Gonzo Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 I've never done in-any work before and have a question for those of you that have. I would like to use 1/4" walnut (dove) into 1/4" maple (cross). What size/type blade should I use? thanks OCtoolguy and Scrolling Steve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackman Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) I would use a FD UR #3 Edited January 19, 2018 by trackman Scrolling Steve and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotshot Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) A few tips that might help: Practice with scrap of the same thickness, and cut circles, tweaking the angle, until you get it set perfect. Biggest secret for getting these perfect is to make sure you cut without any "side pressure." Take it very very slow on the corners (the blade needs to be caught up with zero bow). Hide your entry hole in the deep area behind the wing, between the wing and the tail. With a little practice. you can put the hole right at the edge of your line, in the waste area, and drill through so that it just barely hits the the waste area on the bottom piece, but the angle has to be exact. If you can do that, there will be no visible entry hole at all. It a neat trick if you can pull it off. -----Randy Edited January 19, 2018 by hotshot WayneMahler, Sam777, OCtoolguy and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjweb Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Jim Finn is the local inlay expert, you can also ask him if needed, RJ OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotshot Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) Here is an inlay tutorial that might help as well. You might have to click image below, then click again to bring up the pdf so that you can scroll through it. Edited January 19, 2018 by hotshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 1 hour ago, hotshot said: Here is an inlay tutorial that might help as well. You might have to click image below, then click again to bring up the pdf so that you can scroll through it. Hey Hotshot, your link is broken. Try it again please. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotshot Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, octoolguy said: Hey Hotshot, your link is broken. Try it again please. Ray Try This: Link to PDF Tutorial In Inlay The site trying to be too smart and Preview the contents of any link, which may confuse some browsers, so using the forum link tool to include the link explicitly seems to work more like what I intended. Edited January 19, 2018 by hotshot Lucky2, wombatie, OCtoolguy and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrolling Steve Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 I am glad you asked , I am doing my first try at inlay and will be following along ! OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 1 hour ago, hotshot said: Try This: Link to PDF Tutorial In Inlay The site trying to be too smart and Preview the contents of any link, which may confuse some browsers, so using the forum link tool to include the link explicitly seems to work more like what I intended. This is an excellent tutorial Hotshot. Thanks for posting the link. I took a class in marquetry which is essentially the same thing. I really enjoyed it. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotshot Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) 21 minutes ago, octoolguy said: This is an excellent tutorial Hotshot. Thanks for posting the link. I took a class in marquetry which is essentially the same thing. I really enjoyed it. Ray Marquetry on the Scroll saw? Or did you use the knives/razers? Edited January 19, 2018 by hotshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 43 minutes ago, hotshot said: Marquetry on the Scroll saw? Or did you use the knives/razers? Scroll saw. My wife and I were at the Orange Country fair a couple of years back. There was a man there doing scroll sawing on a home made saw that he powered with one foot. At any speed he wanted to within reason. As slow as possible for what he was doing. When I got interested in watching him, he explained what he was doing. Marquetry/inlay. He gave me his card and said I should attend one of his classes sometime if I was truly interested. So, that began my scroll saw hobby quest. His name is Ken Cowell and he does some beautiful work. He saws/planes/sands all of his veneers from exotic woods and sells them. His veneers are all pretty much less than .0625. Ray wombatie and Scrappile 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted January 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Thanks Trackman for blade suggestion. Thanks Hotshot for the tutorial. I'll try the exercises before attempting the real thing. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordamir Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 hotshot your information provided is great ! Every time I see your work I am absolutely dumfounded. I question myself "how does he ever do that- what an artist". I have had the urge to try it but didn't know how. Downloaded your info and am going to study it. I see my problem might be when blade break the sakura saw arm flies up to protect the blade from hitting pattern or hand to prevent damage. Just remembered I have a 14" rbi that would probably work. Again thank you so much for info. David OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 15 hours ago, octoolguy said: Scroll saw. My wife and I were at the Orange Country fair a couple of years back. There was a man there doing scroll sawing on a home made saw that he powered with one foot. At any speed he wanted to within reason. As slow as possible for what he was doing. When I got interested in watching him, he explained what he was doing. Marquetry/inlay. He gave me his card and said I should attend one of his classes sometime if I was truly interested. So, that began my scroll saw hobby quest. His name is Ken Cowell and he does some beautiful work. He saws/planes/sands all of his veneers from exotic woods and sells them. His veneers are all pretty much less than .0625. Ray Thanks, Ray. I looked up MR. Cowell and watched a video at is site. That is what I want to try to learn to do. The guy does need a new scroll saw...! OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotshot Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 18 hours ago, octoolguy said: Scroll saw. My wife and I were at the Orange Country fair a couple of years back. .. . . . Ray Fodder for another thread, but I would very much like to see a similar tutorial for Marquetry. It has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I understand double bevel inlay, and have done some neat stuff using it, but not sure how that work on very very thin wood. ------Randy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 4 hours ago, Scrappile said: Thanks, Ray. I looked up MR. Cowell and watched a video at is site. That is what I want to try to learn to do. The guy does need a new scroll saw...! He has about 10 of them in his garage where he puts on his classes. I was intrigued by the foot powered one though. I had never seen one like it before. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, hotshot said: Fodder for another thread, but I would very much like to see a similar tutorial for Marquetry. It has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I understand double bevel inlay, and have done some neat stuff using it, but not sure how that work on very very thin wood. ------Randy Randy, I have watched and read many articles on doing it with thicker material and it's really the same. If you are truly interested, buy the book by Craig Vandall Stevens called "The Art of Marquetry". It's very well done with excellent photography. After going through the class, I bought the book and I could see that Ken Cowell patterns his class after the book. I think I found mine on Amazon for about $15. There might be used ones available too. Very good book. I just watched the video that Scrappile mentioned above and downloaded it. I'll post it here if you don't mind. Ray DoubleBevel.mp4 Edited January 20, 2018 by octoolguy To add video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotshot Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 4 hours ago, octoolguy said: buy the book by Craig Vandall Stevens called "The Art of Marquetry". Just Ordered from Amazon :-) OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Just now, hotshot said: Just Ordered from Amazon :-) You won't be sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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