In search of Engraving Okoume plywood settings for GF Pro

[carriejeanjenkins]

Hello All,

I have a GF Pro for the last month-I’d like to do some engraving on a piece of Okoume plywood 1/4 inch (SVG design). I’m in search of the best settings for this type of wood for engraving -dark. I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks

[rbtdanforth]

The best settings are what you find by experimenting starting with PG settings for similar wood. If you engrave tightly packed one inch by a quarter inch rectangles and keep notes of what you did with each, you can get a lot of tests with very little sacrifice.

[deirdrebeth]

It looks Janka wise that it’s similar to padauk - and there are definitely settings on here for that - I’d start with those and use one of the engrave tests to get it perfect.

(Two examples, you can definitely search for more!)

Settings: Padauk

I recently acquired some 1/8" Padauk from Inventables: After some experimentation, I’ve found the Proofgrade settings for Medium Basswood Hardwood yields the best overall results. I did try other settings, including lower power, higher speed, multiple passes, etc., and didn’t observe a significant advantage over the Proofgrade settings. The manual equivalent to Proofgrade Medium Basswood Hardwood is: speed=200, power=Full, passes=1 Despite how dry the wood feels, the Padauk “juices out’ qu…

Small and fast engraving test template

Engraving test! I know there are many of these out there already but I wanted something faster than the full blown tests. After all there is not much difference below 50% power. This test takes about 12 minutes and just checks between full and 75 percent engraving and is much smaller as not to waste to much wood. [Engraving%20Test] Engraving Test.zip (546.2 KB)