Also, this is going to look best on solid hardwood, not plywoods.
Well, ok caveats. This is the thing with engraving, it defies simple blanket statements.
The trick with plywood is that if you engrave all the way through one of the layers, the color of the layer underneath may be radically different. Plywood engraves can look great if you don’t go too deep.
See this one from a million years ago on baltic birch plywood: