I went to Wally World today looking for a bamboo cutting board today to make that dice baseball game Will showed earlier in the week. Found this one.
It was supposed to be $13.44, but it rang up as $3.50 or so. Going to go back tomorrow to see if I can replicate.
The corner pieces do come off, but expose some holes that would have to be cut off if you don’t want the corners in your design. In my case it will be OK.
Not an error, and not quite the same savings, but c.f.,
I was able to break one of those cheap “plywood” WM bamboo cutting boards by just squeezing it in the package between three fingers. The glue joints are not done very well. Might be better if they were thicker, but I didn’t find any thick ones there.
IKEA is a great resource for CNC and laser enthusiasts. I stock up on cutting boards to keep on hand to customize as last-minute gifts.
That is a good price, but strangely it is not deliverable to me outside Savannah, so a 2 hour drive to Jacksonville would be required. Odd.
This one was .61” thick. It seemed sturdy enough. At the price I paid I figured it was cheaper to cut it in the bamboo rather than testing in a piece of MDF.
It turned out OK, certainly good enough to entertain my 8 year old today. This was my finest experience with bamboo. I was surprised that most of the cuts required some cleaning with an xacto knife and air hose to remove the fibrous waste in spite of my dust collector. That may have been due to bit choice though. The dice pocket and the holes were done with #102 and all the rest was with a single flute 30 degree Amana bit. It was the v carvings that really needed cleaning so maybe the grooves just were not wide enough.
I knew that the stitching on the baseball was likely to be a problem. Maybe I will try again after I get some more stock.
Try a repeat, full-depth V-carving to clean up the V carving — that has been reported as working well.
I assume by “full depth” you mean the same depth as the first cut. Yeah, maybe that would have ejected the material better. I thought about that but didn’t in this case because I was running out of time. I don’t know whether I would want to try remounting this one for the additional vcarve pass or just make another full try on a new board. I can flip this one but there is a trough on the other side that would probably require me to scale the geometry. Fixing the size of every hole is a pain. I did not use the array function since the bulk of this design (minus baseball and the players) was a supplied SVG.
The baseball is a contour with no offset as you suggested for open vectors. I think that stitching and the bamboo just don’t get along.
The text at the very top and bottom of the board is a simple vcarve. Everything else with the exception of the pocket and the peg holes was an advanced vcarve with that Amana bit (45771-K) which is neither an up or down cut as far as I can tell.
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