# Wasteboard.....COMPLETE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Projects\ **Created:** [June 5, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993 "2015-06-05T03:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nathan](https://community.inventables.com/u/Nathan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/1 "2015-06-05T03:55:01Z")
3.5 hours,169 holes,160 threaded 1/4x20 wood inserts, tired hands…she is done…tomorrow I will laser engrave my logo in the middle and polyurethane ---
**Author:** ![JoeMeyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@JoeMeyer](https://community.inventables.com/u/JoeMeyer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/2 "2015-06-05T03:56:11Z")
I don’t see the holes on the side for securing it to the X-Carve… ---
**Author:** ![Nathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nathan](https://community.inventables.com/u/Nathan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/3 "2015-06-05T03:58:52Z")
I was going to put it on there and mark where to drill…I am hoping that will be the easy part…thanks for looking out ---
**Author:** ![AaronMatthews](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/aaronmatthews/32/73728_2.png) [@AaronMatthews](https://community.inventables.com/u/AaronMatthews)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/4 "2015-06-05T18:06:20Z")
Very nice! That was a lot of work to layout and drill. I am planning on making my own waste board to save on shipping and I am _not_ looking forward to drilling all those holes… You know, there should be some way to get the X-Carve to make it’s own waste board. Get a blank board mounted and squared up then run a project to drill the holes (using a drill bit?) and maybe a second project to engrave a grid? I need to think about this before I have to drill 160 holes 😄 ---
**Author:** ![JoeBerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@JoeBerman](https://community.inventables.com/u/JoeBerman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/5 "2015-06-05T18:21:57Z")
I did that for my secondary board ---
**Author:** ![NathanButler](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/nathanbutler/32/21390_2.png) [@NathanButler](https://community.inventables.com/u/NathanButler)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/6 "2015-06-05T20:22:33Z")
I’m absolutely planning to mill my secondary waste board. Poor @VexFX has had lots of issues with leveling his X-Carve, and after seeing his troubles I’ve been making plans to design a pattern that will allow me to put an 1/8" sheet f hard wood or plastic on top of the X-Carve wasteboard (because the X-Carve uses the wasteboard for some rigidity) and mill out holes that match the existing holes so I can fasten the two together. Then I’m also planning to engrave a grid. Does the X-Carve wasteboard come with threaded holes? If so, what thread? 1/4-20? ---
**Author:** ![JoeBerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@JoeBerman](https://community.inventables.com/u/JoeBerman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/7 "2015-06-05T20:32:17Z")
They are m6 metrics 1/4 20 would be better but oh well I just used 3/4 mdf I cut into it alot! ---
**Author:** ![Nathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nathan](https://community.inventables.com/u/Nathan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/wasteboard-complete/8993/8 "2015-06-05T21:58:07Z")
The easy part was drilling…laying out and putting the threaded inserts in is what took long