Thank you!
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I just really think that - as much as I love my GF- I need to be considering the environment a little more. Was hoping this would be a way to start.
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thanks! always better safe than sorry.
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That’s what I thought. And truly, I think the GF community needs to be more concerned about our impact on the environment. Using post consumer recycle is a start.
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Really? I get confused about all this. White glue and wood glue are poly vinyls, often PVAc. That’s not PVC but stupidly I confuse them a lot.
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Right! It’s the chlorine rather than the poly vinyl that’s the issue. The concern is combustion products. Stuff like PVC produces HCl (hydrochloric acid) vapor when burned, which corrodes components and lungs.
Again, to be clear, I was talking about a different product from a different company. I talked to two people there, who both confirmed their stuff is rice hulls in a PVC resin. They consider that “eco friendly” because they are creating the resin from some industrial waste stream. They asked for suggestions for alternatives but, stopped responding to me when I pointed them at other companies making less toxic bio resins.
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Thank you. I took HS Chem ages ago and a couple of college ones ( still ages ago ) but I never use it and so easily forget it.
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It was the colors that made me try this. I’ve been experimenting with dying/staining stuff before I cut it because painting takes so long and honestly, I’m not very good at it, but it’s hard to tell what processes will end up with something safe to laser. I love the Romark colored woods, but they are very pricey. The Eska board made from jeans looks very cool!
Thanks for being so nice- I can fly off the handle when I think people are assuming I am stupid…long history there.
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i think we’re pretty accepting as long as you don’t double/triple/quadruple down and get angry about it. 
and yeah, the color could be interesting. i’m also wondering what using that jaquard decolorant might look like on one of those boards. instead of dark engrave, maybe just removing the color. it worked on a sheet of paper for me (not with the laser).
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I missed the decolourant -had to look that up. it worked on paper? i had been cosidering trying some of this stuff on baltic birch to dye it https://a.co/d/3qsstwP Mixol (Amazon)
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this was the paper test i did. it was not on the laser yet. that may require a lot more finesse. this was just me taking a paintbrush, writing “hi,” and then using my heat press to see what it did on paper. if the laser doesn’t do well on the paper, i can create stamps or stencils on the GF to apply the decolorant and then just the heat press or iron.
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that’s cool!
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if anyone is curious, Eska finally got back to me and had someone send me MSDS, a statement of composition, and a brochure. attaching them here.
US-ESKA-BOARD-product-leaflet.pdf (203.5 KB)
MSDS Eskaboard.pdf (196.2 KB)
Statement Composition Eska Product.pdf (69.3 KB)
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Acording to the SDS it seems safe to laser:
“On thermal decomposition (pyrolysis T> 250°C) releases mainly
Carbon Oxides (CO, CO2) and H2O.”
No dangerous vynil compounds. 
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