Wood Filament from reprap

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Did somebody try their Wood on k8400?

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I try wood:
dropbox.com/s/9r21vnky3t6dg … 9.jpg?dl=0
dropbox.com/s/wk5c8v0gn0jek … 7.jpg?dl=0

usual PLA settings 0.2 quality

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Next step

I try a more significant print. This filament didn’t like retraction.It finish into a mess into the extruder mecanism. So finally, after some try, I print without retraction at all.
Result look like MDF. At 0.1 layer are almost invisible.

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Yea and you can get a nice finish with some sandingpaper :slight_smile: Have you tried changing temp at layers to get wood grains?

// Marlark

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[quote=“Marlark”]Yea and you can get a nice finish with some sandingpaper :slight_smile: Have you tried changing temp at layers to get wood grains?

// Marlark[/quote]

Changing temp?? How do you do that? Manually during print?

some picture:

dropbox.com/s/6jownivzmejgy … 1.jpg?dl=0
dropbox.com/s/48zyzzq7y3nll … 2.jpg?dl=0

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Dont remember if Repeitier have the ability to change the temp based on layer. Simplify3D does where you can set a list of temps for dif layers. That way the wood filament get a grain effect by getting darker at some temps and lighter at some.

// Marlark