"Island Dreams"

Beautiful. Where do you get all your different woods?

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

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-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Where did you get the malachite? and what granule size did you use? Looks like coarse to me…
Did you epoxy the mineral into the inclusions? If so, what kind. I’m so full of questions ;-D

Beautiful.

-- Lane Custom Guitars and Basses

Hi all, in answer to alanealane, I buy most of my minerals in the largest chunks I can find. My favorite vendor is Dixie Gems, here in Greenville, SC. I use a mortar and pestle (a really big granite one) to reduce them to the size I want. I also use a set of sifting screens to grade similar size pieces into separate containers, all the way down to a fine powder. I start with the largest chunks that look right, then progress to smaller ones. The final gap filling is done with powder.

The matrix I use is thin cyanoacrylate adhesive. It makes a great binder that is strong, fast, clear, and takes a buff well. CA glue is a bit nasty to use in large quantities, so eye and respiratory protection, a fan to blow fumes away from my face, a good shop exhaust fan are essential.

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Very nice combination of the malachite and the wood. I have seen several projects with this inlay, and the more I see it the more I like it.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

I like this! What a great addition to a wood piece!!

I have no experience in the art of inlay, but would love to incorporate it into a new series of large serving trays that I am producing.

Can you give a heads-up primer on how to get started into this technique.

Thanks
Trev

-- Trevor Premer Head Termite and Servant to the Queen - Heirloom Woodworking