The Importance of Having a Laser in Your Shop: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

When it comes to adding new capabilities to your shop, few tools offer as much versatility and potential for profit as a laser. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of having a laser in your shop, including its cost, functionality, and potential for generating revenue.

Cost Considerations: The Laser vs. Other Options

One of the most significant advantages of a laser is its relatively low cost compared to other high-end machines on the market. Josh, a maker and shop owner, notes that his 7-watt laser costs almost $700, which may seem like a lot upfront, but it's a fraction of what you'd pay for some of the more advanced models. For example, he mentions his Glowforge, a 45-watt laser that cost around $6,000 at the time of purchase and now sells for over $7,000.

In contrast, Josh notes that his full-spectrum laser, which cost almost $13,000 when he bought it, was still a significant investment. However, this machine's software and functionality made it well worth the cost. Josh also mentions that his ThunderLaser, a 130-watt machine with additional options and functionality, is a great value considering its price tag.

The Cost of Materials: A Key Factor in Generating Revenue

While the initial cost of a laser may seem daunting, there are ways to offset this expense by generating revenue through the sale of customized products. Josh notes that he designed and printed his own book Nook covers using his 7-watt laser and sold them on Etsy for $40 each, which helped cover the cost of the machine.

This is just one example of how a laser can generate revenue in your shop. With the right designs and marketing strategies, you can create products that sell well and pay off the cost of the machine quickly. Additionally, having multiple products to offer can help spread out the upfront costs and make it easier to recoup investment.

Using the Laser Effectively: Preparation is Key

One of the most critical factors in getting the most out of your laser is preparing your designs thoroughly. Josh notes that he spent time designing and refining his products before cutting them out on the laser, which helped ensure a high-quality finish and reduced waste.

This emphasis on preparation highlights the importance of investing time and effort into learning how to use your laser effectively. With practice and patience, you can develop the skills needed to produce professional-grade customizations that will help you stand out in your market.

Software Considerations: The Cloud-Based Option

Another factor to consider when choosing a laser is its software. Josh notes that his Glowforge's cloud-based software was convenient but limited in terms of functionality. In contrast, he mentions that the ThunderLaser's software is more robust and allows for greater flexibility in design and customization.

If you're considering purchasing a laser, it's worth exploring different software options to determine which one best meets your needs. While some lasers may require physical connection to use their software, others offer cloud-based solutions that provide greater convenience and accessibility.

The Final Word: A Laser is Worth the Investment

In conclusion, having a laser in your shop can be a great way to add capabilities and generate revenue. By considering the cost of materials, using the laser effectively, and exploring different software options, you can make the most of this valuable tool. Whether you're looking to offer customized products or expand your existing product line, a laser is an investment that's well worth considering.

As Josh notes, having a laser in his shop has proven to be a game-changer for his business, allowing him to generate revenue quickly and pay off the cost of the machine over time. With careful planning, preparation, and execution, you can achieve similar results and take your shop to the next level with the help of a reliable and versatile laser.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey I'm Bob and I like to make stuff today we're going to talk about putting a laser in your wood shop and I know a lot of people have already made up their minds that they don't want to have a laser or a CNC router in their wood shop and that's totally fine but if you've been on the fence about it we're going to talk about why it can make your shop way better and make you more money years ago I bought my first laser and it's a glow Forge I've still got it it still works great but there are a few things about it that I'm not really crazy about one it's not very big so you can only cut a certain amount of stuff you have about this much area another thing is that the software while simple and easy to use is web-based so you can only use the machine if you've got an internet connection that's not great and then a few years later I needed to upgrade so I bought this full spectrum laser now this thing is 90 watt has a much bigger area it has a pass-through so you can take an entire sheet and push it through here but the software on this machine runs on the machine so you physically have to be connected to this machine and you don't get software updates unless you go out get them and install them on the machine so now we've upgraded from this one to a thunder laser just to be totally transparent we are partnering with thunder lasers so they did send us this machine this is the Nova 51 by thunderlaser and this thing is massive it is seriously big plus you can put an entire sheet through it now the big Improvement of this one over the last one is that it's 130 Watts with the right tip you can actually cut through three quarter inch plywood on this laser another thing that I really like about this one in particular is that it uses light burn which is a separate piece of software made by a company that updates it it's inexpensive and it's very easy to use so to do is show you this machine but also talk about why it's time to add a laser of whatever kind to your shop so the four things I want to talk about in this video are how lasers can save you time how they can make you money how they can add capability to your shop and yes we are going to talk about the cost of these machines so the first thing is how they can save you time so I make a lot of projects here and I like to make stuff that don't get seen on camera and a lot of those are prototyped here in this room using these lasers now it allows me to be able to take an idea and really quickly bring it out into the real world like this desktop arcade that I've been working on something like this was a fun idea that we were able to bring together and to have the tab and Slot Tolerance on this I really need a laser to be able to get that amount of quality now prototyping things like this is so fast and efficient using a laser I can model it in Fusion 360 like we do all of our projects click a couple buttons and the laser starts making it now once I'm able to be happy with my prototype I can then make real life versions and once I'm happy with this real life version I can batch out so many of these rather than me making one it can make 10 in that same amount of time now the automation that is inherent in a laser is so much more precise than I can be with any tool that I have in my traditional shop the time saving effort the rapid prototyping that it can make 10 when I can make one is such a valuable tool that I don't have in my workshop so by adding a laser in that space opens up my ability to make more money to save more time and to make a lot cooler stuff than I would have been able to make otherwise Josh mentioned making money and that's good because that's the next thing we need to talk about the whole point of having a laser in your shop is to make cool things but also to be able to make more money when you sell those things so let's talk about a few of the different ways that you can make money with a laser now one of the most common things that you're going to hear is people making unique objects in the case of the arcade all of those pieces were cut on the laser and all out of the same material but you can combine different materials to make different objects for instance jewelry is a fantastic thing that you can make on a laser you're not necessarily going to cut down pieces of metal for jewelry but you can cut down pieces of wood and leather and then connect them together with different little metal clasps and hooks to make earrings and necklaces and bracelets and cuffs and all sorts of awesome stuff that is unique and of course no matter what the object is or what material it's using it can be a unique design to you but then you can use the laser to make 20 or 30 of them you only have to design it one time so if you want to sell those in bulk you can totally do it and you can make even more money by customizing them and when it comes to customization there's also a bunch of different ways that you can do that if you make a unique item before you sell it to an individual you can customize it on the spot with the laser or you can actually just buy things off the shelf and customize those so imagine that you go to Target or some other store like that and you buy some cutting boards you can take those cutting boards back to your laser customize them with a logo or with a name and sell them to someone directly or you can just put cool designs on them to make them more unique and then sell them to a broad audience now we can actually prove that adding a customization to an object will make you more money I went to Etsy and looked around at a bunch of different objects but one that really stuck out to me were these nice looking but really simple Walnut boxes and it was 25 dollars to add a laser engraved name or logo to the top of the box now definitely it does not cost you twenty five dollars to add that so it's a significant amount of profit on top of the object itself there are tons of different examples on Etsy where customizing something will actually make you a lot of money per item and then if you sell a bunch of those items you're making a lot more money this is all leading to be able to pay off the machine that you've purchased so how do you figure out what to make and where to sell it A good rule of thumb when you're trying to develop a product is to look for gaps in a market so let's say that you're into Hot Wheels and you need a way to display a whole bunch of these little bitty cars well look for how other people do it and look for where there's a gap in that market that you can design something to fill so maybe you come up with some sort of a really nice looking display for a bunch of cars or a way to display a really special car you can start to design that thing to sell and then of course you can customize it with the name of the car or the person or whoever that you're selling it to but that's just one example of looking for a gap in a market and designing something to fill that Gap so another way to do this is to look for opportunities to serve somebody that you're already working with maybe you've already got a client or people that you already know like for instance let's say that you sell flowers and you have people that buy flowers from you all the time but those people also may need gifts to give with those flowers or some sort of a little card to go with those flowers that's another need that they might have and you've already got an attachment to them so make something to help those people so no matter what you come up with you still have to figure out where to sell it of course there's a million different ways and places to sell things but here are some ideas to help you get started one is a craft show it's a great place for you to make something by hand show it to another person in person face to face they get to hold it and see it and then they get to walk away with it now that doesn't have a huge scale and if you want to sell a whole lot more of something you're going to need to go somewhere like Etsy if you don't have personal experience Etsy was specifically made as a Marketplace for handmade Goods now that's kind of the truth these days but either way it has a huge reach it's a great opportunity for you to sell the stuff that you make another cool local option is a local store like a boutique these people often love to resell locally made goods and so they're looking for people in their area that hand make something and this can work in a couple of different ways one through Consignment where you put your stuff in their store and then you make money when they sell it the other option is often wholesale well they'll pay you up front a discounted rate to buy stuff from you that they can sell at a retail price either way it's a great way to get stuff that you've made into the hands of people that live near you when it comes to selling things the last little tip I've got for you as to where to sell them is to look where you're already involved for us we have a bunch of kids on different soccer teams and a bunch of the parents on those soccer teams actually use lasers and Screen Printing to make Goods to sell to other parents in our groups a lot of the things that get sold between parents or tumblers and t-shirts and coasters and not all those things are made out of wood the laser allows you to work in a bunch of different materials and for that we need to talk about its capabilities so like Bob said you can cut an array of materials on the laser cutter you can engrave things like wood you can cut through most of these to make cool projects but you can also do stuff that you might not think of like cardboard for that arcade we made earlier I also made packaging and I was able to make this custom made through Fusion 360 into the laser with like cool integrated zippers I couldn't do stuff like that in my shop so there's materials that we use on the laser I didn't even know about until we got the laser stuff like engravable plastic so it looks like wood and looks like metal and you can make really cool signs super easily by engraving straight into these I always assume lasers were super powerful can melt through just about anything but you can also cut very delicate things like paper you can make wedding invitations birthday invitations specialty cards by dialing down the intensity and making very detailed intricate Cuts like this and lastly the array of materials is so crazy that every time I go out to a store I can look at a piece of material and go I can burn that with a laser just like rugs so we decided to sell these in our store because I saw one of these at the store and it was blank and I said I wanted to say some and cool I can put it in a laser and I can do that lasers can take a lot of materials that you may not have thought of and made really custom items very simply now just like certain materials I would not cut with my woodworking tools in my shop you shouldn't cut certain things on a laser acrylics clear Plastics some of them are really good some of them are really not good things like abs and PVC you don't want to introduce into a laser because it can cause really terrible fumes and you don't want that so make sure you do your research as to what you can cut and what you can't cut with a laser cutter while many of the tools in my workshop are very precise a lot of them are really good at cutting straight lines the laser cutter can cut curves and cut precise angles a lot better than I can with any of the very expensive tools I currently have in my wood shop let's talk about safety comparing a laser to my traditional shop my son needed some elements for a school project and he was able to design things and cut them out here on the laser with minimal supervision and really minimal risk compared to him going into my wood shop I would have to teach him how to use things he would be pretty scared of the loud spinning death blades and so to compare safety with the laser and the wood up I would be a lot more comfortable allowing him to use that tool by himself than any of the tools in my shop now I know what you're thinking then two dudes are ignoring the very obvious fact that no one has mentioned yet these big machines cost money and we're going to talk about the actual cost of these things versus what you get for that money Josh has a 7 watt laser on his CNC at home and it cost almost 700 a seven watt laser is not really going to do that much for you just some basic engraving at my house I bought a glowforge which was six thousand dollars at the time now is almost seven thousand dollars and it's a 45 watt laser it's a pretty good machine but the software is cloud-based you have to be on the internet to use it and it has a limited size then after that I bought this full spectrum laser this thing was almost thirteen thousand dollars when I got it 90 Watts but again the software is a pretty big problem you have to physically be connected to this machine to be able to design the stuff that you want to work on that's not great then we upgraded to what I think is the super laser our thunderlaser now this is a fantastic machine with tons tons of additional options and functionality that the other ones just can't hang with it's 130 Watts which means you can cut through pretty much anything you want want and if you need to cut through three quarter inch plywood you can do that with an additional lens now on top of that you can actually mount a camera on the inside of this thing and thunder laser as a company is really great to deal with they give you lifetime support and you don't have to pay shipping when you get one of these giant things in addition to all the Fantastic Hardware you get to deal with you can use light burn which is a fantastic piece of software that works on a bunch of different machines and you can do that on any computer get your design work done get all your preparation done and then put it on the machine to cut it but you may be asking how much was this laser well it was over thirteen thousand dollars which I agree is like a used car but I want to prove to you that you could actually pay this thing off pretty easily Josh has an idea for this I went on Etsy to try to find a book Nook and each one was like sixty dollars and all it is is really thin material that goes on a bookshelf and has like a Whimsical interior I designed one of these in Fusion 360. cut it out on the Thunder laser and I can Mass produce these and so each one of of these is two or three dollars in material this is three mil MDF just MDF it's very inexpensive to get and easy to make now if you were to profit on each one of these let's say forty dollars a piece which is absolutely it's very conservative you would have to sell 325 on Etsy or some other Marketplace to completely pay off this machine so it is absolutely doable when you take into consideration all the different options we talked about before of places that you can sell the stuff and this is just one product it would be very easy to come up with several products to make your money back really quickly but before you actually invest in any of these machines I want to give you a suggestion make sure that you spend the time finishing your designs get your products ready and look for those holes in the different markets that you can fill with your own Solutions and get all that ready then buy the laser so you're not sitting on a machine worried about the cost for a long time if you've got all your designs ready as soon as you get the machine it can start making money alright so when it comes down to it I think that having a laser in your shop is a great way to add capability and it can pay for itself I would imagine when you bought your table saw or your miter saw you probably didn't quite understand how that tool would specifically make you money but you bought it anyway because it's a part of the shop well a laser is part of the shop but can specifically make you profit and that's a pretty awesome thing I think I've made my case to whether a laser is worthwhile having in your shop and some of you still may not agree and that's totally fine but we should definitely talk about it down in the comments thanks for watching now it's time for bloopers depending on the object and the level of customation customization handmade Goods on let on Etsy hey I'm gonna start over the object itself and the level of customation that I did it again I went looking now we can prove that adding this level of customation will actually I did it again dang it farts okay readyhey I'm Bob and I like to make stuff today we're going to talk about putting a laser in your wood shop and I know a lot of people have already made up their minds that they don't want to have a laser or a CNC router in their wood shop and that's totally fine but if you've been on the fence about it we're going to talk about why it can make your shop way better and make you more money years ago I bought my first laser and it's a glow Forge I've still got it it still works great but there are a few things about it that I'm not really crazy about one it's not very big so you can only cut a certain amount of stuff you have about this much area another thing is that the software while simple and easy to use is web-based so you can only use the machine if you've got an internet connection that's not great and then a few years later I needed to upgrade so I bought this full spectrum laser now this thing is 90 watt has a much bigger area it has a pass-through so you can take an entire sheet and push it through here but the software on this machine runs on the machine so you physically have to be connected to this machine and you don't get software updates unless you go out get them and install them on the machine so now we've upgraded from this one to a thunder laser just to be totally transparent we are partnering with thunder lasers so they did send us this machine this is the Nova 51 by thunderlaser and this thing is massive it is seriously big plus you can put an entire sheet through it now the big Improvement of this one over the last one is that it's 130 Watts with the right tip you can actually cut through three quarter inch plywood on this laser another thing that I really like about this one in particular is that it uses light burn which is a separate piece of software made by a company that updates it it's inexpensive and it's very easy to use so to do is show you this machine but also talk about why it's time to add a laser of whatever kind to your shop so the four things I want to talk about in this video are how lasers can save you time how they can make you money how they can add capability to your shop and yes we are going to talk about the cost of these machines so the first thing is how they can save you time so I make a lot of projects here and I like to make stuff that don't get seen on camera and a lot of those are prototyped here in this room using these lasers now it allows me to be able to take an idea and really quickly bring it out into the real world like this desktop arcade that I've been working on something like this was a fun idea that we were able to bring together and to have the tab and Slot Tolerance on this I really need a laser to be able to get that amount of quality now prototyping things like this is so fast and efficient using a laser I can model it in Fusion 360 like we do all of our projects click a couple buttons and the laser starts making it now once I'm able to be happy with my prototype I can then make real life versions and once I'm happy with this real life version I can batch out so many of these rather than me making one it can make 10 in that same amount of time now the automation that is inherent in a laser is so much more precise than I can be with any tool that I have in my traditional shop the time saving effort the rapid prototyping that it can make 10 when I can make one is such a valuable tool that I don't have in my workshop so by adding a laser in that space opens up my ability to make more money to save more time and to make a lot cooler stuff than I would have been able to make otherwise Josh mentioned making money and that's good because that's the next thing we need to talk about the whole point of having a laser in your shop is to make cool things but also to be able to make more money when you sell those things so let's talk about a few of the different ways that you can make money with a laser now one of the most common things that you're going to hear is people making unique objects in the case of the arcade all of those pieces were cut on the laser and all out of the same material but you can combine different materials to make different objects for instance jewelry is a fantastic thing that you can make on a laser you're not necessarily going to cut down pieces of metal for jewelry but you can cut down pieces of wood and leather and then connect them together with different little metal clasps and hooks to make earrings and necklaces and bracelets and cuffs and all sorts of awesome stuff that is unique and of course no matter what the object is or what material it's using it can be a unique design to you but then you can use the laser to make 20 or 30 of them you only have to design it one time so if you want to sell those in bulk you can totally do it and you can make even more money by customizing them and when it comes to customization there's also a bunch of different ways that you can do that if you make a unique item before you sell it to an individual you can customize it on the spot with the laser or you can actually just buy things off the shelf and customize those so imagine that you go to Target or some other store like that and you buy some cutting boards you can take those cutting boards back to your laser customize them with a logo or with a name and sell them to someone directly or you can just put cool designs on them to make them more unique and then sell them to a broad audience now we can actually prove that adding a customization to an object will make you more money I went to Etsy and looked around at a bunch of different objects but one that really stuck out to me were these nice looking but really simple Walnut boxes and it was 25 dollars to add a laser engraved name or logo to the top of the box now definitely it does not cost you twenty five dollars to add that so it's a significant amount of profit on top of the object itself there are tons of different examples on Etsy where customizing something will actually make you a lot of money per item and then if you sell a bunch of those items you're making a lot more money this is all leading to be able to pay off the machine that you've purchased so how do you figure out what to make and where to sell it A good rule of thumb when you're trying to develop a product is to look for gaps in a market so let's say that you're into Hot Wheels and you need a way to display a whole bunch of these little bitty cars well look for how other people do it and look for where there's a gap in that market that you can design something to fill so maybe you come up with some sort of a really nice looking display for a bunch of cars or a way to display a really special car you can start to design that thing to sell and then of course you can customize it with the name of the car or the person or whoever that you're selling it to but that's just one example of looking for a gap in a market and designing something to fill that Gap so another way to do this is to look for opportunities to serve somebody that you're already working with maybe you've already got a client or people that you already know like for instance let's say that you sell flowers and you have people that buy flowers from you all the time but those people also may need gifts to give with those flowers or some sort of a little card to go with those flowers that's another need that they might have and you've already got an attachment to them so make something to help those people so no matter what you come up with you still have to figure out where to sell it of course there's a million different ways and places to sell things but here are some ideas to help you get started one is a craft show it's a great place for you to make something by hand show it to another person in person face to face they get to hold it and see it and then they get to walk away with it now that doesn't have a huge scale and if you want to sell a whole lot more of something you're going to need to go somewhere like Etsy if you don't have personal experience Etsy was specifically made as a Marketplace for handmade Goods now that's kind of the truth these days but either way it has a huge reach it's a great opportunity for you to sell the stuff that you make another cool local option is a local store like a boutique these people often love to resell locally made goods and so they're looking for people in their area that hand make something and this can work in a couple of different ways one through Consignment where you put your stuff in their store and then you make money when they sell it the other option is often wholesale well they'll pay you up front a discounted rate to buy stuff from you that they can sell at a retail price either way it's a great way to get stuff that you've made into the hands of people that live near you when it comes to selling things the last little tip I've got for you as to where to sell them is to look where you're already involved for us we have a bunch of kids on different soccer teams and a bunch of the parents on those soccer teams actually use lasers and Screen Printing to make Goods to sell to other parents in our groups a lot of the things that get sold between parents or tumblers and t-shirts and coasters and not all those things are made out of wood the laser allows you to work in a bunch of different materials and for that we need to talk about its capabilities so like Bob said you can cut an array of materials on the laser cutter you can engrave things like wood you can cut through most of these to make cool projects but you can also do stuff that you might not think of like cardboard for that arcade we made earlier I also made packaging and I was able to make this custom made through Fusion 360 into the laser with like cool integrated zippers I couldn't do stuff like that in my shop so there's materials that we use on the laser I didn't even know about until we got the laser stuff like engravable plastic so it looks like wood and looks like metal and you can make really cool signs super easily by engraving straight into these I always assume lasers were super powerful can melt through just about anything but you can also cut very delicate things like paper you can make wedding invitations birthday invitations specialty cards by dialing down the intensity and making very detailed intricate Cuts like this and lastly the array of materials is so crazy that every time I go out to a store I can look at a piece of material and go I can burn that with a laser just like rugs so we decided to sell these in our store because I saw one of these at the store and it was blank and I said I wanted to say some and cool I can put it in a laser and I can do that lasers can take a lot of materials that you may not have thought of and made really custom items very simply now just like certain materials I would not cut with my woodworking tools in my shop you shouldn't cut certain things on a laser acrylics clear Plastics some of them are really good some of them are really not good things like abs and PVC you don't want to introduce into a laser because it can cause really terrible fumes and you don't want that so make sure you do your research as to what you can cut and what you can't cut with a laser cutter while many of the tools in my workshop are very precise a lot of them are really good at cutting straight lines the laser cutter can cut curves and cut precise angles a lot better than I can with any of the very expensive tools I currently have in my wood shop let's talk about safety comparing a laser to my traditional shop my son needed some elements for a school project and he was able to design things and cut them out here on the laser with minimal supervision and really minimal risk compared to him going into my wood shop I would have to teach him how to use things he would be pretty scared of the loud spinning death blades and so to compare safety with the laser and the wood up I would be a lot more comfortable allowing him to use that tool by himself than any of the tools in my shop now I know what you're thinking then two dudes are ignoring the very obvious fact that no one has mentioned yet these big machines cost money and we're going to talk about the actual cost of these things versus what you get for that money Josh has a 7 watt laser on his CNC at home and it cost almost 700 a seven watt laser is not really going to do that much for you just some basic engraving at my house I bought a glowforge which was six thousand dollars at the time now is almost seven thousand dollars and it's a 45 watt laser it's a pretty good machine but the software is cloud-based you have to be on the internet to use it and it has a limited size then after that I bought this full spectrum laser this thing was almost thirteen thousand dollars when I got it 90 Watts but again the software is a pretty big problem you have to physically be connected to this machine to be able to design the stuff that you want to work on that's not great then we upgraded to what I think is the super laser our thunderlaser now this is a fantastic machine with tons tons of additional options and functionality that the other ones just can't hang with it's 130 Watts which means you can cut through pretty much anything you want want and if you need to cut through three quarter inch plywood you can do that with an additional lens now on top of that you can actually mount a camera on the inside of this thing and thunder laser as a company is really great to deal with they give you lifetime support and you don't have to pay shipping when you get one of these giant things in addition to all the Fantastic Hardware you get to deal with you can use light burn which is a fantastic piece of software that works on a bunch of different machines and you can do that on any computer get your design work done get all your preparation done and then put it on the machine to cut it but you may be asking how much was this laser well it was over thirteen thousand dollars which I agree is like a used car but I want to prove to you that you could actually pay this thing off pretty easily Josh has an idea for this I went on Etsy to try to find a book Nook and each one was like sixty dollars and all it is is really thin material that goes on a bookshelf and has like a Whimsical interior I designed one of these in Fusion 360. cut it out on the Thunder laser and I can Mass produce these and so each one of of these is two or three dollars in material this is three mil MDF just MDF it's very inexpensive to get and easy to make now if you were to profit on each one of these let's say forty dollars a piece which is absolutely it's very conservative you would have to sell 325 on Etsy or some other Marketplace to completely pay off this machine so it is absolutely doable when you take into consideration all the different options we talked about before of places that you can sell the stuff and this is just one product it would be very easy to come up with several products to make your money back really quickly but before you actually invest in any of these machines I want to give you a suggestion make sure that you spend the time finishing your designs get your products ready and look for those holes in the different markets that you can fill with your own Solutions and get all that ready then buy the laser so you're not sitting on a machine worried about the cost for a long time if you've got all your designs ready as soon as you get the machine it can start making money alright so when it comes down to it I think that having a laser in your shop is a great way to add capability and it can pay for itself I would imagine when you bought your table saw or your miter saw you probably didn't quite understand how that tool would specifically make you money but you bought it anyway because it's a part of the shop well a laser is part of the shop but can specifically make you profit and that's a pretty awesome thing I think I've made my case to whether a laser is worthwhile having in your shop and some of you still may not agree and that's totally fine but we should definitely talk about it down in the comments thanks for watching now it's time for bloopers depending on the object and the level of customation customization handmade Goods on let on Etsy hey I'm gonna start over the object itself and the level of customation that I did it again I went looking now we can prove that adding this level of customation will actually I did it again dang it farts okay ready\n"