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I love this photo… (my parents)


This is a better picture. You can see the detail is actually there… top picture looks darker than it is

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Very cool! What settings did you use? is that PG birch ply?

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That was basswood from menards.

Heres the final picture on a $6 piece of live edge basswood from Target. 11" wide by 8" tall.

And put some poly on it to lock it in.

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Very nice photo … And nice family keepsake!

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I still can’t believe it only took an hour and 19 minutes. I used to use a 2.8w diode laser on my cnc machine and it would have taken 3 to 4 hours to do something this big

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Awesome job! I need to check out Menards for material.

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Hobby Lobby and sometimes Michael’s have these same live edge planks. (No Menards here :slightly_smiling_face:)

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Hmm, the closest Menards is 500 miles away. And I thought the hobby lobby in Braintree was far!

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So on top of the general coolness, I love that the knot looks like a ripple in the water!

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I got the final large piece of basswood from target

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Targets we have!

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It was in the craft section near the school/office supply section

you can also find some interesting cheese boards/cutting boards in the kitchen section of target. if you shop there regularly, keep an eye on the clearance end caps. i haven’t etched them yet, but i picked up a couple of 20" long paddle style cutting boards for $10ish each on clearance.

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Heres a link that I was directed to from target .com

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