My first post (Ok 2nd technically) lol

Hello all and nice to meet you! Just wanted to introduce myself to you fine people. My name is Ted and I am a 35 y/o restaurant designer. I work from home as I have my own business and love all things techy. As I am sure most here are, I am originally a flashlight fanatic but have always loved lasers. I just recently got a little more serious about buying them lol. Thru the years I have had little rinky dink laser pointers (the kind you buy from Rite-aid or the ice cream man) but now own a supposed 50W and supposed 5W lol. I say supposed because they are from China and were fairly cheap. Well one was $63 and the other was $6. I look forward to learning enough to build one from scratch and hope I can offer some help along the way. Thank you and I look forward to meeting you all!

Edit: Ok after a little more research here I know my gold shiny bad boy is not 50W lol. It is bright and powerful though. Its prolly 450nm (Blue) and will cut through plastic and cardboard easy though and it will burn the hell out of skin haha. Powered by 2x 16340's

Here are my babies...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7...ktsRTJtbkFpNmM

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7...C1ZempWUGRwMlE

The Golden dildo as I like to call it lol