Settings for Engraving on Bamboo

[Jules]

Bamboo burns really dark:

Chip Clips

Picked up a bag of bamboo clothespins at the hobby store cause they looked like they would fit in the 'Forge, and spent a day putting together some designs for them yesterday… I think they’ll work for bag clips. (Chips, cookies, M&Ms…) [image] So for the designs…we’ve got Engineer clips (one of those triangular rulers…sorry - scale, chuckle!), one for Musicians, and one for the Drama/Cinema team. That should cover most of the family avocations. [image] Very easy to do these with a single …

Power: 25
Speed: 225
LPI: 270
Focal Point: Surface

[cynd11]

Thank you!

[darkdesign]

I found 225/25/1/ to be a bit on the deep and dark side. I got some great results using

1000/100/1/270lpi/x2defocus to have a slightly lighter colour still deep
1000/80/1/270lpi/x2defocus deep to medium deep and still great contrast
500/35/1/270/x2defocus for a light to medium engrave.

[ben_marton]

I know this post is a year old, but how does one x2defocus?

[jbmanning5]

Math.

If the material is .100”, you would enter .200” into the focal height field under manual settings.