Well the local laser shop quoted me $180, but they are unable to cut MDF/masonite/plywood. There machine will only cut up to 1/4 acrylic. The other local laser place can cut anything you can think of..literally. They have 10+ machines, there biggest being 4000watts (They do manufacturing for Boeing). They will eventually cut out my aluminum machine but they are very expensive. Since i want to understand the machine basics first before dumping a lot of money into it since i plan on doing a aluminum revision anways and don't have anyone that will cut the laser part out for sub 200 dollars, i may just be crazy enough to hit up kinkos and use there 48" wide plotter to print out the plans, exacto knife them out, glue them to the wood, and manually cut them out by hand. I have a large collection of tools and a decent shop, so i figure why not? $30 for the printed plans (kinkos), $25 for the wood, (home depot-baltic ply-wood, mdf dust is dangerous stuff!) and a bit of my time on the weekend. I already have a scroll saw, band saw, table saw, jig saw, belt sander, drills, and a chop saw/etc if need be. Maybe ill do the alternative way, documented for people who have access to kinkos and not a laser?
thoughts/opinions!? haha?
