Bobbin Flatwork Material

[spencehj]

Hi all, my friend has been making his own guitars in his woodworking shop and is having to hand cut the bobbin flatwork that is the pickup. He asked me to cut it on the GF but I have no clue about this material. Has anyone cut this material before? It is vulcanized fiber board and is .093" thickness for the bottom of the pickup and .062" for the top. (Will have to print 2 bottom and top) The retailer says the material is excellent for laser cutting. Help?!

[deirdrebeth]

Pretty sure you’re the first for that one! Luckily there is a tried and true method for determining settings on a new material, and you’ll only need to waste a tiny amount to get them

New material cut test method

Don’t know what settings to use on a material? The only way to be sure is to test. Good news! You can effectively test on a thin strip on the edge of your material, it’s fast and easy. I use this shape to do so (SVG attached): [Material_test] Click here to download/save Or click here for the ZIP: Material_test.zip (3.3 KB) To use: Set the first operation to score (the numbers). You’ll use these to identify your cut pieces later. Set each of the curve shapes to a power/speed combo t…

[spencehj]

thank you!

[evansd2]

@shop has done some very cool guitar-related projects too, definitely worth checking his stuff out.

[shop]

haven’t worked with that yet. i’d follow @deirdrebeth’s link for testing. post back what your results look like. i’m curious.