Inlay Help Please..

Do a google search on Steve Latta. He does a lot of early period stuff with veneer inlay, medalions, etc. and often shows up in FWW and other magazine articles. I believe he may also have a book or two out. The inlay tools that Lie Nielsen came out with recently were pretty much his design I believe.

-- Use the fence Luke

Sharp knife to cut the outline, chisel to trench the outline, #271 “baby” router plane and a Stewart-MacDonald precision router base. Follow the link for some cool tools borrowed from out friends the luthiers.

I would also recommend The Marquetry and Inlay Handbook by Zachary Taylor. He has some home-made channel cutters and stuff that might open you eyes to possibilities.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I made my own scratch stock for doing very fine inlays. I will take a picture of it at the shop today and post. If I’m doing wider inlays by hand, I usually make a small plane iron out of old planer knives, and screw it to a small block of beech. Then I clean up the corners with a sharp chisel.

-- The only easy wood project is a fire

Spoonman,
Check out Tommy McDonalds podcasts at Bobvila.com. He does his podcast as T-Chisse, great stuff. He also has a forum where you can get great answers from him. He has all the stuff you need for scatch stocks and such. He has a couple of projects that he has been teaching to do the inlay work, such as shaded fans used in Federal style furmiture and the laying in Queen Anne style. He shows the whole process.
Have fun, I’m getting hooked on inlay!!

-- Ed Collinge- Edmonds, WA.

I received an email from The Woodwhisperer that cntained a guide, step by step, writeup on an inlay he did for a coffee table… A sunburst pattern… It was very good… Maybe it’s on his website… might take a look…

Oh, it was tray!

Here you go! Enjoy!

http://thewoodwhisperer.com/inlay-process-pictoral-the-ottoman-tray/

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