new material for y'all to try out

[lawrence]

Hope everyone is well and thought I'd share a new material I've found to be fun to carve. Though I used a different machine, I immediately thought of you guys when I discovered it, can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work well on the Carvewright and hope this helps someone here.

I had some scraps of coretec plus vinyl plank left from my recent kitchen remodel and thought "what the heck" I should throw it into the CNC and see what happens...

It turns out, very nice completely waterproof coasters happens.... The flooring is a 5/16 thick sandwich of cork, white vinyl, and top layer vinyl.

I made a few up for the local place that sold me the vinyl (and our new granite) and lo and behold, I now have access to their scrap bins

I tried some color filling too with paint and they came out pretty nice too, but I really like the simplicity of just "carve and walk away". 1/8 carving depth created a nice "two tone color when the v bit carved through the top layer into the second one.

Hope someone finds this interesting or useful- I plan to do some testing for other uses for this material... it cuts and carves too beautifully to ignore and at $5 a foot isn't outrageously expensive.

Again, hope everyone is well and wishing you all happy carving
Lawrence