New dining table! What to laser?

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Placemats and trivets: cork or felt

Cork engraves pitch black with very low power. I’m a fan of the IKEA Avskild.

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If you do some post processing you can make it look really different:

Dice tray build notes

So the dice tray: Dice tray time Overall, the build went pretty well. Materials: 1/8" Purple heart 1/8" Baltic birch ply AVSKILD Cork placemats from IKEA [http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40281654/] I started by thinking I wanted the finger joints not to look as “lasery” so I made the fingers about .5mm too long. I then sanded them flush with the box. The end result is a fairly purple box joint, and I’m happy with that. The rolling surface process: Engrave at 1000/4/1x (pro)…