I'm making some stair treads for my spiral staircase from oak. You know when you do concrete projects and you let the kids add handprints? I wonder if I could do this with a laser engraver.
Here's what I'm thinking:
1. Have the kids use black finger paint and make nice bold hand prints.
2. scan to JPG at a high contrast. I'm not looking for gray scale.
3. Using a 100W engraver in scan mode. Engrave into the oak really deep. Say, 1/8".
4. Fill with black dyed epoxy and sand smooth.
Suggestions? This should work, right?
I have access to two 100W laser engravers at NoVa Labs.
I thought about doing some sort of inlay but I'm thinking that this would be way easier. I have gobs of oak for experimentation.