Neillarson
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Today I made my first try at an inlay Celtic Know. Halfway through making the roughs I was convinced that I was in WAY over my head.
I made 3 blanks, a Blood wood with Maple inlay, a Purpleheart with Maple inlay and a walnut with Purpleheart and Maple inlay. I had real problems with the purplehart so I set it aside. The other 2 came out but they were butt ugly.
I turned the blood wood and it looks fantastic. Now I have figured out a few different ways to do things better, wax paper to line a clamp jig, a one sided miter sled for making inlay slices and maybe using the BS instead of the TS to do a lot oof the cutting.
The only problems I had was in putting the pen together. Woodcraft instructions absolutly suck. And that is being nice. So, even though the wood lloks great, the assembly didn't work.
I made 3 blanks, a Blood wood with Maple inlay, a Purpleheart with Maple inlay and a walnut with Purpleheart and Maple inlay. I had real problems with the purplehart so I set it aside. The other 2 came out but they were butt ugly.
I turned the blood wood and it looks fantastic. Now I have figured out a few different ways to do things better, wax paper to line a clamp jig, a one sided miter sled for making inlay slices and maybe using the BS instead of the TS to do a lot oof the cutting.
The only problems I had was in putting the pen together. Woodcraft instructions absolutly suck. And that is being nice. So, even though the wood lloks great, the assembly didn't work.