Simple inlay

Jobacca · January 21, 2021, 12:32am

I know it’s a simple design, but I’m proud of figuring out kerf and creating this little pattern in Inkscape from scratch. I’m very interested in inlays and figured I’d start simple. Mahogany and stained birch. Thanks to so many of you for tips and tricks throughout this forum, I’ve been trawling for days

rbtdanforth · January 21, 2021, 12:46am

A really beautiful piece!

jestelle · January 21, 2021, 12:54am

Nice! Love how the grain of the wood is nicely aligned pointing inward with the inlay.

beerfaced · January 21, 2021, 1:22am

Very nice.

kelley1 · January 21, 2021, 2:13am

I love the colors! That’s some really nice work you’ve done.

MakerMatthew · January 21, 2021, 7:58am

Terrific! Keep going! Now that you have kerf down, there is nothing you can’t do!

davidgal2 · January 21, 2021, 2:39pm

Looks like you have it mastered. Very nice looking.

pubultrastar · January 21, 2021, 2:56pm

Great color. Looks like a tight fit, so good job!

stanleycampbell · January 21, 2021, 4:11pm

would make a nice necklace. you could engrave the kids (grandkids) etc in the inlays pieces.

bill.m.davis · January 21, 2021, 6:49pm

I love how you have the grain of the inlay “pointing” to the center. It gives it a unique look having the grain rotate with the orientation.

ChristyM · January 21, 2021, 7:27pm

Really pretty. Can’t wait to see what else you come up with!

cynd11 · January 22, 2021, 11:52am

Excellent job on that, especially with the grain orientation!

outsideofthebox · January 22, 2021, 1:49pm

Beautiful! What type of glue did you use?

Jobacca · January 22, 2021, 6:22pm

No glue- I miraculously got the kerf adjustment perfect so it was a snap-in-to-place situation. They are there to stay

markcall · January 22, 2021, 6:35pm

Beautiful!

crkjelstrom · January 23, 2021, 2:14am

This is why I use finger joints xD I don’t. Do. Glue.

I did everything I could to figure out a way to make my displays with NO GLUE, so I use double sided 3M tape.

Well done kerf is going to be your friend now that you’ve tamed it! Usually I accomplish this by offsetting both objects by .006".

tina.kovach · January 24, 2021, 2:50am

Beautiful. I’m so jealous. I struggle with boxes and kerf. What resources helped you most? I would love to take a formal Inkscape course.

rbtdanforth · January 24, 2021, 3:34am

There are a number of box creating software both website and app for Inkscape.

Jobacca · January 25, 2021, 3:09am

Tbh, it was this user forum and trial and error. And I would pay money to get tutoring on Inkscape and illustrator. It’s like a foreign language and I’m too busy and too old to learn new tricks I think some of the old timers here should go into the tutoring business!

rbtdanforth · January 25, 2021, 5:06am

Many old timers here were just beginners not long ago. I had never opened Inkscape before buying my Glowforge and never opened illustrator even now. My 74th birthday was this month, but there are others here a bit older than myself.