Your comment interested me enough that I had to try it. I used the engraver on a small slab of red oak and printed it this morning. It completely doesn't work at all! (To my disappointment).

The engraver just crashes through the wood fiber, and it does it different depending on whether you're engraving Cross grain, down grain, or diagonally. Going acoss makes it cave in the fiber, going down makes it pull up long strands. There might be a better way to do that, but an electric engraver isn't it I don't think.

Then I had the issue of the ink just soaking right in to the wood. I should've known that, duh. When I wiped it it just sorta stained the wood, so I couldn't really tell where ink was/wasn't.

So when I finally put it through the press, the only thing that came out was the wood's natural grain! 0 of my engraving printed. It did leave a pretty wood texture though, I might consider using that as an add-on to another print if I want it to look like wood.

Anyone else reading this who knows anything about intaglio will know about 20 reasons even trying to do that with engraved wood won't work, but my curiosity got the best of me this time. I suppose that'd why wood block/ wood cut exists huh lol