Solid Formica Gingerbreads: Custom Christmas Ornaments

Want custom Christmas ornaments? Today CNCROi.com is going to make custom solid Formica Gingerbreads using this amazingly strong material.

Although CNCROi.com can make custom Christmas ornaments out of pretty much any material, what makes Formica special is the incredible durability it offers and endless texture and color combinations, including metal, that we can transform into just about any shape or size for any application.

This isn’t the first time we’ve made custom Christmas ornaments using Formica, here’s some laser cut Formica snowflakes so you can compare the process of making these using both our industrial CNC laser and CNC router.

So regardless of your application, CNCROi.com can make it using a variety of capital equipment in any volume you require for the holidays or for ultra-unique handouts.

The advantage of laser cutting custom Christmas ornaments out of Formica is that we can achieve sharp inner corners while with the CNC router, speed wins especially for rounded or larger items.

When it comes to design options for your custom Christmas ornaments, whatever you want, CNCROi.com can make.

Where our industrial CNC laser literally vaporizes the Formica into shape, the CNC router actually carves it out of a sheet of material, hence all the paper looking saw dust you see over the surface of these custom Christmas ornaments in the shape of gingerbreads.

The process, unlike waterjet cutting, is completely dry either way but the reason CNCROi.com doesn’t use the waterjet to do this project is because it would delaminate the glued together custom Formica gingerbread Christmas ornaments as we have two different types glued back to back.

Whether you want custom Christmas ornaments for your tree out of paper, acrylic (plastic) or MDF, CNCROi.com has the equipment and expertise to make them just for you in any volume you want.

As you can see by all the smiley faces, these custom Christmas ornaments are very happy to be made by our CNC router, it’s easily one of the happiest projects we’ve produced at CNCROi.com and the wood grain texture on the Formica really helps to accentuate the gingerbreads as like snowflakes, each is unique.

CNCROi.com can also make custom Christmas ornaments using live edge material, with the same attention to detail and quality.

Of course, as CNCROi.com is using it’s CNC router to cut out these custom Christmas ornaments, we are cutting into our spoilboard so after each production run, we need to resurface the board to make sure everything is nice and flat for the next run.

This requires us to use our resurfacing bit to quickly erase all the happy gingerbreads off our MDF board and associated dust that has built-up during the custom production process using Formica.

CNCROi.com can make custom Christmas ornaments in any shape, size or material, such as these sand blasted clean word ornaments made out of solid wood.

The reason we are cutting into the board is to make sure that the edge quality is good on these Formica gingerbread custom Christmas ornaments, it’s very minor but does make a difference during production.

As you can see, the gingerbreads are quickly removed from the surface of the MDF, CNCROi.com generally does two passes to accomplish this, the first to remove the upper surface of dust and characters in this case and then another to clean-up the tooling path.

Then it’s right back to making more custom Christmas ornaments in the shape of gingerbreads using double-sided Formica.

The diversity of Formica is unparalleled, unlike paint, it doesn’t peel for crack off, it’s incredibly easy to keep clean with a ultra-durable surface finish and can be made into any shape you want CNCROi.com to produce for you.

CNCROi.com produced a lot of custom gingerbreads in this overall production run, they are incredibly strong, durable and will last decades for generations to enjoy well into the future.

By comparison, a different machine we could have used to make these custom Christmas ornaments out of Formica is our CNC laser, it requires a bit more set-up and post work but it produces sharp corners and highly details parts that just can’t be achieved using a CNC router.

Regardless of the equipment CNCROi.com uses to make custom Formica shapes, the results always look spectacular and we aren’t damaging the overall quality of the Formica using either a spinning bit or photons to achieve our production goals.

If you need custom Christmas ornaments, Formica is a wonderful material to consider using and having CNCROi.com use its experience cutting this material to make them for you is a win/win.