Yeah, if you've ever tried to polish up wood (without any sort of coating), you know it's almost impossible to make it completely smooth, it always has a certain texture to the touch. And here, where you have to pretty much cut it once and can't polish it at all, it's probably going to retain a lot of that texture in the groove. So I guess it is possible that it might """play""", but it would probably be mostly noise with some music coming through at times.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Might work a little better (for a little while) since it's 'cut' via a laser, not friction or gouging - the surface would be relatively smooth in comparison since it's burning the material.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

I'm not convinced. The edges of laser-cut plywood are not smooth, they still have a rough grainy texture to them, and they're also covered in soot which is probably not conducive to music playback.

I'm really interested in hearing what this sounds like, but I don't expect much.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

If I were going to do something like this, I would probably make the wood as flat as possible and then put a high-quality coat of epoxy or some other harder material on top of it and carve the music into that material instead of the wood.