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This process offers an opposite appearance to routing. Where routing often has the lettering or image recessed into the surface, sandblasting usually leaves the image raised and the rest of the panel is recessed. This results in most of the panel having a pleasant and tactile undulating surface. This is caused by varying degrees of hardness in the grain of the wood.
The area to remain raised is masked with a self adhesive rubber matt. This has been cut to the desired design using a plotter and fixed to the surface of the timber. Once in place, high pressure sand is blasted at the surface of the wood until it has been eaten away to the desired depth. The panel is then paint finished by hand, to add definition to the design.
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