Genuine Leather Baseball

If you want to etch a baseball, do not use one with a synthetic leather cover. The type of synthetic leather used contains PVC. According to wikipedia, "plastics with a chlorine content (such as vinyl, PVC) produce corrosive chlorine gas when lasered, which combines with Hydrogen in the air to produce vaporized hydrochloric acid which can damage a laser engraving system."



Sandpaper (optional)

I sanded the markings off my baseball. It seems to me you should probably be able to buy baseballs without any logos or anything from somewhere out there on the internet, but I haven't really looked.



Toilet Paper Roll

Without the toilet paper roll or some other cylindrical/conical object, one side of the rotating bit on the rotary attachment will be in the way of the laser. (If that's not clear, see the attached picture of the ball in the attachment.)

