Thank you to all of you who have taken your time to take pictures and write up your process with making on the Glowforge. Your creativity and tutorials have helped me learn along the way. I’ve been reading about testing material before using it because YMMV is a humorous mistress when coupled with learning to laser. Unexpected results are a double-edged sword. @evansd2 has a very good new material testing write-up here New material cut test method and I recommend reading that before doing
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