{"id":2082,"date":"2025-03-25T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2025-03-28T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:48:35","slug":"cutting-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/25\/cutting-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie wanted a Highland Cow engraved into this cutting board, so I found an image on the internet and got to work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a minute since I fired up the ole laser engraver, it sets quietly out in the garage waiting for it&#8217;s next meal!  Ha ha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did a couple practice runs and some brown paper sheets I have for testing. (Did you know a laser will not burn white because it is just too light and just absorbs the beam)  It is almost the same size a s a sheet of paper, some a couple practice runs and I was ready to go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is always the task, getting it lined up, square and centered perfect. Seems you are never engraving something perfectly flat, square and easy to align.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nailed it, got &#8216;er going and ran it about 6 laps around the image.  No cutting it yet, busted the laser to 80% and dropped the speed down to 50 &#8211; now we are burning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had to open the garage door to let the smoke out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cleaned it all off and oiled it up, turned out pretty good!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie wanted a Highland Cow engraved into this cutting board, so I found an image on the internet and got to work! It has been a minute since I fired up the ole laser engraver, it sets quietly out in the garage waiting for it&#8217;s next meal! Ha ha! I did a couple practice runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}