Motivational Wall Plaque: Engraving and Cutting Pine

Making a custom motivational wall plaque using CNC laser engraved and cut Pine is a great way to commemorate an event or thanks somebody who has helped you along the way.

Although CNCROi.com could have made this plaque in any size, shape or material, the client decided they wanted Pine with a super dark permanent engraving.

CNCROi.com pushes through a lot of Pine, it’s a wonderful material to work with as it sands really smooth and quick, is very easy on the machinery including bits and produces an amazing contrast using our Austrian wide-format industrial laser.

Another bonus about having a custom motivational wall plaque made out of Pine is that it weighs very little, so hanging it on a wall is very easy without the need for drywall supports.

Unlike making a wall plaque out of metal, which is heavy and pretty much indestructible inside or outdoors in all-weather conditions.

When it comes to making custom motivational wall plaque, generally it involves a saying or a quote from either the author or from an author that the customer enjoys with a picture to help re-enforce personality and purpose.

This is an important step because we want our customers to have something CUSTOM, meaning we encourage them to be as creative and open to new ideas as possible as it makes CNCROi.com have even more fun making the end result.

For custom motivational wall plaques corporate gifting wise, we do a lot of lamacoids to match corporate colors or sentiment while still remaining within their strict budget numbers.

For instance, making the above custom plaque out of a lamacoid that looks like metal saves a tremendous amount of time and money over using real metal without the limitations or weight associated with using metal.

A custom motivational wall plaque made by CNCROi.com as a result can be as creative as you want it to be, any shape, size or material combination you could ever want, that follows-through text and images too.

For instance, with this Pine custom motivational wall plaque made by CNCROi.com, they wanted extra dark contrast so that means we go over the engraving a second time to create lots of extra charcoal which will last a very long time over anything we could add to create the effect such as paint.

After engraving the custom motivational wall plaque TWICE, it’s time to cut it out.

Due to the absolute precision of our Austrian CNC industrial laser, we can pass over the same place thousands of time and actually hit the same places a thousand times.

We’ve made amazing wall plaques for a host of special events, including weddings.

After the custom motivational wall plaque is finished, its time to liberate it from the scrap material which CNCROi.com actually keeps for other purposes in the shop before it joins it’s friends in the fire pit.

How big and heavy can we go? CNCROi.com can make huge thick live edge wall plaques just as easily as small Pine ones.

After removing the custom motivational wall plaque out of Pine, it’s time to head over to the sanding station to clean-up the surface, we want this plaque to look SHARP, not a burned to a crisp as you see in the photo below.

Of course, CNCROi.com has made projects where the customer actually wanted things to look like the image below, as if it was custom branded, so the option is always there when it comes to custom motivational wall plaques.

Although this wall plaque is rectangular, here’s another we made in the shape of an actual state, the state of Montana!

Sanding the surface using three different grits of sand paper produces a nice smooth finish, varnish is an option but most of our customers just love having it totally natural especially if it’s for use indoors.

The results of the custom motivational wall plaque after laser engraving, cutting then sanding look amazing!

Some customers ask us to make their custom wall plaques out of Corian, here’s a great video showing how a paint filled Corian looks like.

There was a knot in this wood but I placed it over the shield to give it a bit more texture and visual interest, I’m very proud of how this custom motivational wall plaque came out and I’m sure the customer will love it just as much as I do!

Looking for a custom motivational wall plaque any shape, size or material?

Contact CNCROi.com right now!