Wooden fruit bowl | Trotec Laser DIY sample

This tutorial shows you how to produce a modern solid wood fruit bowl with your Trotec laser cutting machine. Once cut the parts can be assembled without glue. For more information about laser cutting and engraving wood, visit our application page.

Preparation

Required Material

1 sheet of solid wood walnut 5 mm

Used machine

Speedy 360, 80 Watts with 2.0" lens
Aluminum cutting grid table

The fruit bowl can of course also be produced with all other machines of the Speedy laser engravers or SP laser cutters.

Important

Cover the working area completely with paper. By doing this even slightly bent sheets get flat.

Fruit_bowl_files.zip

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Step by step

Step 1

Import design

Import the design template and adapt it to your requirements if needed. Then click on"Create Job" to move the design to the "Prepare Screen"

Info: Wood is a natural product. Its characteristics may vary. Therefore, we recommend to test the parameters before you actually produce the work piece.

Step 2

Laser process

Place the job now to the desired position and adapt the settings. The laser parameters may vary depending on the type of laser machine and available laser power. Send the job to the "Queue" for Laser processing.

Effect	Cut Quality1
Process	Cut
Layers	Red
Power (%)	95
Speed (%)	0,6
Hz	1000
Source	CO2
Air Assist	On
z-offset	-
Passes	1
Power Correction	10
Path planning	Standard

The different laser cut parts for the fruit bowl.

Step 3

Post-processing

Clean the parts while they are still in the machine and the vacuum is on. By doing this you can efficiently wipe over the complete surface. Sort the different parts and put them together.

Tip: Mark the front of the single pieces with adhesive tape so that you can assemble the pieces correctly.

Inspirations

You can cut the parts of the bowl from different types of wood and mix them during assembly.
A fruit bowl can be personalised with a laser engraving. This is ideal as it allows you to create a standard bowl then add personalisation later in line with customer orders.
Additional wood applications can be found here.