Thin & Sheet Metal Laser Cutting in Los Angeles, CA

Our fiber laser handles mild and carbon steel up to about 1/2 inch, plus stainless, aluminum, and brass in thinner gauges. Send the material and thickness with your file and we'll confirm it's within range before cutting.

Vector outlines work best: DXF or DWG are ideal, and we also accept AI, EPS, SVG, or vector PDF. Convert text to outlines and keep everything as closed paths so the laser reads a clean cut line.

Fiber-laser edges come out clean with a light heat-affected zone; we deburr every part as standard. From there you can leave it raw or add brushing, primer, powder coat, or clear coat to prevent rust on steel.

Thin sheet is the easy end for a fiber laser — there is less material to pierce, so thin-gauge steel, stainless, aluminum and brass cut fast and with very little heat left in the part. The practical limit comes from the drawing rather than from the sheet: the smallest feature we hold is about 0.03 in and parts come off at ±0.005 in. Send the gauge together with the tightest slot, hole or web on the part and we will confirm it is in range before cutting.

Shims, spacers, diaphragms, faceplates, stencils, cover plates, brackets and thin decorative panels — anything that is a flat profile in sheet. The laser cuts straight from your vector outlines, so there is no die to build: a part that would need tooling somewhere else is only a file here.

One part is a normal order. Nothing has to be tooled up first — the setup is your drawing — so a prototype and a production run use the same file. Cutting starts at $85 per part including setup and material; at quantity, parts are nested tight on the sheet, which trims scrap and brings the per-part price down.

Yes. Cutting and our engraving and etching run on lasers in the same shop, so send the outline and the artwork as one vector drawing on separate layers and the part is cut and marked from that single file. A legend, serial number or logo then lands square to the holes instead of being aligned to holes somebody else drilled.

The laser is in our Sun Valley shop, inside the city of Los Angeles, and we cut for businesses throughout the San Fernando Valley and greater LA. Finished parts can be picked up here once they pass QC, and standard-size U.S. orders over $100 ship free by ground if you would rather not drive.

Standard turnaround is 3-5 business days once the material and the cut file are confirmed, with 24-hour rush available. Clean closed vector paths with the gauge stated are what keep a job on the fast track — most delay starts in file prep, not at the laser.