Recently did a test print with Creality Pla-wood. The smell during the print is amazing, I’m kind of hooked. I printed something flat, was easy to sand and stain looks incredible, 100% looks like wood. It’s been 48h and no matter how much I wipe the thing it’s still tacky / leaves a little residue on my hands. Do I just need to wait longer? Is this normal? Is it OK to clearcoat before absolutely bone dry / residue free?
What about sanding more complex structures? Do I need to get a sand blaster for this? Is there a dremel brush I could use?
Yeah, probably needs much thinner coat than what I’m used to using on real wood. The velocity painting idea is neat. Might need to try that sometime. I am using image to stl conversion on this profect to create a shallow negative volume that after staining looks very much like a woodburner etching. I almost wonder if I could apply a wood grain to the print itself by having just a 0.10mm offset of a wood grain stl applied to the surface.