Wood Based Filament - How does it work / How does it look?

[Egon van Engelen]

Hi aWesomeABE, I had some good results with acrylic as a building surface, maybe you could try that. I ordered a MK8 gear for my extruder to try and resolve the flow issues I'm having with my current MK7 gear for this stuff.

[Geoff]

I think most of my problems are in getting it to stick on the build platform. Might I ask what do you use as thickness for your first layer? And do you use your heated bed for Lay-Wood?

Whatever Replicator G's default is, I haven't messed with it, I generally print with 1 shell with the wood filament.. I can't say it gave me much trouble on the flashforge, the only problem I have with it is the price. I set my bed to around 70c and the extruder to 200 and that seems to get it going in a nice shade. 70c even for the bed is a little high, I find if I set it too low tho, the starting layer wont stick well enough.

Be aware it will melt at 180-190c, and that will give you that light shade of wood. Basically, 180c is light shade of wood, 230c is a dark shade, personally it extrudes funny for me at 230, so I go 200-210c