with a laser. The toxic and corrosive fumes destroyed his $6,000 CO2 laser in just 6 months! Thankfully it was in an enclosure vented to the outside!

Thanks for the information, great job. The thumbs up after everything and anything is VERY overdone and was old 2 years ago

Great Vid! Very informative. Love the projects. Especially the sign🔥💜🔥

looks like United Sans for the font. Very versatile nice font. Nice Video, I'm considering expanding into laser etched/cut goods in the future and have been considering a Falcon 2

Haven’t finished the video yet, but I saw something when you were setting the height of the laser using their included guide. The minute you pulled it out, the wood flexed up. That’s a good thing to consider for any and everyone. Once that happens, it’s just all kinds of wonky. You’ll get perfect results in one place and odd results elsewhere. Wood can play a factor. If it isn’t flat, it’s not gonna be good for your project.

How is it to grave lets say a pistol grip. With variable hights. Can i lay down a object and its feels the layer hights. Leta say its 1cm on one edge and 3 in the midle and maby 2 to the right. Or is it just flat if i dont the roller?

Wow! What an amazing machine!

Great video! I just got mine today.

Very nicely done project, thank you.

Great review. Thank you!

Nice demonstration! For anyone on the East Coast watching, you'll want to play at 1.5x to 2x speed.

SOO, my kids say I ruin everything! Maybe that's true! Hahaha 😂 But seriously, please be careful with that laser and especially what you cut. You two are awesome, and I absolutely love your willingness to try anything and just do it! It's inspiring and fun to watch! But so many of these things come with serious health risks, and the Chinese manufacturers (like Creality) don't inform their customers (barely at all) of the dangers. Some materials (including most treated woods, and most purchased wood is treated) give off some seriously dangerous particulates when vaporized by a lazer, like formaldehyde gas (just google the affects, yikes! Scary AF). That's also why industrial CO2 or fiber lasers almost always come with an enclosure paired with a carbon filter to catch or evacuate the nasty "melt your lungs 🫁 forever" stuff... (Think Gloforge for hobbyists, and the huge price difference.) Many seemingly innocuous materials, even paper or leathers, will surprise you when you read up on it. I was just lucky and learned young because my father was first a welder, then a nondestructive tester (x-rays and ultrasounds on the Apollo missions and more). He was also a certified AWS welding inspector and trainer (trained inspectors), with woodworking as his "side hobby"... So exposure to the full gambit of DIY projects, with his his constant nagging "Son, always wear your PPE" warnings, and then years of my own related work experience, I've learned just how dangerous this stuff really IS. I also worked on an industrial laser table (cutting stainless for AT&T phone utility boxes) and also a giant plasma table cutting 2" plate. This was in the 90's when CO2 lasers were still rare in industry and cost over a million bucks! At home I have multiple 3D printers with many specialized high temp (toxic) filaments, laser engravers, welders, Oxy/Acet, abrasives, an electrolysis plating setup, etc. My shop also includes countless dangerous acids and oxidizing agents, and a wall of very deadly shop chemicals. Outside of my personal hobby shop I work in IT. But before I shifted to IT, I was originally a biology major in college. Only later on I switched to comp sci. So I've kept up with medicine, along with physics, engineering, and anything and everything science related... This is mostly because I'm deep on the autistic/ADD spectrum, hence always being so long winded with my comments 😂, but it also makes me an insanely voracious learner-doer DIYer. And I genuinely care for others. So back to these lasers... I love them, and they are totally FN awesome! Ohhh! and the endless creative possibilities! It's definitely addictive! But... please just don't risk your eyes 👀 or lungs, because many of the (standard/known) byproducts are odorless or invisible, and WILL definitely cause permanent irreconcilable damage to your eyes, lungs, and health in general. I see you always wear your welding PPE. This is arguably more serious than plasma cutting with no gear. So, at the bare minimum, run a decent fan, even a crappy old box fan, and blow the fumes towards an open door or window. Wear a respirator, or at minimum, a tight well fitted N95. Spend the money on better quality glasses, or at minimum, start it remotely from another room. Remember that you cannot blink faster than light, and those cheap glasses do absolutely -nothing- to protect you from the powerful invisible spectrum generated by those cheap Chinese diode lasers. That secondary invisible beam will almost always point in a totally different direction than the visible laser you're aware of, and they will burn far faster than the UV light generated from arc welding or plasma cutting. So you will think it's "all good in the hood" while you're simultaneously burning your retinas 😢, because the visible laser is pointing 👉 elsewhere. I.E., meanwhile, your standing "naked" directly in the path of a literal blinding laser, totally unaware until your eyes ache painfully afterwards. The damage can be instantaneous and -is- permanent. I know I sound like a totally over-the-top worry willy right now, and I know I also commented on those glasses before... But just make sure you read up on the risks and the cheaper laser glasses, because Creality (and many others) are not required to educate their customers in order to sell this stuff. Most laser glasses have been independently tested, and the terrible results of -most- are shocking (many on par with cheap sunglasses 😎). Even calling them laser glasses at all gives people a dangerous false sense of security. So just be safe so you two can keep doing what you love!! Because your projects and energy are awesome! 👌

Thanks, good info! For now, it's just too expensive but maybe we can find affordable used ones. Surprising, 20 watt versions do almost that depth of woodcuts. Dunno if you mentioned in the video that the Falcon has a low power switch to cut the 40 watts in half to 20 watts.

Before staining, do you use a pre-stain wood sealer? If not, it’s like using PVA Primer for new drywall. Doing so will even out the wood grain so that the stain is even.

Very cool demo, makes me want one to make money

That was mad and amazing, machine is incredible

19:55 those letters which are cut out could be painted as white and glue them back 50% of the thickness etc?

lol.... grind, weld, paint, repeat.... looking forward to Saturday!

Please be aware those green glasses you get free with the machines are not the correct ones to use with a blue diode laser. You need the orange ones. You could be damaging your eyes.

hey guys - i know i'm late to the conversation. I watched this video and was WOW'd at the ability to cut thru 1" thick pine. I know the power was 100% - What was the speed? Also - did it need Air?

Really good work guys!

That is so cool the thing you can imagine to make 🎉

That is so cool. The technology of today is way cool. Your friends are going to love the sign. You both are so creative 😍. GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT.

I want to engrave brass keys, will the Creality Falcon 2 have the ability to do that?

Grind Weld Paint Repeat!! Love the sign!

Grinds weld paint repeat love the size and shape of the laser bed

Great Video, I use allot of acrylic to make LED signs..... If you use a heat gun on the backing for just a few seconds the backing will peel off easily..... Just a suggestion..... Good Luck

FWIW: I'm at the 30W level, and my worst enemy is the fumes! You need really good fume extractor for burning a lot of wood. Before upgrading to 40W, consider spending that money on a quality fume extractor. Also consider that a mixed process might be faster, more efficient and cleaner than solving all problems with the laser. A quality jigsaw is a lot cheaper than any laser, and very fast. No mistake, it IS quite nice to cut through materials with a laser, but there are some things a laser does not do as well as hand tools.

HI there i have a question, it cuts 3/4 pine wood, how about 3/4 pine "Plywood" how many passes would that need "If posible"

I think you ought to make a good size sign with the words “grind weld, paint repeat” and put it in your home so you’ll never forget how hard you worked on your beautiful home.

It looks to me like the laser is powerful enough to have nearly melted the RU-vid logo it etched. It must generate quite a lot of heat when it spends that much time in one spot. You can see the distortion in the light on the side of the stainless water bottle. 3/4 inch wood! One pass! That's got some really usable power. I would imagine that would etch PCB's pretty well also. I can't see that having an issue vaporizing thin copper.

quite a great work and will love to do this in ghana to support the poor in my community

Great video, what is the best setting for cutting acrylic?

When you are using the laser i noticed you have an extractor fan in the background do you use this with the air assist and is it possible to make a box to put the laser in and make an extractor fan for it to cut down on the smoke it produces keep up the good work your videos are so informative 👍👍

Great video and nice job on the metal cup, but you either have too much power or too slow a speed, it's deforming the metal pretty noticeably.

GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT Great video can't wait for mine to come in October. Where did you get the LED lights?

Great video love that engraver

I’ve been loving your videos! My question would be is which engraving machine did you enjoy the most? I’m currently leaning toward the Falcon2 but would love your input please!?!

Does this come with a Co2 laser to cut slate? If it will do slate, What depth will it cut to?

Hi, Great machine!👍💯

Do you think this laser would hold up doing production work? Could it run all day?(5hrs duty out of an 8hr day)

Good Morning. I have a question. What do you with the smoke in the room? I seen the door was open. Is there alot of smoke ?

maybe a thinner plastic frosted white backing would make the leds brighter, it might be to thick or it just does not come out on camera all that vibrant.

What font did you use to keep the little parts of the letter from falling out?

Hi, I was wondering if it can engrave glass , thanks . Grind Weld Paint Repeat .

how does it perform on 304/316 stainless, 1018/4140 steel, 6al4v titanium and aluminum? How does this compare to the Xtool D1 Pro w/ Infrared module. Can burn wood with a magnifying glass and the sun so the real test is metal. I am not a big fan of creality when it comes to build quality and support.

I would like one of those acrylic stand. Thank you.

Grind..Weld..Paint..Repeat One slick machine !

Cool machine!

Nice video. Thank you for the intro to your new Creality 40 watt diode. You mentioned that you found a font where the center of certain letters don't fall out. Would you can to share what the font name is? Thank you in advance.

GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT. That sign is very cool, possiblity are endless. have fun.

"GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT" The white back light is great, but I like the green.

GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT Wow that is a machine I need to get!

It was very nice but you should have used sign white acrylic. Sign white acrylic allows the light to pass through so the letter would be much brighter with the color change. This is the same acrylic they use in malls. It is very cheap also.

GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT - I am impressed with the product that you so ably demonstrated but how much is it???? Please do more diverse subject videos please.

Sweet!!

A working bench would help, with holes under it and a ventilation system or an air extractor on top.

How long does it take that you have to replace the laser? also for how many hours do the laser ?

GRIND WELD PAINT REPEAT! Good job!!!!

Looks good 👍🏼. What’s the font name that you talked about in the test run? Can you share the link in the description? Thanks

Fonts that keep the internal parts of letters are called stencil fonts. That will help you in your future searches.

What software are you using? I'm just getting into laser cutting and I can't seem to really nail a good software program to use.

Grind Weld Paint Repeat. Interesting. Thinking on how to integrate it with my wood turning. 30:39

what about the color engraving how does it do the job

Do you think this Creality machine will work good for engraving custom art designs, logos and text on firearms and knives? If so I might need to invest in one of them.

How are you controlling the smoke, especially in your living room?

Thank you for the review! What was the name of the font you found?

thought about engraver for my ender 3 s1 pro....thanks! be cool to try out

3:09 - Creality includes this little guide which makes it quick and easy... 3:15 - operator moves the guide and the head drops noticeably on the right! lol

Nice sign, looks like a great laser. Whats the fond you using?

No fume extraction/exhaust - that's a quick way to get sick real fast. Setting up a fan by an open door or window is not sufficient as I'm sure you already found out. You will still have lots of fumes in your work space - especially if attempting any mass production. Nicely done video though! Tip for removing acrylic masking quicker - use a hair blow dryer on low setting to warm it. Alternatively you can do a quick wipe with mineral spirits, wait a minute or two, then remove the mask in one piece usually.

What was the name of the font you found that had the connected lines?

It would be nice if you mentioned the speed and power settings to cut the thick wood

Idea for possible future projects, fill letters with simi-transparent resin and backlight with leds.

To engrave bottles you filled them up with water to avoid the terrible material deformation you had.

Dampen the tape on the acrylic to make it easier to remove. Stops it ripping.

very cool! will this cut and engrave leather?

Should these laser cutters be running with no enclosure?

So, what’s the price tag on this unit? It looks really nice.

Interesting. I’m in some laser groups, and they say no air assist for engraving.

Grind weld paint replete nice work

This machine can cut 2 mm carbon steel or aluminum plates?

What kind of 3/4 inch wood? Pine? Different woods will give you different levels of penetration.