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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Unique Graduation Gift - Top Five Laser Engraving Designs for a Unique & Personalized Graduation Gif

Laser engraved crystal is a great unique graduation gift. It is an excellent way to recognize and honor the graduate's hardwork and achievements. Here, I will provide you with top five laser engraving designs perfect for unique graduation gift. Laser engraved crystal is basically a crystal glass with engraving inside. The engraving inside the crystal creates an illusion of a floating image, really fascinating. Laser engraved crystals are often used for awards, which is great for honorary type of events like graduation. There is a lot of laser engraved crystal gift retailers in the market and they will provide you with great flexibility in designing your crystal gift. If you find it difficult to design the engraving for your unique graduation gift, here are top five engraving designs that are great for graduation.

1. Let us begin with a basic design that is often used for graduation. It is a mere combination of a graduation picture, date or year of graduation, and name of the graduate. Although these combinations are simple, they will make a great and unique graduation gift.

2. If you want to go for something sentimental, you might like this design. You can actually build on the first tip. Just take the same idea as the first tip (i.e. graduation portrait, date, and name of the graduate) and add a poetry or dedication or even a famous quote. With adding a more personal touch, you just made the sentimental and unique graduation gift. Great, isn't it?

3. You may also create a laser engraved crystal award for the graduate. You might want to get the school's logo of the graduate to make your "award" more realistic. You will also need to name the award, such as MVP, No.1, or Best of something. It is a fun and creative way to tell the celebrant how proud you really are of his or her achievements.

4. Another great laser engraving design for a unique graduation gift is a crystal greeting card. I like to call this unique graduation gift design as Crystalized Graduation Wishes. This design is great for a large family or group. You can write down all of your graduation wishes on a piece of paper and scan them in as images. Then, arrange them on the left side, right side, bottom or around a graduation picture. It will really look beautiful and makes a great sentimental and unique graduation gift.

5. Creating a replica of the year book of the graduating individual is also an excellent design for a unique graduation gift. I remember when I graduated, one of the hardest thing to do was saying goodbye to my friends. With laser engraved crystal, you can preserve this special bond. It creates a constant reminder of the great friends he or she made over the years. The best place to find photos of the graduates' friends is the yearbook. Look for autographs or photos from the yearbook. You can arrange these items however you want inside the crystal. The recipient will really love this unique graduation gift you designed specially for him or her. These five crystal engraving designs will help you make a unique graduation gift. They are simple and easy to do. The gift recipient will love their laser engraved crystal gift that you designed especially for him or her.

MJ Millares is the gift advisor of EmJee Designs. To find out more of her unique laser engraved design tips for a unique graduation gift, please visit http://www.emjeeonline.com

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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Laser Cutting

Laser cutting is a technology that uses a laser in cutting different kinds of materials, mostly metals such as carbon steel, aluminum, stainless steel and copper alloys. It is widely used in the metal fabrication industry to increase cutting speed and cutting capacity, reduce production costs, increase productivity and improve cutting quality.

A laser or LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is a device that generates a highly concentrated monochromatic and coherent beam of light. The light is produced through the process of stimulated emission.

Among the most commonly used laser in cutting is the carbon dioxide laser (CO2 laser), a kind of gas laser that is also used in welding. It is capable of emitting a maximum of 100 kilowatts at 9.6 µm and 10.6 µm and of cutting 20-30 m of one millimeter-thick material in a minute.

Cutting is done by aiming the energy produced by the high-power laser at a small portion of the object to be cut. That small portion is pierced first before a cut is made.

From the small hole, a cut is created either by moving the beam across the area of the material being cut, or by moving the object while the laser is kept still. One can employ both methods. As the intense beam of light strikes the part of the object or material, the latter?s temperature rises, causing it to melt, burn and evaporate even without sufficient amount of heat.

Not all materials require the same amount of laser power (the rate at which energy is delivered by the light). Thicker materials need more laser power while thinner ones need lesser laser power. Usually, carbon dioxide laser cutting is done with 1,000 to 1,500 watts. Materials such as steel need more than two kW.

Compared to other metal cutting procedures, laser cutting is far more advantageous, although it has some disadvantages, too. Its primary advantages are precision, cutting quality, cutting speed and economy. Among its disadvantages is its high voltage requirement. There is also risk of getting serious burns from the laser beam.

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