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Experimental workshop · Leiria
Wood.
Paint.
Stubbornness.
A 12W laser, unlikely materials and enough hours to turn useful mistakes into techniques that didn't exist before.
Powered by cheap paint, expensive ideas and strong coffee.
It's not engraving. It's crafting. The laser is a tool; the piece happens in everything done before and after the beam.
Original methods, recipes not included
Techniques invented because buying the others was too easy.
The names are serious. Their origins, less so. Each technique grew from tests, useful accidents and the workshop's most dangerous question: “what if I try this?”
Read the Laboratory notesSpectrum Engraving™
Colour buried beneath black. The laser digs it out and decides how the story ends.
Madeira de Titanium™
Born from a mistake, it stalled a Dremel and officially earned its name.
Precision Reveal™
Layers, contrast and precise engraving. The process stays in the workshop.
How it works
It's a hobby.
Taken far too seriously.
LaserCrafts began as a way to unwind through ideas. It continues for the same reason: inventing things that don't exist yet is fun.
Anyone can make the same old stuff with a laser. The fun here is finding out what else it can do. There's no production line or secret materials imported from Mars: just a 12W diode, materials found in Portugal and the freedom to experiment until something new emerges.
That's why it's called LaserCrafts. Preparing, painting, cutting, layering, gluing and finishing are as much part of the piece as engraving. The laser isn't the whole job — just the loudest tool on the workbench.
“Making something premium with bargain materials isn't a limitation — it's the point.”
A strange idea is a good start
Got something in mind?
Tell me. If it involves wood, paint, a laser or an experiment that might work, we already have something to talk about.
Direct email
geral@lasercrafts.me
Behind the scenes
@lasercrafts.me