Has anyone tried laser-cutting something that’s been decoupaged (image glued to wood)?
I was thinking it would be cool to make a wood puzzle from a full-color photo, but wasn’t sure if that would work or if the photo part would get too burned during cutting.
You’d probably be better off cutting the wood first, then before moving it from the cutting table place some contact adhesive on one side to hold the pieces in position. Then glue your image to the other side (as a whole piece) & you could then later cut the rest of the image through the puzzle lines with a scalpel or similar tool.
I have that in mind as a to do also. For sure it will burn but you could do multiple passes at low power.
Did it:
This illustrates how I camera position the laserhead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrNJ29R2mW0