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Solid wood (hardwood and softwood)

also: cherry, walnut, basswood

Hardwood and softwood are the easy case on blue diode and CO2 machines. All three makers read agree on that, and all three say a fiber source is the wrong tool for wood.

Board

YES x2 two or more makers say yesNO x2 two or more say noMAKERS SPLIT makers contradict each other1 SOURCE one maker page only, not confirmedNO STATEMENT nothing publishedIF = yes only under a stated condition
Laser typeEngrave or markCut
Diode (blue, about 450 to 455 nm)YES x3YES x2
CO2 (10,600 nm)YES x3YES x2
Fiber (1064 nm)NO x3NO x2

Run solid wood through the matcher to add a cut thickness.

What each maker says

Diode, engrave or mark YES x3

Diode, cut YES x2

CO2, engrave or mark YES x3

CO2, cut YES x2

Fiber, engrave or mark NO x3

Fiber, cut NO x2

Published one-pass cut depth

Only figures a maker prints for this material. Thicker stock may need more passes; no page read gives a multi-pass figure.

MachineTypeMax one passSources
Creality Falcon2 Pro 40WDiode20 mmCreality Falcon, Jaspertronics (retailer)
xTool S1 40WDiode18 mmxTool, Stemfinity (retailer)
xTool P2SCO218 mmxTool
xTool S1 20WDiode10 mmxTool
Creality Falcon2 Pro 22WDiode10 mmCreality Falcon
xTool S1 10WDiode6 mmxTool

Fumes

Every page read treats lasering as a fume source. Match your machine's exhaust figure to an extractor on the fume and room lookup.