Rear browning around edges of 1/4" maple through cutting

[MikeyH (Mike Hembrey)]

@bhdavis

’ll 3D print some this afternoon

If you hit one with the laser, it is toast (literally!).

Here is an alternative that looked promising…

My new laser workholding for cutting sheets of wood

I really wanted to slow down the accumulation of the byproducts of cutting wood on my honeycomb bed. I figured I’d need to raise the work a little and found some spikes (used to put spike studs on clothes). My first attempt was to mount them onto magnets, but the magnets wouldn’t align the way I wanted them all the time. Instead, I found 1/4” x 3/4” pop rivets and modified them. These fit into the openings in the honeycomb bed with the stud raising the work 13mm above the bed. This has shown to …