The xTool F1 is a unique portable laser cutter and engraver that you can take to a job site, a friend’s house or a craft fair. It has a small footprint and a compact size complete with a handle. The laser is rated as a Class 1 when the lid is down, making it safe to operate around customers, kids and pets.
Inside the tiny compartment – its cutting surface is only about four inches square – are two Galvo mounted lasers. One is a 2-watt Infrared laser that can engrave metal and plastic, the other a medium power, 10 watt blue Diode laser that can cut Balsa wood up to 8mm thick and dark acrylic up to 5mm. Galvo lasers remain in one place, with their light beam shifted across the cutting surface by fast moving mirrors. The F1’s Galvo laser does a really cool trick – it can display a harmless blue preview of the image you’re lasering, like a name, for…
