Laser cut parts

[Neosandy0]

I thought I would try my hand at a balsa scratch build of a biplane I made from foam board. I don't have a band saw so each piece is hand cut. I got to wondering if any of the model builders will laser cut custom orders. It sounds far out but does anyone know of a model builder that does custom laser cutting?? I think it would be cool if there was a service
that you could upload a PDF of the plans for a plane and get the parts laser cut

 

[bisco]

take a look over on rc groups. there's a lot of balsa builders there

 

[Houndpup Rc]

I thought I would try my hand at a balsa scratch build of a biplane I made from foam board. I don't have a band saw so each piece is hand cut. I got to wondering if any of the model builders will laser cut custom orders. It sounds far out but does anyone know of a model builder that does custom laser cutting?? I think it would be cool if there was a service
that you could upload a PDF of the plans for a plane and get the parts laser cut

I don't know much about Balsa builds, but something people are doing nowadays, is 3D print out the Balsa parts if you know how to 3D model (Something like this wouldn't be too hard) you could just photo copy the templates and bring into CAD to trace out👍 3D printers are wayyyyy cheaper than laser cutters (About $150+) and are super handy for stuff like firewalls and control horns in your foamboard builds!

 

[Merv]

...3D printers are wayyyyy cheaper than laser cutters...

Agreed, 3D printers are much cheaper than CO2 lasers. But a diode laser will cut balsa and light plywood & cost about the same as a 3D printer.

 

[HappyRCFlyer]

I do custom requests, my website is happyrcflyer.com. PDF's have a range of mere, crude imported graphics to vector and cad based origin based with the latter being much less work since I don't have to fix and redraw the lot.