Wooden Fundraising Ornaments
Wooden fundraising ornaments made by CNCROi.com are possible in an endless variety of design parameters to suit just about any budget or goals your organization may have.
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Of course, if wooden fundraising ornaments aren’t your thing, you prefer them out of stainless steel, plastic or any other material, that’s no problem either.
For these custom laser cut wooden fundraising ornaments, the material of choice was 1/8″ MDF as it’s easily painted and a very cost-effective material for this specific application with the budgets and timelines provided by the customer.
As these wooden fundraising ornaments will be shipped all over, sizing and weight was also a major consideration so the design that won the race was the one we produced, lightweight, easily customized by the customer with paint and within all other parameters provided.
As you can see in these photos and the video on this CNCROi.com blog post, all the inside parts of the wooden fundraising ornaments were cut out first followed by the outside outline to liberate it from the sheet of MDF.
MDF jobs at CNCROi.com can be huge or small, we handle them all!
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The bright light you see is the instant vaporization of the MDF, smoke is produced but its’ minimal with this material at this thickness for these wooden fundraising ornaments.
The design could have been made using our CNC router as well but for this wooden fundraising ornaments, the laser was producing free contrasting burned edges that wouldn’t be possible using the CNC router and CNCROi.com can produce a sharper results as the beam is far narrower than a bit.
The design itself is relatively simple, as these wooden fundraising ornaments could be essentially packed immediately after they were cut out because there were no additional sanding or finishing requirements required after production.
Surprisingly, we also do a lot of custom cabinetry jobs where the MDF is cut by us and then finished by our customers.
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The entire project, as with many others that CNCROi.com handles when it comes to making fundraising widgets, was a fun one to do and it raised a lot of money for the organization so it was very much a win all around.
CNCROi.com has been cutting MDF projects for years, this material and thickness is probably the most used material in our shop when it comes to man made woods.
When it comes to laser engraving, although you see none of it in this specific project, it’s always performed first to make sure that everything is kept as a solid piece as long as possible, followed by the inside parts which you do see in this production cycle of wooden fundraising ornaments followed by the outside outline of the finished piece.
I’ve personally been working with MDF for over two decades, I did a lot of model making before I ever began CNCROi.com.
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Whether CNCROi.com is laser engraving or laser cutting MDF, the power is essentially the same, what’s different is the speed of the laser head itself, meaning we could technically laser engrave through the wooden fundraising ornaments and “engrave” using our cutting paths but that is neither efficient nor cost effective production methods.
When it comes to making custom fundraising items or widgets to raise funds for your organization, it’s important that you really have your budget numbers and volumes sorted out as early as possible, the nice thing about these types of projects is that generally they happen over a few weeks so it’s great to see the progression of sales right before the “cut off” date, which gives us time to quickly produce these as the numbers rise for time efficient shipping thereafter.
Laser cutting out these wooden fundraising ornaments went without a hitch, it’s a relatively straight forward process, loading in the sheet of MDF, pressing a button on the laser then removing all the resultant products before loading-up another sheet into the machine.
If you are wondering what laser engraving looks like on MDF, here’s an extreme example of what’s possible.
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Of course, prototyping and testing was performed well before this production run was performed at CNCROi.com, the last thing you want is to make hundreds of widgets and find-out that it doesn’t work or the products are defective in one way or another.
Looking at the end results of these wooden fundraising ornaments, you can see that although each one is identical, they are still each a little different in their smoke pattern.
Each and every one of these wooden fundraising ornaments was made the same way, first the laser cut out the insides across the entire sheet followed by the outside, this means nothing moved until the very end of this production run at CNCROi.com.
Even the scraps left-over from this project look neat, but CNCROi.com will be feeding them to the fire pit later so nothing really goes to waste.
After piling up these wooden fundraising ornaments, you can see how great these really look and they will be bringing joy to people who ordered these for the fundraising efforts for years to come.
Here’s a close-up of the finished wooden fundraising ornaments, easily painted, cost-effective and delivered on budget and time by CNCROi.com.
Need something custom fabricated? Contact CNCROi.com right now!
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