Personalized Wooden Anniversary Trading Card Keepsake

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      For an anniversary gift designed to look like a vintage Topps baseball card, using your 1/8" Basswood, here are the optimized settings for your 10W xTool laser module to make sure the engravings and scores come out deep, dark, and crisp without being foggy:

1. Front and Back Photo Engraving (Raster Layer)
Processing Type: Engrave (Raster)

Image Mode: Stucki (with Invert Color OFF)

Power: 55% to 60% (bumped up slightly from previous tests to get rich, dark contrast)

Speed: 110 mm/s

Lines per cm (LPC): 75 to 100 LPC

Air Assist: LOW (10% to 20%) to keep soot from settling into the dithered details.

2. Pinstripes, Text, and Stat Grids (Vector Score Layer)
Processing Type: Score

Power: 35% to 40%

Speed: 30 mm/s (slowing it down slightly allows the beam to bite deeper into the basswood for a dark, pen-like mark)

Air Assist: LOW

3. Outer Card Cutout (Vector Cut Layer)
Processing Type: Cut

Power: 100%

Speed: 3 mm/s (1 pass) OR 5–6 mm/s (2 passes)

Air Assist: MAX (100% Flow)