3d engrave help

[evansd2]

@eflyguy

but not detailed things with subtle contrast like photographic images.

This is very much subjective. I have engraved photos with great success with 3d/vary power.

Glowforge and CNC collaboration coffee table

My buddy @shogun is making a coffee table, and enlisted me. He’s going to CNC pockets into a table and insert my engravings. He’s a big music lover so he chose a wide variety of album covers. Everything is engraved in solid maple that he ripped and planed to 1/8” thick. Each tile is 4.3” square, and took roughly 30 mins to engrave (high lpi, you pay the price for darker engraves). You can do the math but it came out to roughly 6.5 years of engrave time. [image] [image] (Fleetwood Mac is out…

All engraves were done with vary power.