Scoring 3/4" Stock

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I have done some engraving on pine. You can remove the crumb tray, and it turns out that a perfectly suitable spacer for 3/4" pine is 3/4" pine.

Some notes and calculations in this post:

Engraving experiments in pine

I had some 10x12" 3/4" pine boards (standard martial arts breaking boards) lying around and decided to try engraving them with different engraving settings. I thought I’d share some preliminary results. I’m also going to go over some things I had to learn which most of you are already familiar with. First, I had to track down instructions on how to engrave without the crumb tray because 0.75" is greater than the 0.44" maximum focus height. Measuring the black crumb tray bed height, I got 1.37",…