GLOWFORGE - Does It Still Work TWO Years Later? [WhenGeeksCraft]

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

If anybody is interested in purchasing a Glowforge you can use our referral code to get: $500 off a pro or $250 off a plus. We'll get credit too! Use the link below. We love our Glowforge. Feel free to message us with any questions! glowforge.us/r/DSKCNJZL

[@markk3453]

thanks for sharing on and I hope your in your new home and settled in by now.

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

We are! and the glowforge made it :)

[@karenturner5443]

Thank you for info.

[@wilmercb]

Great info! Are you looking other brands? eg. Full Spectrum Muse? Thanks

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

I would love to get a larger format laser but that's a down the road option

[@luv2craftcards]

Do you make a lot of stuff where you're constantly using it?

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

I use the glowforge very regularly

[@luv2craftcards]

I think the basic is up to $4000

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

Apparently it is now. That is truely insane to me.

[@karlfimm]

Interesting one and two year videos, thanks. I love my big Chinese machine but it's good to see what advantages the GlowForge offers. I'm thinking about how I can add a camera to my machine.

[@mikemcdonough1793]

Have you replaced the Laser Tube yet?

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

Nope!

[@TFJotin]

I also installed the fan that they use here and its soooo much better. I did get complaints about smell outside from my neighbors so I had to attach a filter to the outside hose.

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

hahahaha maybe im a bad neighbor. i never consider them in the smell hahahha

[@TFJotin]

@@WhenGeeksCraft If you do plan on using the glowforge in an apartment I would consider it. I had about 700 orders for ornaments and apparently around the house smelled like burning wood 24/7

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

i am going to be in an apartment but im never batching out that much stuff. I def see the benefit though of the filter for apartment life now that you mention it. wood burning smell in an apartment is probs TERRIFING to people that dont know its a safe laser.

[@TFJotin]

@@WhenGeeksCraft Hahaha yeah, exactly. one person actually asked if my place was on fire.

[@debbieshaner1629]

@@TFJotin can you link to the filter you installed?

[@TFJotin]

I bought the pro and the passthrough slot has been great. To be honest though, it wasn't "great" until they included the passthrough slot function to align prints. Since then its been just amazing. I have yet to have a print misalign when I use it. I've been able to print out lots of large items. I use it a lot to cut leather gussets for bags. I used to split the gusset in half and stitch the middle. Now I just cut the whole gusset with the passthrough.

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

interesting. good to know!

[@rehabmax]

I think one of the drawbacks is that it cannot handle a rotary attachment. I am surprised they have not upgraded the unit as it has been out for several years now.

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

I think it's just because of how much taller it would have to be honestly. It's a big machine already, adding height would make it quite large

[@taast5157]

The fast lane is really discouraging. It just makes the company look sketchy. It’s a gimmick to get more money.

[@mr.dangrande9344]

Question about the fan… If you use an inline fan, do you disable the Glowforge fan? If so, how? Thanks.

[@kanati]

Not only is the box "quite the box", but if you have to send the glowforge back to the mothership for repair.. you HAVE to use that box. And if you don't have it, you have to buy a new one. And the BOX... is 250 bux.

[@og929]

Do you have the link to the inline fan also can I put on even if I have a filter? Tia

[@Grimm_Book]

I thought l was finally gonna get one but that shipping cost Holy crap

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

To be fair though....the box is insanely over engineered lol

[@x2foreyou]

just logon they have free shipping in the US

[@StormWaltz73]

Still just seems too much like a hobby grade machine. Put the 7k down on an Epilog and know the machine can run in a production environment.

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

It truly all depends on your use for it

[@jav9888]

Great VID, my Front Carriage Plate V-Wheel broke, Im from Canada and no one sells these(that I know of yet). The funny part was I was doing preventative maintenance so nothing would break. Im waiting for GF to send me replacement but now I'm in downtime, and orders have piled up. I wish they would sell these on their main site so i could order 4 or 6 of them. I dont understand why they dont sell more items on that page. If anyone knows where i can buy aftermarket ones let me know thanks !! **Update Carriage plate v wheel $7.42 for a pair Pulley wheel $8.73 from GF reps but you must order through site **

[@monicarubits2261]

"Nah I’m playing Valheim...” I’m for it

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

hahahahhaha thats all he has been doing

[@TFJotin]

I feel like the material you're buying from amazon is overpriced. Could you not get larger sheets for much cheaper? what I have been doing is going to home depot and getting the 2 feet by 4 feet mdf and having them cut it into quarters for 7$. You're currently paying about 8 cents a square inch I think. I'm paying about .006 cents a square inch. Unless my math is off, and boy am I bad at math lol.

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

Hahahahahaha yea we could but I like the finish on the amazon stuff a bit better. If I was batching out products I would go the home depot route

[@STARHARIS]

FIRST :)

[@WhenGeeksCraft]

welcome! we only do videos like this once a year so dont worry we arent a review channel lol just helping out the masses understand that our glowforge still works

[@STARHARIS]

@@WhenGeeksCraft :)