Marking stainless steel with a diode...secret formulae

Thought I’d try it out with my diode laser this morning. I gave on old bbq spatula 2 coats of dry moly. Allow to dry in between. I have a sculpfun S9 diode laser and I have light burn. I set the fill for 90% power at 500mm/min.
As you can see it seems to work OK. I clean off with methylated spirits. Its dark enough, more of a dark gray than black. Ignore the other marks they are old marks.

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