Way to go Delilah! LIKE THE LASER SOURCE so it looks like it's cutting the words. #10 with the "Laser Engraving" on the side with the laser source above is elegant. Digging it! #5 is also good! Again the laser source is good cutting the words. It's larger and brigher and the outlined word "Salem" brings it out more. #4 is a little too simplistic as compared to your other two. Nice work!
It looks like there is a white/gray fog circle in the background of the black. Can we eliminate that and go with straight black and brighten the red. It may be the the red would be brighter without the fog effect.
We are struggling with the neon look vs solid letters now. We shared with friends and they picked up that it looked like a neon sign and we are not sure that is the look we wanted. Can you keep the idea but switch it up to solid letters. Maybe or maybe not leaving the last letter "M" unfilled at the very end so the viewer gets the idea that the laser is constructing the letters?