Dark Stained Wood Engravement

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@geek2nurse

don’t think there’s a way to make dark wood engrave light

It can definitely be done,

Hello Stained, meet unstained!

So there has been discussion on laser-safe wood finishes and lasering finished woods. I will leave that discussion to another conversation already in the forums. Suffice it for here that caution is HIGHLY advised. Just wanted to show you what high speed, low power does on stained wood. All these were done in several passes, for various reasons. You burn away stained wood without darkening the wood underneath. [22087] [84765] [24482] [471222] [495698] Then I put a little oil and wax on it …

I’ve never tried it but it’s doable. Engraves get darker as speed goes down and/or power goes up. So faster and less power is the way to go here. It might take multiple passes to get good depth, but it’s attainable.