One of the biggest hurdles we had was laying out the artwork on the the stock itself.  With the power of the internet we were able to find a DXF outlive of the stock and download it to our software.  This was a huge help and helped up save lots of time in the design process. Once we had the outline DXF we were then able to quickly lay out the design. Â
Speed and Power settings for our laser were consistent with laser engraving onto hard walnut. Â