Yeah, if you’ve ever tried to polish up wood (without any sort of coating), you know it’s almost impossible to make it completely smooth, it always has a certain texture to the touch. And here, where you have to pretty much cut it once and can’t polish it at all, it’s probably going to retain a lot of that texture in the groove. So I guess it is possible that it might “”“play”“”, but it would probably be mostly noise with some music coming through at times.
Might work a little better (for a little while) since it’s ‘cut’ via a laser, not friction or gouging - the surface would be relatively smooth in comparison since it’s burning the material.
If I were going to do something like this, I would probably make the wood as flat as possible and then put a high-quality coat of epoxy or some other harder material on top of it and carve the music into that material instead of the wood.
I’m not convinced. The edges of laser-cut plywood are not smooth, they still have a rough grainy texture to them, and they’re also covered in soot which is probably not conducive to music playback.
I’m really interested in hearing what this sounds like, but I don’t expect much.
Yeah, if you’ve ever tried to polish up wood (without any sort of coating), you know it’s almost impossible to make it completely smooth, it always has a certain texture to the touch. And here, where you have to pretty much cut it once and can’t polish it at all, it’s probably going to retain a lot of that texture in the groove. So I guess it is possible that it might “”“play”“”, but it would probably be mostly noise with some music coming through at times.
Might work a little better (for a little while) since it’s ‘cut’ via a laser, not friction or gouging - the surface would be relatively smooth in comparison since it’s burning the material.
If I were going to do something like this, I would probably make the wood as flat as possible and then put a high-quality coat of epoxy or some other harder material on top of it and carve the music into that material instead of the wood.
I’m not convinced. The edges of laser-cut plywood are not smooth, they still have a rough grainy texture to them, and they’re also covered in soot which is probably not conducive to music playback.
I’m really interested in hearing what this sounds like, but I don’t expect much.