Approach your local chamber of commerce and propose wooden tokens you create using Lightburn and your laser CNC to generate business for their local chamber of commerce members.
The higher value tokens can be created using metal via a fiber laser or UV laser.
Here is some information on the wooden nickels from the past
https://medium.com/the-billfold/the-history-of-the-wooden-nickel-8059b2fa2c59
Now go make some money using your Lightburn software and payoff your laser.
Cheers 
Sas
I made my own wooden nickels a year ago. Used them mostly for keychains and bag tags.
Wooden_Nickel_Front_Back.lbrn2 (1.0 MB)
Awesome. Do you have any photos of your finished end product. What wood did you use Baltic Birch 3 mm or something fancy like a walnut or cherry veneer ply. Cheers Sas
Any time I have circular cutouts for scrap, I burn TUIT on them before the cut. Great for a “FREE, Take One!” bucket at craft fairs.
I use 1/8" maple from Ocooch Hardwoods
Not familiar withbthis term. Thanx for sharing
Cheets
Sas
When someone tells you they will do it when they get around to it, hand them one of these.
Still curious what the letters in TUIT represent 
Not letters, say it. You will do it when you get a round tuit!
The most complex questions always have the simplest answers 
Interesting technique to score the background instead of engraving. I am working on a scale model and I want to represent industrial metalwork - i.e. large steel members that are bolted together - I have been looking at engraving to leave the bolt head detail sticking out (proud) of the surface but this takes time and I do not always like the engraved finish when looking at it for a model.
Maybe the scoring will give a better effect and quicker - I will have to try it.
Gotta love that old railroad look:
3D printing may be better than lasering when you want rivets, though:
The striations didn’t matter to me, but an epoxy dip would make them look more like Olde Ironwork.
You are right but the main structure of the model is wood (well MDF). However, I was already looking for the “decoration” to be added pieces rather than decoration of the actual working structure so maybe I can find a successful way to integrate printed parts and laser cut ones.
