String Inlay-First Attempt

[Jeff Willard]

Small box from a firewood pile rescue. Of no consequence. Critiques welcome-advice appreciated.

[Michael Peet]

I have neither critiques nor advice. I think they look great.

Mike

[Kent A Bathurst]

Jeff - very nice detail and design.

Your timing is perfect - I've been thinking about something similar, but on a solid wood small table top. Question - what happens to the stringing during seasonal wood movement?

[Mike Henderson]

Looks good. How did you produce the string?

Mike

[Looking at the pictures again, it looks like you have the LN inlay set, which has the tool to make the string.]

[mike holden]

Jeff,
Nicely done!
Amazing how fast and easy that is, isnt it?

Cutting the slot for the inlay is the easy part, tell us how you cut the stringing.
Mike

[Jim Koepke]

Very nice. This is another one of those things that is on my list to learn.

At the Lie-Nielsen Tool Event in Portland I picked up their two DVDs on string inlay.

Not sure if it will be tonight, but I think a batch of popcorn and a note pad are in the very near future.

Thanks for sharing,

jim

[Jeff Willard]

Question - what happens to the stringing during seasonal wood movement?

I don't know :eek:. But I'm sure I'll find out.

Mike and Mike,

Actually I don't have the entire set-yet. I just purchased the straight line and radius tools. I do have the advantage of a Laguna bandsaw equipped with a Driftmaster, so it's easy to tweak the thickness of the string. After that I simply sliced the string to the desired width with a homemade slitting gauge. I built a makeshift shooting board for it out of a piece of MDF with a piece of ash for a fence. I'll fashion something more durable a little later.

Jim,

I'm glad you got the DVD's. Since I don't have 'em you can tell me all the stuff that's in 'em :D. This is all done seat-of-the-pants.

[Andrew Gibson]

Looks great to me. I really need to pick up this skill, I have had a few projects I wanted to try it on but never went for it... guess I need to try something small to get my feet wet like you did.