Each one follows the same shape — what you'll make, what you'll need, the settings, the steps, and the mistakes everyone makes so you don't have to. Numbered because the order matters: each project builds a skill the next one uses.
The most important project you'll ever run — a grid of squares worth more than any chart on the internet, because it's from your machine.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 02 / 10The classic first real project. Teaches engrave-before-cut, masking, and finishing — cheap, quick, giftable.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 03 / 10Maximum wow per effort. Slate engraves beautifully on even a small diode, and the oil-finish trick doubles the contrast.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 04 / 10The project diode lasers are secretly best at — carbon-black, ink-like results. Photo prep, dithering, and the test-strip habit.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 05 / 10Your first cut-and-engrave product and your first taste of production work. Cast vs extruded, mirror-engraving clear, low air assist.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 06 / 10A premium-feeling gift from one of the friendliest natural materials — and the safety lesson about tannage every leather worker needs.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 07 / 10The UK's bestselling personalised gift. Placement, focusing on thick stock, and why you only ever engrave bare wood.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 08 / 10Glass sounds advanced. With the tempera paint trick, a cheap diode does it — and CO2 owners learn the damp-towel method.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 09 / 10Batch production, gift-ready. Teaches nesting, layers, and the workflow that carries straight into craft-fair selling.
Read the tutorialTUTORIAL 10 / 10Two routes: fibre annealing for a permanent black, or marking compound for diode and CO2 owners. Dog tags, openers, tools.
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