Laser Italian Charms

The skillful creator of a laser Italian charm must learn to work with many different chemicals. Some of those chemicals are solids. They are hard metals. Others are chemicals that can be poured onto the flat, metal surface of the charm. The charm maker must learn the characteristics of each of the metal surfaces and each coating material. In that way, the charm maker can know how the touch of a laser pen should affect the charm on which the charm maker plans to work. The skilled charm maker can look at a plain Italian charm and envision something much finer. The skilled charm maker can envision a laser Italian charm.

In order to make an attractive and eye-catching laser Italian charm, one needs a laser engraving machine. Still the mere possession of that one machine should not be seen as a guarantee that the person who owns that machine will be able to produce a laser Italian charm. 

The laser point “pen” of the engraving machine does not “write” directly onto the metal used to make the engraved charm. It “writes” on a coating that has been applied to one face of that charm. The beautiful work created with that laser “pen” requires the presence on the Italian charm of the proper coating.

Before application to an Italian charm of the proper coating, a person skilled in use of the laser engraving pen can not put a word or symbol on that charm. After application of the proper coating, then that charm can become a laser Italian charm.

Those who are familiar with the laser Italian charm no doubt know that a charm maker, one which plans to engrave something on a charm, can choose from among many different coatings. Some of them choose to coat one face of the charm with Laser Brass. That metal coating responds well to the touch of the laser engraving pen.

Other charm makers decide to coat their Italian charm with AlumaMak. A charm with AlumaMak has a tri-layer coating. The bottom layer is pure aluminum. The middle layer is aluminum mixed with a substance that responds to the touch of the laser beam. The top layer acts like a protective coating, covering the laser-engraved surface underneath.

Still other charm makers prefer to work on Anondized aluminum. When one face of an Italian charm has been covered with Anondized aluminum, then that surface can respond to the touch of the laser pen. The laser bleaches the area that comes in contact with the laser pen. That bleaching effect causes the formation of a letter or symbol.

Now suppose a charm maker has both an engraving machine and a coated charm. Is that charm maker ready to make a laser Italian charm? The answer is no. That charm maker needs one further piece of equipment.

That charm maker needs a stencil. The stencil carries on it the outline of the letter or symbol that is supposed to be engraved on the charm. The stencil is used to expose that part of the coated charm that should be transformed by the engraver. The stencil protects from the laser pen those parts of the coating that the charm maker does not want to engrave.
Sometimes, a charm maker wants to inlay a symbol into the face of an Italian charm. In that case, the charm maker uses a shell laminate. The laminated material can be cut by a laser. Thus the charm with a shell laminate can become a laser Italian charm.