You may be confusing OSB (oriented strand board) which is a product like plywood but made of pieces of wood product held together with lots of resin glues. Typically used in construction for subfloors and building sheathing. Sometimes called chipboard.
The chipboard here is a cardboard product that is used for the backing of pads of paper or as the cardboard stiffener in hardbound books.
It’s almost like pressed paperboard and pretty much glueless so is pretty easy to laser. It’s offered in a variety of thicknesses and colors (although a grayish-brown is predominant).
After a bit more dusting out of the the brain cobwebs I think the material that I was thinking of was called Hardboard and is a lot like MDF (if not the same). I thought it would be perfect to have lasered, but the lab that I took it to would not even attempt it.
I assume it’s going to be too gluey for the Glowforge too, right?
When I hear “chipboard” I think Blandex or OSB(oriented strand board). I’ve no idea how it would cut with a laser but can’t really think of a reason I’d want to either.
I don’t know, maybe I’ve been lucky, but we’ve got a ton (probably literally) of IKEA furniture in our house, and the vast majority of it has been around for a decade or more, and survived an international move. I’m sure some of it might be closer to 20 years old and survived two international moves!
Art supply stores, Dick Blick, EBay, Amazon…the only place you don’t want to go is to your local Hobby Stores cause they charge a freaking fortune for it.
Try searching “chipboard sheets” on Ebay. 50 for $15. Comes in white coated (my fav for boxes) and natural cardboard color.
