How do I clamp CNC material with little to no border?

[jepho]

Thanks @xchrisd. Happy to oblige. There you go.

Modifying the SM1 Table and its Clamp System

I have now completed the bed and clamp modifications for my SM1. My original feeling was that it was sometimes quite awkward to hold items to the bed when trying to use the CNC milling functions for SM1. One limitation that I ran into very quickly was the 90mm square workpiece limitation. I assumed that this was partly due to the travel of the head and the length of the clamps that were supplied with SM1. The illustration which follows shows the clamps which were quite long and quite soft and th…

Started making my flat clamp jig for cube carving

I was using the laser to etch 40mm cubes with the letters of the alphabet and everything was fine. I bulk ordered some cubes and was surprised to find that the laser worked well but could not make any impression on the wood where the hard annular ring wood was. The mock-up image shows an example of the end grain that was causing the laser not to burn the wood. The darker wood is the hard compressed ring of the tree. This was disappointing because I did not want to have edge burn or smoke stainin…

https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/a-disaster-in-the-making/