Bulldog V-Inlay

[woodwrangler]

Being my second day with the AR8, I figured I'd give the an inlay an attempt.   It turned out pretty darn good considering my lack of knowledge on the subject.  I used VCarve Pro 8.5 to create the drawing and toolpaths.

The woods are Beech (light) and Sapele (dark).

[jesse]

Looks great! how did you separate the inlay from the block of wood?

[woodwrangler]

Resaw on the bandsaw. Then I ran it thru the drum sander (though a hand sander would have been fine too, as the amount to remove was minimal)

[traindriver]

That's cool. I've been wanting to give that a try. Did you use the prism and vcarve toolpath operations, or some other combination?

[gene35146]

I recently tried the inlay for a corn hole game I was making. I used walnut for the inlay and got a lot of chip out in the corner of the letters. I don't have a band saw big enough to resaw so I put the surfacing bit in and brought it down with that before sanding. Had a lot of hand sanding and filling in to get to an acceptable finish.

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[woodwrangler]

Feb 19, 2017 23:18:23 GMT -5 traindriver said:

That's cool. I've been wanting to give that a try. Did you use the prism and vcarve toolpath operations, or some other combination?

I just used some basic vcarving. I found a good video on YouTube, and just followed the simple instructions and it worked out well (not perfect, but great for a first attempt)

[traindriver]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  I've been playing with inlay for a couple of weeks.  This is a piece of a sign I made for my man-cave (Walnut in Maple). I used the best .jpg I could find for it and was amazed at the level of detail that I was able to achieve.


  

[redwood]

Mar 26, 2017 13:35:23 GMT -5 traindriver said:

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  I've been playing with inlay for a couple of weeks.  This is a piece of a sign I made for my man-cave (Walnut in Maple). I used the best .jpg I could find for it and was amazed at the level of detail that I was able to achieve.


  

That looks great.  After a year, I've still not had a chance to try a inlay. Too busy with work and other things. Now I've just upgraded VCarve Pro to Aspire and have lot's more to learn.

I'm hoping to use Aspire to help with modeling Tee signs for a local golf course that is reopening in July after a few years of decline and new ownership.  I already do signs for the restaurant that reopened in Dec. under the same ownership.

[seth]

These are really great. Would you mind sharing the YouTube video you referenced?

[traindriver]

This is the first one I watched. I watched another one, but it was essentially the same thing, with the only exception being the guy did it in metric. This video uses Vectric software and shows screen shots, so it is easy to follow. The main settings are a 1:08 and 2:46.