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Christmas take 2

A project log for MultiBot CNC v2

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david-tuckerDavid Tucker 01/02/2024 at 22:000 Comments

So this year for Christmas my wife wanted to make cutting boards for family.  We spent some time using Canva to generate the logo's.  Then a bit of effort to export things to a format that light burn can handle.  And finally were ready to burn.

I used blue painters tape to mask out the wood, this prevents the smoke from marring the wood.  And after I finished burning I used a wet q-tip to remove the loose ash from the cut lines.

They turned out really great!  I'm not sure they are useful as an actual cutting board. For starters you would probably destroy the pattern, and there probably not food safe.  There is a lot of confusion over the food safety.  Some say never, the pores in the cut are too big.  Others say just oil it and your golden, and finally there is the fill in the cut with epoxy crowd.  Personally I think these are fine to use as is for a cheese board, or as decoration, but you probably should not let raw meat touch them.

Top it off with a little note on the back and there good to go.  These took about 2 hours each to design, and an hour or two to cut.  Not nearly fast enough for commercial work, but plenty fast enough for gifts.

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