Has anyone else tried this? It’s a post consumer recycle material that I found in an Etsy shop. It cuts very well, and is remarkably sturdy. It is only 2mm, but I am going to try it as a draft material anyway. I made a cigar box and the Cotton Candy ornament out of it. Takes glue very well. The box was a Box-o-matic and stayed together quite well even before I glued it. I was thinking it might be something especially useful for the Aura, as it cuts at a low temp/speed. I think the company is Danish, but I’m not certain. The website was easy to find. I couldn’t find any settings for it, so am trying my own - the score was too light, but cutting at 175/full seemed okay. It does have a lot of char, so it’s messy, but I’m enough of a ‘60’s eco freak not to really care. Would make good layered designs, I think - lighter than wood.
Oh, the Etsy shop was Maker Stock.
That looks an awful lot like mdf? You say it’s lightweight though… maybe the same stuff as whatever mdf formula they use in the thick GF plywoods?
Huh it’s something different. https://eska.com
you can request a sample.
looks like it’s made from recycled paper. from the brochure below;
Eska®board
A three-layer laminated solid board, made of 100% recycled paper. Lays flat, stays flat.
some more specs. it comes anywhere from 1mm to 4mm thick.
Thank you for the details! I can’t remember stuff like that anymore.
It’s good to be vigilant when trying stuff like this. I recently looked into a new “eco-friendly” composite product made from rice hulls. I was able to talk to one of the science people at the company and, it turned out the binder they use is PVC.
good thought. probably worth reaching out to Eska.
(pvc doesn’t sound very “eco-friendly”)
i sent an email to Eska asking for an MDSD or at least some components so we can validate if it’s laser safe.
Or safe. They primarily market it as a building material for housing.
According to the websit it is laser safe and doesn’t contain PVC. I’m not stupid !
where did you find that on the eska site? i did some looking and couldn’t find it (but their site is an annoying mess of trying to be “fancy marketing”).
i searched “site:https://eska.com laser” and i only found the “laser” reference on one page.
but it’s not clear on this page they mean the eska paper is laser safe, it reads more to me that they have laser cutting capabilities.
not calling you stupid, just trying to validate the laser safety. it’s always good to be able to find specs when looking at new material. this stuff looks really cool.
Nothing I posted was directed at you or, intended to imply you were stupid. My apologies if it came across that way. You have been around here for a long time and, I assumed you had checked that for the material you are working with.
This thread made me think of my recent experience with an “eco friendly” material I looked into trying, where I was surprised to find it contains PVC. I thought I would mention it for general interest.
Sorry. I know you didn’t mean it that way. As slowly as I type I still type faster than I think sometimes.
I apoplogize.
all good. just making sure you knew we weren’t trying to bash you.
Looks like it’s high end packaging chipboard?
Similar to a quality mat board, which would explain the lot of char.
Yeah it reads like marketing-infused mat board to me too.
to be fair, they sell up to 4mm thick, which is not an easy thickness to find in chipboard and makes a much stronger box than the more standard thicknesses.
maybe the contents aren’t super special, just 100% PCW. but the thickness and the color facing options are not as common.
