Cooking Utensils

[sarahpassotphotograp]

So, I would like to engrave some bamboo cooking utensils. Obviously not a flat surface. Can I do this?? Thank you!

[markevans36301]

If the curve is not extreme, yes. The glowforge will always think that it is engraving a flat surface but I’ve had great luck with slight round over.

[sarahpassotphotograp]

Wonderful! Thanks! Do I need to use the masking tape over every surface or just certain ones? I’m sorry to ask another question! Lol! I just have so many of them being a newbie!

[markevans36301]

Any surface that you don’t mask will leave out gassing marks. For making utility items from plywood I don’t bother but for something like wood utensils I’d definitely mask.

[sarahpassotphotograp]

Awesome! Thanks!

[marmak3261]

Here is one of several topics that discuss engraving wooden spoons or utensils.

Engraving inside bowl of wooden spoon

I’m trying to engrave the concave part of a birch wooden spoon. Auto focus and manual focus moves my design around during printing as does set focus. Occasionally I can get the set focus to work, but it takes 9 or 10 tries, and I get multiple errors and need to restart my UI and even shut down my GF. See pics for reference. Thanks in advance for any help!! Here’s my design before I use set focus on the deepest part of the spoon: [Center%20set%20focus%20before] And this is after: [27%20AM]

Best results are a jig. Might have to remove tray if it is a thicker object. So that is an added step to work out. But they work fine.

[sarahpassotphotograp]

Woohoo! Thanks so much!!