[Swansea Hackspace] Laser cutting?

[Gerrit Niezen]

It took about a week to get a quote form Lasers R Us, which was around £90 ex works, material or shipping. Got another quote from Cut Laser Cut (in London) for £90 including material and shipping. A lot of money for what is basically a 500x450mm box with a smaller box on top.

The design is a bit too complicated to do with a table saw and band saw (see attached .svg). I ended up using a styrofoam box instead: Not as aesthetically pleasing, but it does the job.

For smaller designs, I’d really recommend Razorlab.co.uk <http://razorlab.co.uk/>. The quote process is completely automated (so you can play around with it a bit), and once I submitted my design it was made and shipped on the same day. I paid £6.74 (including material, excluding P&P) for a design made on a 181x181mm sheet of 3mm MDF. 




> On 26 Feb 2015, at 22:35, Graham Owens <grahamowensuk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Was/Is this resolved? If so who did you go with and how was the result?  If not - I have a table saw and band saw that you could use if the design is not super complicated.
> 
> On 4 Feb 2015 18:54, "Ceri Clatworthy" <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com <mailto:ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Lasers R us.......
> Kenvig. .. just after Port Talbot. .
> 
> Ceri
> 
> On 4 Feb 2015 14:17, "Gerrit Niezen" <gerrit.niezen at gmail.com <mailto:gerrit.niezen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> While we’re still waiting on pledges for our own laser cutter (http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/LaserCutter <http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/LaserCutter>) I was wondering whether anybody knows where I can get some larger-format laser cutting work done in Swansea? I basically want to cut a box (based on an existing open-source design, example in .svg format attached) where the larger sides measure 500mm and 450mm respectively (which means the CNC mill in the space is a bit too small for the job ;)
> 
> I was thinking of using the laser-cutting service RazorLab (http://www.razorlab.co.uk <http://www.razorlab.co.uk/>) but their maximum size is 790x384mm.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gerrit
> 
> 
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