Mahogany Plywood

[evansd2]

We were just talking about meranti plywood, which is sometimes called “philippine mahogany”.

Its buried a bit in this thread:

1/8 Birch Plywood (not proof grade)

So I am experimenting with my new Glowforge. I don’t want to use the more expensive wood (yet) until I have this figured out. So I ran to the hardware store and picked up some regular (not Baltic) birch plywood to play with (.20"). I tried a rather large cut (18x10) at 182/full, 1 pass. It cut most of it right through but it was slightly shallow in some areas. I am thinking it’s probably inconsistent core. I tried again at 2 pass and it didn’t seem to make much difference. Shouldn’t the …

As for proper African mahogany ply, I haven’t come across that.