From time to time we do some fun little projects. Recently we wanted to make something to showcase the laser cutter. I've seen metal cards before on the net but never locally so we got some cut:




Then we got bored and had some left over carbon we decided to lay some up on the back of the cards.




Pretty happy with the way they turned out all in all. Should be guaranteed to win those business card lunch draws at quiznos haha.

 

cards look sweet, but you need to update your website.

 

No argument here LOL. Used to have a flash monstrosity for a site that I hated. GF made that temp site in 20 minutes on her mac as the new site gets built.

 

how much?? i may be interested.

 

x2

 

Didn't really plan on doing them for others but if you guys want fire us an email and I'll try to help you out.

 

Looks nice. What kw laser are you using to cut them with?

 

Yeah, can you share what machine (epilog?) was used and settings - power, speed, frequency, etc...? Obviously, material and thickness as well.

Looks good though

 

I'm impressed! That's gotta be one of the coolest business cards I've ever layed my eyes on

 

It's an older Mitsu, not sure on the settings used(I didn't cut them) but it definitely took some messing about to dial it in. Usually the rule of thumb is you want a line thickness to be at least the thickness of the material but these were below that. These guys are 22g stainless but I'd like to get them on something thinner. We're doing a run of cards for some local guys and we got the pricing down to 2-5$/card. Our initial 10 cards were comically expensive haha.

 

Thanks for the process info. I've been messing around with a 60-watt epilog and I doubt it even has enough juice to cut through 22g, although it cuts 3/8" birch ply pretty good.

I once read about a guy that did really thin but solid gold business cards. He gave them out sparingly but his reasoning was he at least guaranteed that he would be remembered and that the receiver would not throw the card away.

 

I'll tell you right now (as an Epilog laser owner), that none of the Epilog co2 lasers will cut through that. The Epilog stuff is good for laser etching anodized aluminum and cutting plastics and wood.

Back to the topic at hand, those cards are bad ***.. I want a real laser like that now!

 

Instead of making a new thread I'm going to throw up some of the projects I can show you guys.

Did some prototype airfoils for wind tunnel testing.

 

AWESOME cards! id be very interested in getting some!

 

this is some great innovation, and looks cool, but a job like this would never pay off. taking into account the time it takes to program the machine to do it, the energy required to run the machine, then tack on $5 a card, $1000 will only get you 200 cards. i've done things like this before, as cool as they are, its not a practical job to take on if businesses are just going to be giving these away to potential clients

 

For a client that will be tossing a few hundred your way, probably not.

For those tossing a few hundred thousand, why not.

 

They probably helped get that airfoil job above since nobody will throw those cards out.

Yeah I'm not sure if it makes sense for small shops to get these made but for our personal promotion they have been a big hit. The stainless cards are somewhat affordable but the carbon wrapped ones are comically expensive at low volumes.

 

I would totally buy some for my shop. You dont have to give them to everyone that walks in- just certain customers...

 

For you guys why don't you just cut them from mild (cheap) and powder coat them? Would be awesome and affordable.

We're setting up an anodizing cell and I'll probably cut some aluminum cards and anodize them.

 

Totally agree! I was even thinking about using something like that for my color sample cards too.

I use aluminum beer bottles right now- but I dont let people take em.. haha

 

interested PM cost..