Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to burn flat images in wood?

You could try it the old fashioned way by setting up for a drag knife, and
substituting a small, pencil type, soldering iron, with a slanted wedge tip,
for the drag knife.

Bill

On Tue Aug 26 23:34:06 2003 clone_enolc wrote:

>Has anyone ever added a wood burning type tool to a cnc router? I mean
>like a torch or something. I know the best way to burn a flat image
>into wood would be to use a CO2 laser, but that is very expensive.
>There must be an alternative to expensive lasers.
>I see allot of software for making images in wood like ImageCarve,
>DeskArt, or ArtCam. But those are pretty much 3D relief. I was
>thinking more of just a flat burned image like a CO2 laser can do.
>Any ideas?


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