laser marking machines for firearms
What you need to Know about Laser Engraving Machines for firearms?
The gun business is a highly monitored and regulated sector.
It involves intricate tracking and traceability systems to give deserving people the right to own firearms, while still ensuring that licensed guns do not end up in the wrong hands.
This tracking and monitoring are highly aided by marks and labels engraved on gun surfaces.
Some private gun holders also love to have personalized markings to improve aesthetics on their guns.
Therefore, the technology of engraving marks on guns is popular.
Let us see how best to get your gun engraved with high quality designs.
What is Gun Engraving?
Gun engraving is a process that involves incising markings on a gun’s surface.
It is a high precision technology that requires clarity especially when engraving serial numbers and QR Codes.
A gun manufacturer is required to meet specific standards when engraving guns.
For this reason, they have to acquire the best gun laser engraving machines.
Engraving is done using either mechanical or laser engraving techniques.
Gun engraving machines are used to provide the technical regulatory requirements including gun serialization, clip tracking marks, traceability QR codes and hard coat anodized marking.
Other fancier stuff can be achieved with laser engraving for guns. These include names, logos, images, artwork and personal messages for a more personalized touch.
Gun Laser engraving has now been adopted to achieve high quality engraving, without the extra work required with the older techniques.
It is a sub-category of laser marking technology in which laser beams are projected onto a surface to vaporize material and etch on the surface of a gun.
A design is made using software, and loaded onto the computer, the software translates into digital signals which guide the engraving head to reproduce the pattern on the marking surface.
It is a subtractive manufacturing method which uses a laser beam to change the surface of a gun.
The laser engraving machines used on guns have three main components in them: a laser, a controller and a surface.
The laser head is a pencil-like light emitting gun that projects a beam on the engraving surface, guided by a computer-aided controller that imprints patterns on the surface.
Gun laser machines can engrave surfaces such as metals, plastics, coated metals or glass depending on their design and laser beam wavelengths.
Choosing the best Gun Laser marker
There are several considerations that you need to put into consideration before you buy your gun engraver.
The Type of engraving
The first consideration before purchasing a gun engraver is the type of engraving work you specialize in. Flat surface gun engravings have different machine requirements from those with curved surfaces.
If you want the machine can engraving on uneven gun part surface, then may need a 3D laser engraver.
If you handle light material guns, then there will be no need to get a very high output laser engraver.
Price
There are many brands that give you laser engravers that can work on a wide variety of guns. After you get all the features that you want in order to shortlist the machines that can offer the properties you need, you also need to consider the price.
Which machine gives you the best options and is still within your budget?
The fiber laser engraver is a good metal laser engraver which can better suitable for various gun parts marking, you could consider purchase the engraving machine with a reasonable price from China.
Customization for various materials
One gun can have several materials on which the owner wants fiber laser engraving to be done.
How easy is it to use the machine you are considering to cover all needs? Different Laser engravers offer different operation ways with various difficulty levels; as our experience, the fiber laser marker will be a good choice with natural operate feature.
What are space and materials that it can work? If this is a plastic gun, then the CO2 laser engraver can be better marking performance then fiber laser one.
This is Selina from Triumphlaser, if you have any questions about gun laser engraving machine, please don’t hesitate to contact me, I’m always here being ready to help you.
Email:selina@triumphlaser.com
