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Getting Started
Unboxed it an hour ago? Start here. First engrave, focus, safety and the settings that stop you wasting material.
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Tips & Tricks
The small things that make a big difference — masking, defocusing, air assist tricks and workflow shortcuts.
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Materials & Settings
Power, speed and passes for wood, acrylic, metal, leather, glass and everything else people keep throwing at a laser.
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Machines & Hardware
LP1 through LP5, LX1 and LX2, enclosures, rotaries, rollers and air assist. Mods, upgrades and comparisons.
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Software: LDS & LightBurn
LaserPecker Design Space, LightBurn, image prep, vector tracing and getting files from Illustrator to the bed.
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Troubleshooting & Repairs
No laser output, connection drops, ghosting, banding, burnt lenses. Post your symptoms and someone has seen it before.
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Projects & Ideas
Work in progress, design critique and 'has anyone tried…' threads. Finished builds belong in the Showcase.
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Business & Selling
Pricing, licensing, markets and craft fairs, plus selling digital files here on the forum shop.
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Real projects with the settings that made them — copy the recipe, then post yours.
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Questions, fixes and finds from the last few days.
Machines & Hardware Pinned
Fiber vs diode: what each one is actually for
Comes up constantly, so here's the short version from someone who runs both. Diode (445–455nm), e.g. LP2/LP4 diode module: - Wood, leather, cardstock, dark acrylic, coated/painted metal, sla…
Safety & Extraction Pinned
Read this first: materials you must never put in a laser
Pinned because it comes up every week and the answer never changes. Never cut or engrave these: - PVC / vinyl / faux leather with PVC backing — releases chlorine gas. It will corrode your ma…
Portrait prep before dithering: does an edited reference survive a one-bit preview?
Before sending a portrait through a one-bit preview, I wanted to look at the eyes, nose and beard separately from the overall contrast. A continuous-tone image can look crisp at full size wh…
Lp4 Rotary only etches a circle/line, need help
Just bought the LP4, for rotary work. After doing some test with machine on simple flat materials, I hooked up the rotary, and followed all steps, but the machine only etchs a line around th…
LP4 rotary not being detected
I got the rotary up and running, everything was working fine. Next day I start it up to do a project and rotary is not doing anything, blue light is on, never touched anything, after several…
Troubleshooting & Repairs Solved
Engraving is fine, cutting suddenly stopped going through — same file as last week
Nothing changed. Same 3mm acrylic, same file, same settings. Last week it cut through in one pass, this week it doesn't.