Here is a small box I made featuring wrap around engraved art. The coloring is soot from the burning process which was rubbed into the wood using a toothbrush. I sealed it with oil based polyurethane finish.
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This looks wonderful. I’m sure whoever gets (or sees) this box will love it!
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Meranti plywood?
Excellent result.
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Very interesting use of the effects of the engraving soot as a part of the design instead of cleaning it up.
Nice piece!
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Luan. Very sooty when engraving.
Thanks. This comes from that “if you can’t beat em, join em” place.
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I have found the underneath bits of Luan pretty ugly when I attempted to engrave it but a scored design cleaned up well.
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FYI, lauan is meranti plywood, so yup!
I actually don’t use it much because it chars so badly. That being said, like many mahogany variants it engraves nice and dark.
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Here I am clicking through the new the posts… “Oh that is nice.” “No comment.”
Then I come to this one… “Oh! Wow!” (my exact words) and then I lean forward to get closer to the monitor to see the detail!
Excellent work! I have always wanted to do a box that such great detail.
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I learned something new today. Thanks!
Thanks! It was just one of those "happy accidents ".
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Neat design. Fun to see the accent of the char.
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Wow
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Nice way to “lean in” to what others might call a downside. As an engineer, our slogan is: If you can’t fix it, feature it!
Seriously, I learned at least three things from your post. Thanks for posting it.
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Fellow Engineer. I call them opportunities. Thanks for your kind comments.
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