Laser Designs are Hard

[deirdrebeth]

Those wow techniques take much more time - which is why you see far fewer people utilizing them, but they’re definitely out there.

Planar butt jointing techniques

THERE ARE PICTURES DOWN BELOW! Don’t run away because of all the dumb text I’ve recently completed a study of various inlay-esque plane jointing techniques, where two pieces of wood butt up against each other edge-to-edge in the same plane. As with my finger joint roundup, I had a few rules I set up at first to keep the scope manageable. No more than two species of wood involved. No “islands”. All wood needed to be firmly attached to its “side” of the joint Light, constant kerf cor…

Heavily inlaid round box

Greetings, my name is Davos. [IMG_2563] I decided to really go for it with inlaid edges. I was shooting for something that would just take the whole inlaid edge concept to its logical conclusion, and this is where I landed. Notes: I had to develop several techniques to deal with this. I actually failed to make this twice before I got a success, I had to refine my methods to get it right. I’ll talk about it in the main body. All hardwoods 1/8" thick Sanded to 600 grit Wipe on Polyuret…

Bending hardwood with kerf cuts (down with living hinges!)

[IMG_8052] Maple/wenge 1/8". No veneer was harmed in the making of this box. Entire box is sanded to 600 grit and waxed/oiled with Feed-n-wax. Overall dimensions: 5 x 2-5/8 x 1-1/8" (127 x 67 x 25mm) I wanted to make a curved box, but I don’t like the look for living hinges, and I don’t want to fool with using veneers to cover them up. Enter kerf cutting. The general idea is that you remove material from the inside of your curve, and the wood can then be successfully bent. I’ll do this a…

Honestly, spending time digging through any and all of @evansd2’s post will give you more inspiration than you can likely handle!