A characteristic of burning protein; hair, skin fingernail or rhino horn. I’m surprised a taste for that can be acquired…
The kids just took a field trip to “The Bone Room” and a fellow teacher came back with a chunk of camel bone he intends to try out in our shop laser cutter. I’ll report back.
Sorry to necro this thread, but I wanted to check back and see if you’ve tried this yet?
Edited to add: I am not trying to add to your To-Do list! I hope you’re getting some sleep these days, my friend
I’ll do it tomorrow. I finally got my belt sander here to smooth out some cow shank.
Cow shank - the best of the shanks
I did a test engrave (5% power, 335 i/m, 675 lpi), score (5%, 60 i/m and cut (80%, 15 i/m) on a piece of bone that was over 1/4" thick in most places.
The score and engrave of bone is really neat. Lots of potential there. The cut went maybe a millimeter deep.
This was some dense cow shank. It would cut through some very thin bone at higher power and slower speed or with multiple cuts.
So how I would finish this domino would be to use a bandsaw to finish the cut and then a belt or strip sander to sand down to size.
Was there a residue or odor during or after the lasering?
Didn’t even notice it when I opened the lid. Exhaust did a pretty good job on this. Since the dots were fairly small there wasn’t a whole lot of burning. It was worse cutting the bone with a saw!
Thank you so much for taking the time out to experiment with this and report back!
This is so cool! Reminds me of the ancient Roman dice and gaming pieces that have been found.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing this.
Awesome! I wonder how it would do with a tagua nut?
Definitely need to think about that for netsuke. (great…more ideas…sigh!)
Oh ho ho this looks awesome! Maybe I should’ve bought some of those bone blanks!
Outstanding news. I’ve been hoping to see how it looks and now I will be adding bone blanks to my list. The contrast is really nice,
Bone drying DIY going to get a lot of hits from this thread
How long before we get folks asking how to field dress roadkill so they can get the raw materials?
Considering I purchased a very nice leather purse at a used clothing store this weekend for $3, just to get the leather. I thought my wife was going to kill me when she found me cutting it up
I guess roadkill is just the next step
Genius! Haven’t thought about a used clothing store as source of leather.
I picked up a used baby crib on Craigslist once. My parents were giving me crap that it wouldn’t be safe. Before I called the company to make sure it would be, I was thinking to myself, “Wow, this would be a great way to get really cheap cherry wood and other wood of the like!”
Just in case: