BonesOfTheMoonA wooden record that actually plays.
y0kai [he/him]I can’t believe it plays until i hear it play
Little8LostI can belive it because i know the tech is very simple. What could be a concern are durability and quality. That its a softer material could also affect the sound in a quirky way
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
Not sure wood is a softer material than vinyl (depending on species).
My concern would be the difficulty of engraving without the grain interfering with the groove.
On the scale of a record needle, wood is quite soft. Woods strength comes from its structure working together to resist stressors. So a beam of wood would be stronger than a beam of vinyl, but when being scraped along a grooved surface that strength doesn’t help.
I wonder if densified wood would be better.
"Self-densified" wood could give metal a run for its money
While sustainably-grown wood can be an economical and eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however, thanks to a new self-densifying technique for creating super-strong wood.
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.
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.
bizarrolandIf 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.
From the picture it looks like it might be laser-cut? The grain might still be an issue though idk
Judging by the grate it’s sitting on it’s still sitting in the bed of the laser cutter.
Here’s a 10 year old video of a tortilla being played.
Laser engraving tech has become really accessible in the past five years or so.
An Actual Playable Tortilla Record Etched with a Laser Cutter
daggermoonhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1N9oMS3lRM&pp=ygUNd29vZGVuIHJlY29yZA%3D%3D
Here’s a different wood record.
