Twotrees TTS-55 Pro Laser Engraver 5.5W Laser Engraving Machine,Laser Cutter,500 mm/s Speed,0.08mm Laser Spot Engraver Machine for DIY,Wood,Metal,Acrylic,Glass,Stainless Steel

Excellent laser engraver well worth the money

I bought this engraver to try with some wooden nameplates for Thanksgiving, and some race medals. It was easy to set up and LastGRBL (the freely available control program) is pretty easy to use (though I should note I work in tech).I didn’t cut out the wooden leaves in the picture with the engraver, so I can’t review that feature (I purchased them precut elsewhere on Amazon), but I did use the engraver to burn the text, and as you can see it did a clean, accurate job. Each leaf took a few minutes to engrave (they’re about 3” across, for reference), and it was easy to align them after the first one by using a rough outline cut from cardboard, taped to the garage floor beneath the engraver (because then I could just drop the next leaf in the cutout and click go).The medals were a little less successful. You can see in the picture of back of the medallion itself (made of some typical, anodized cheap metal alloy) that even after many passes on different settings and heights (including some early, poorly aligned attempts), the text was not clear enough on the back of the medal to really be worth anything (you can barely see it). A friend told me that painting the back of the medal black before engraving may have fixed that problem, but I didn’t try that. Instead, I bought self-adhesive black metal plates (the circular plate pictured, used for making phones work with magnetic mounts, etc.) and engraved those. They came with a thin plastic-like coating on them, and I engraved through that to reduce scatter, then removed the coating after engraving. I will note that doing so produced some likely toxic smoke, so I wore a respirator mask while engraving, but the resulting text was pretty clean (though not as nicely contrasted as the wood).All-in-all, I was pleased with the value of the tool, as it is substantially cheaper than the next level option, and is probably quite suitable to light-duty hobby engraving (especially on wood or leather, I would be careful with plastic or other glossy materials, and you may have mixed results with metal, as I did). I have purchased some additional accessories for it (the rotary stage and risers) to attempt to engrave through the coating on some commercial steel vacuum tumblers. We’ll see how that goes! (I haven’t used it for long enough to speak to the durability of the moving parts or laser diode).

muy recomendable, es facil de armar, cumple su funcion, lo unico negativo es que hay que comprar todos los accesorios por separado.

The engraver was easy to put together and started out great. I engraved a few peices quite well but on my 4th engraving the graphic was extremely hard to see. I troubleshooted but the laser is still engraving extremely weak. I also saw other reviews that had the same issue with the laser not working after a few engravings. Very disappointed about this, now I have to find an alternative.

It is a very forgiving machine so easy to use with little to no knowledge of the device. Is not made for fast or on demand work unless it is small. I have dropped it and cussed it but it keeps on working so I recommend it for any skill level and to have fun.

Slow but that's ok., works without a hitch

The media could not be loaded. Its an awesome starter laser. I plan to buy a bigger frame. I'm using the laser for my wood projects like engraving pictures and engraving words

We've had this probably a year now and it still works great for what we bought it for...originally got it for leather hat patches but we do a lot more with it like key chains and acrylic ...money well spent