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Hey! Been quiet for a few weeks. I’ll get to why at the bottom. First, the thing actually worth your time. The OneLaser XRF is the cheapest I’ve ever seen it. It’s part of their mid-year summer sale, and OneLaser is running the usual “$6,499, now $3,999, save $2,500” banner on it. Here’s the thing. I track the XRF price every single day. It has never sold for $6,499. The real number is this. Most of the year it sits around $4,695. Back in April it crept up to $5,299, the highest I’ve ever logged. Right now it’s $3,999. That’s about $700 off the normal street price, and $1,300 under where it sat two months ago. It’s also $20 away from the lowest price I’ve ever recorded on it. Basically the floor. So no, it’s not $2,500 off. But it is the best price this machine has ever had. If the 38W RF tube XRF was already on your list, this is the window. (The XT glass-tube version is on sale too if you don’t need the RF tube and want to spend less.) Now the fun one. xTool dropped the O1 Omni today, and they sent me the little sample box of printed cards before the machine. I don’t have the printer yet. But I’ve been staring at these cards all morning, reacting out loud in the shop. It’s a 4-in-1. UV, UV DTF, plus a fabric bundle that does DTG and DTF. So you can print straight onto cotton. That’s the part that separates it from the eufyMake E1 everyone’s been buying. It starts at $1,699 for the single UV. The eufyMake E1 is $2,499. And there’s a dual-head UV version. If you remember, the big knock on the eufyMake was how slow it printed. Two heads fixes that. It’s also got the auto-focus alignment they nailed on the P3 with cup engraving, plus the rotary for tumblers with a live 3D preview. It’s pre-order right now, ships around August. I’m going to get one in and actually test it before I tell you whether it lives up to the cards. But on paper this is the most interesting printer xTool has made. Okay, why I’ve been quiet. My wife had foot surgery and has basically been immobile since May , so I’ve been home get a workout with our stairs and driving our kids around for summer camp. She’s healing up great. It just ate most of my shop time. But since I had extra time at home I fell down some absurd rabbit holes. More on one of those below. Laser on, Brandon P.S. The rabbit hole. I built a thing that tracks college football programs’ private jets from public flight data, then matches the flights to recruiting visits. It’s way too detailed and I love it. It’s live at jetsweep.live if you want to see what happens when I’m stuck on the couch with a laptop for three weeks. |