Photo of laser test piece, showing engraves and cuts on the laser.

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   Matt Gray (mattgrayyes@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 11:19:33 JST Matt Gray

   Looking for advice if anyone’s specifically had experience laser cutting all the way through 5mm side-pressed bamboo with a CO2 laser without it setting on fire etc. please

   I’m all good engraving it.

   It’ll cut all the way through if it’s going slowly enough to set on fire but even with many passes if it’s going fast enough to not set on fire I can’t get it to cut all the way through. (8x at 200mm/60% gets most of the way in some areas)

   I’m using a 60W HPC LS3060

   https://kitronik.co.uk/collections/bamboo-sheets/products/3296-5mm-bamboo-side-pressed-caramel-600mm-x-400mm-sheet