That hole in the bottom is where the dowel goes which allows it to stand upright.
The wood appears to be 1/3" crapboard (that’s a thing, right?). And because I tested the engrave on scrap a few times unmasked… I completely forgot to mask the real piece. What a tool I am. Also I think I could have gone a shade lighter, but everybody’s happy with it as-is, so I guess I’m not re-doing it.
Edit: Here’s the original photo in case you’re interested:
OK this is great, and is so amazing and personal, that everytime he coaches he will get a new gift. First off, you had it running just perfectly given the total lack of spew, so don’t sweat the masking (I have never gotten the surrounding wood that clean, unless you sanded after). As for lighter? Really, I would say if anything darker, but to each their own, but I think it’s pretty perfect as is.
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total lack of spew, so don’t sweat the masking
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Yeah, there’s no “spew,” but there’s smoke damage that’s more noticeable in person than in the photo. It’s not bad or anything, I just know full well that had I masked it, there’d be 0 smoke stain.[quote=“henryhbk, post:9, topic:8755”]
As for lighter? Really, I would say if anything darker
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Well, that was an interesting thing about this crapboard wood. It’s lighter, but kind of etches like it’s charring even though it’s not. It’s just kinda weird. And that was my first experience with it and it didn’t even slightly resemble any of my testing on my 1x scrap wood.
So I got word… They all loved it. Apparently Tony looked at people like they had two heads when they suggested “Now you’ll have this whenever you’re coaching.” His response to that was “Coaching? No no. Then people will want to touch it or something. Or something could spill on it. No. I’m going to figure out where to hang this up in our house.”
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