Forget Knives, Pull Out the Waterjet Cutter for This Year's Jack O'Lantern

Any job worth doing is worth overdoing.

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Pumpkin carving is a wonderful tradition and also a great excuse to really go to town on a gourd with some knives, but there is an alternative to your typical annual hack 'n slash. Why not forgo the hand tools and go with something more serious, like a waterjet cutter?

What's the advantage? Precision, mostly. As the folks at the Waterjet Channel illustrate, you just have to press a button and a blast of 60,000 PSI water will complete your uploaded plans with accuracy you could never dream of achieving by hand.

The downside? 60,000 PSI is so much more power than you need to puncture a puny pumpkin, so whatever you cut out of one side is going to get cut out of the other as well. Even if you leave the chunks in, there'll be an outline visible in the flicker of the candlelight. A small price to pay for otherwise impossible designs. The bigger price to pay is going to be the waterjet cutter.

Source: Waterjet Channel

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