Easy DIY Guide For Laser Engraving Wood Pens in CorelDraw
Hi, this is Tim from Create-A-Lase, your one stop shop for your laser and printing needs as well as your trusted soure of easy and useful DIY ideas. It’s great to have you join us today. Today we are going to be showing you some techniques to add a touch of class to a wood pen. We will be doing Laser engraving wood pens in CorelDraw and with our laser engraving machine.
Laser Engraving
The trend of engraving is very popular now, especially in most occasions where you would like to add a personal touch to gifts, souvenirs, and the like. It will surely make what you give more memorable, appreciated, and unique.
Have you noticed those business logos that are engraved or etched? They do look elegant don’t they? Well, we can also achieve that with a gift,by engraving a person’s name. So let’s start off our laser engraver tutorial by checking the materials we need and going to CorelDraw to make the design.
What We Need:
- Pen (For this guide we have used a wood pen)
- Laser Machine (Essential)
- CorelDraw, though you can follow along with any vector program of choice.
Let’s Start:
Step 1: Open CorelDraw: Or use any vector-based software like Illustrator or Inkscape.
Step 2: Create a file using CorelDraw: On this part we have listed the process in a chronological order on how we made the file design for the pen.
- Let me let you in on a little secret to make things easier. First is I got these little blocks set up.
These are little Lego panels, what it does is it will mark your layout and the laser machine so it will aim the design to the exact spot on the pen. This will make for more precise and easier engraving.
Also, it will keep the pen sitting inside the machine nicely in the center line, by marking the pen. By watching the video you will understand more how this technique works.
- Next is we will measure the distance from the tip. That’s what the first little box is, then we now have the sections or space that we can engrave on.
- Now click on the Text Tool, to set any words for engraving, then choose a font.
- After creating a text and font style, click on the Ellipse Tool, and just drag it around your text. We made the circle a little bit small as we wanted the texture to sort of stick out past that ellipse.
- Next step is get the Fill Tool and grab on Gradient, change the gradient type to Elliptical Fill with Black and White. Just make the adjustments to your desired amount of shadow. Then on the right side of your screen just right click the upper icon above the colored boxes and it will remove the little boundary on the outside.
- On this part we would want our Text to be above the ellipse tool and make it white, so just left click to the colored boxes on the right side of your screen to White. After that, we will grab the Shadow Tool, and scroll to the bottom to adjust the glare on RGB. And to soften the edges of your text design, go to Gaussian and just make a little adjustment there.
We are nearly done, awesome job so far. By the way for a clearer picture of how to do our laser engraving wood pens in CorelDraw process, you may see the actual video through our YouTube link below. Follow us on Medium as well to get more amazing DIY project ideas. Feel free to drop a comment too on what you want to learn so we can do that for you.
Moving to Step 3: Now that we have our Text design, just bring that inside our little Lego boxes and make sure it is placed in the center, check your text as we don’t want to go outside the edges because that will end up engraving too far around the pen.
Final Step: Now we will be sending our file to print but do not forget to delete all the other extra bits like the extra lines and borders as we don’t want it to be engraved on our pen. We can just grab from the pegboard all the way up to the rectangles and press Delete. Place your pen inside the machine and we are ready to engrave.
And we are done! You now have a cool and custom pen to make the perfect gift or even for personal use. This could also be a possible business idea too. We hope this gave you a great and useful DIY project idea for your laser. For more creative and useful ideas follow us on Medium.
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Once again this is Tim from Create-A-Lase. Happy Making!
