Sedona · Verde Valley · Flagstaff
The only conservation-grade
laser in Northern Arizona.
Bronze. Stone. Wood. Adobe. We remove corrosion, soot, graffiti and failed coatings with a 300 W pulsed fiber laser — no chemicals, no abrasives, and nothing taken off the original surface.
Free within the service area · Mobile — we come to the piece
Before you worry
“Is that thing going to burn my stuff?”
It is the first question everybody asks, and it deserves a demonstration rather than a paragraph. In this video the laser lifts ink off a sheet of paper and leaves the paper unscorched.
Paper chars at roughly 230°C and has almost no thermal mass. If this process worked by heating the surface, there would be a hole. Your bronze, your beams and your adobe are vastly tougher than a sheet of paper.
How the pulse worksWhy laser
Every other method takes something off that you can't put back.
Sandblasting erodes historic masonry by up to a millimetre per treatment and rounds off every detail it touches. Chemical strippers soak into porous stone and keep working after the crew leaves. Pressure washing puts water into a building that has already been soaked.
A pulsed laser works on a different principle entirely. Every material has an ablation threshold — the energy density at which it starts to vaporize. Soot, rust, paint and biological growth all have a far lower threshold than the bronze, stone or timber underneath them.
Tune the beam above one and below the other, and the contamination leaves as vapor while the original surface never knows you were there.
It is selective
The beam removes the layer you target and stops at the layer you don't. Patina, tool marks, foundry stamps, VIN numbers and saw marks all survive.
It is cold
Nanosecond pulses deposit energy faster than heat conducts into the substrate. Wood never reaches its ~200°C char point. Aircraft aluminium stays under 120°C.
It leaves nothing behind
No grit in the flower beds, no chemical runoff, no rinse water, no blast media to contain and dispose of. Residue is captured at the extractor.
You can watch it work
There is no dwell time and no guessing. The operator sees exactly what is coming off, in real time, and stops on the line you agree to.
300 W
Pulsed fiber laser
< 120°C
Substrate temperature
0
Chemicals or abrasives
Microns
Not millimetres
What we clean
Five kinds of work. One machine.
The argument is the same every time — remove the layer that shouldn't be there, keep everything underneath it. What changes is who is asking and what is at stake.
Bronze · Stone · Mixed media
Art & Sculpture
Outdoor bronze in high desert sun and monsoon rain does not stay the way the artist left it. We take the corrosion, the streaking and the failed wax off — and leave the patina, the tool marks and the foundry stamps exactly where they are.
Learn more→Soot · Char · Odor-bearing residue
Fire & Smoke Damage
Smoke does not just sit on a surface — it drives into open grain and porous stone and keeps releasing odor for years. Laser removes soot and the residue layer under it without water, without sanding away the profile, and without turning an exposed beam into a replacement line item.
Learn more→Stone · Adobe · Ironwork · Timber
Historic & Architectural
Sandblasting erodes historic masonry by up to a millimeter every time it is used, and you only get so many millimeters. Laser cleaning is measured in microns and it is repeatable — which is why it is the method conservators specify on buildings that cannot be replaced.
Learn more→Rust · Paint · Undercoating
Classic & Collector Automotive
Media blasting warps thin sheet metal and rounds off every stamping it touches. On a numbers-matching car, that is not a cosmetic problem — it is a provenance problem. Laser strips the coating and leaves the stamp.
Learn more→Corrosion · Coatings · Weld & NDT prep
Industrial & Aviation
This machine was built for aircraft maintenance before it was ever pointed at a sculpture. Corrosion removal on airframes and components, weld and bond prep, mold cleaning and NDT surface prep — done on site, dry, with the substrate kept cool.
Learn more→Not on the list?
If it has something on it that shouldn't be there, it is worth a photo and a conversation. We will tell you honestly whether laser is the right tool.
Ask us →
The actual machine · FP-300
The equipment
An aviation laser, pointed at a bronze.
The FP-300 was not built for restoration work. It was built to strip corrosion off aircraft — where a warped panel or an annealed spar is a flight-safety issue, and where the tolerance for damaging the substrate is exactly zero.
That is the whole reason it belongs on a sculpture. The precision an airframe demands is the same precision a 19th-century patina demands. Most laser cleaning outfits run continuous-wave industrial units built to move fast over steel. This is a pulsed system — slower, far more controllable, and the only kind that has any business near wood, stone or art.
Full specifications
The rig as it travels — laser, control case, transformer, extraction and generator
Credentials & reach
Certified to run it, equipped to bring it to you.
A Class 4 laser in untrained hands is a liability. Here is the paperwork behind the person holding it — and the reason the site does not need to have power.
OSHA laser safety certified
National OSHA Foundation laser safety certification — the qualification that governs running a Class 4 laser around people and property.
Factory trained on the FP-300
Trained by the manufacturer on this specific machine, not a generic operator course.
Scissor lift certified
Required to reach architectural bronze, building façades and anything above head height, safely and legally.
Running this laser since 2024
Previously Laser Arkansas, doing aviation, industrial and architectural work before bringing the machine to Sedona.
We carry our own power
The whole rig travels — laser, control case, extraction and a generator. There does not need to be power at the site, which means a sculpture garden, a trailhead, a burned-out structure or a ranch gate are all workable.
Service area
Based here. Not driving up from Phoenix.
Arizona's laser cleaning companies are all in Phoenix and Tucson, two hours south, and all of them are set up for industrial rust. We are in the Verde Valley, and the assessment is free inside it.
Outside the area? Ask anyway — the rig travels for the right project.
Send us a photo. We'll tell you straight.
Most jobs can be scoped from a few clear pictures. If laser is the wrong tool for what you have, we will say so and point you at the right one.
Free within the service area · Sedona · Verde Valley · Flagstaff