Engraving on Cork

[lmware916]

Has anyone done any Engraving on cork material. Im personalizing some candle lids made of cork material not sure of settings I should use.

[deirdrebeth]

Lots of it! It doesn’t engrave deeply, solely a surface mark, but it lasts and doesn’t take much power at all!

Cork redeux

I’d been wanting to recalibrate my settings for doing cork since I got my production unit so I finally got some time to sit down and do a quick test. I still had some scraps from Ikea place mats. First was getting some reliable engraving settings. I found that using speed 1000 and power 20 with variable power setting for the greyscale worked well for me. [image] which resulted in an etch that didn’t dig into the material at all, but had nice crisp, dark lines. [IMG_20180121_174813] ran so…

(and do a search for cork, you’ll see so many projects!)

PS, I moved your post to Beyond the Manual because that’s the only place we’re allowed to talk about settings

[lmware916]

Got it. Thanks for your help. I’m new to this.

[evansd2]

@lmware916

I’m new to this.

The good news is that there are so many resources here. Always try searching for whatever material you’re thinking of “maple”, “baltic birch”, “acrylic” etc.

Also, there are some really great getting started posts like this one:

Getting started

The Glowforge team recommends working through your first prints by following along with the examples shown here to learn where everything is: They have also recently added instructions with video on using the Manual settings here: Working with Manual Settings And there are methods for Enhancing your Photo Engraves and Cutting Out a Shape as well. (You can click on the topic headers in the left-hand column for even more information.) That particular page is also handy if you have any p…

Sooner or later you 're also going to want to know about masking:

Cheapest 12" wide masking tape

Like @jbmanning5, I get perfectear plus from signwarehouse.com for $40 for a 300 foot roll, shipped. I’ve used both perfectear and transferrite, I prefer perfectear, but they aren’t that different. I was also tipped off to this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085635HFN

And how to test a cut to get the right settings:

Has anyone been cutting 0.37-0.40 material?

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Enjoy!

[bansai8creations]

I’ve engraved “cork leather”–pretty sure just used PG settings for leather–used either medium or thick pending the thickness of the material. And I got a nice depth, similar to leather.

But this is very smooth, and I’ve not engraved other versions/configurations of cork.

But as noted above, always test–even if it means buying an extra piece to do it.