#25
Learning how to inlay?? strips for a cutting board.
It's not as easy as it looks.......
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The portable router table I built works slick for the flush cuts.
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Cutting board is built.
Red/White oak, hickory, walnut and purple heart.
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Built a hand saver for cutting the inlay strips on the band saw.

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he not busy being born,
Is busy dying.
--Bob Dylan
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#26
I like your hand saver.

I've been wanting to try some inlay.  What was it that you found difficult, is it getting the slot for the inlay just right?  It looks like you had some tear out.
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#27
(12-27-2019, 02:10 PM)farmerj111 Wrote: I like your hand saver.

I've been wanting to try some inlay.  What was it that you found difficult, is it getting the slot for the inlay just right?  It looks like you had some tear out.

The hand saver works slick.  Thanks.

What I have learned so far:
When cutting the slot for the inlay, let the straight bit in the router
do most of the work.  That first cut I only took out about 1/4" w/the
straight bit.  Then cut it in half w/the band saw.  There was too much meat
there for the flush cut bit.......on that pine it split it out cutting against the
end grain.  Latest one I took out 7/16" on three passes w/the straight bit. 
Then the flush cut was much easier and cleaner.  
This is all just a learning experience on 1x8 common pine.
I need to make some guides to clamp the edges together for the glue up
Everything wants to go swimming around as it is clamped.

Already experimenting w/doing inlay that will eventually be the
fronts on a band saw box.
It's in the clamps as we speak.
he not busy being born,
Is busy dying.
--Bob Dylan
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#28
(12-27-2019, 06:53 PM)justdraftn Wrote: The hand saver works slick.  Thanks.

What I have learned so far:
When cutting the slot for the inlay, let the straight bit in the router
do most of the work.  That first cut I only took out about 1/4" w/the
straight bit.  Then cut it in half w/the band saw.  There was too much meat
there for the flush cut bit.......on that pine it split it out cutting against the
end grain.  Latest one I took out 7/16" on three passes w/the straight bit. 
Then the flush cut was much easier and cleaner.  
This is all just a learning experience on 1x8 common pine.
I need to make some guides to clamp the edges together for the glue up
Everything wants to go swimming around as it is clamped.

Already experimenting w/doing inlay that will eventually be the
fronts on a band saw box.
It's in the clamps as we speak.

Hmmm, never considered how to clamp inlay across a board, I could see that getting tricky, but I guess you don't really need a lot of clamping pressure.
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#29
...so, waste not, want not.  

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I'm lik'n this.
he not busy being born,
Is busy dying.
--Bob Dylan
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#30
That looks like it is going to be a nice bandsaw box.
Yes
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#31
(12-29-2019, 02:14 PM)Arlin Eastman Wrote: That looks like it is going to be a nice bandsaw box.
Yes

Thanks! Arlin.

I think you're right.
This creates a whole new concept to enhance a box.

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he not busy being born,
Is busy dying.
--Bob Dylan
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#32
Very cool.  I had seen the inlay process on you tube but had not tried it... Yet.  Never would have thought to apply the process to fronting a band saw box.  Beautifully done. 
Yes.
Jim in Okie
You can tell a lot about the character of a man -
By the way he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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#33
Nice!
Inlay is something I have never taken on.
Thanks for sharing 
Cool
Greg

It's better to burn out than it is to rust

Danchris Nursery
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#34
(12-31-2019, 08:19 AM)BrokenOlMarine Wrote: Very cool.  I had seen the inlay process on you tube but had not tried it... Yet.  Never would have thought to apply the process to fronting a band saw box.  Beautifully done. 
Yes.

(12-31-2019, 09:15 AM)2beast Wrote: Nice!
Inlay is something I have never taken on.
Thanks for sharing 
Cool

Thanks!

Never occurred to me until I started to cut
those practice pieces up for firewood.
he not busy being born,
Is busy dying.
--Bob Dylan
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