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    Leaf, vine - inlay test piece

    I posted photos of this last year when I did the inlay work and now have a video showing what and how the inlay was accomplished.

    It's Walnut with African Mahogany and Cherry inlay, French polish finish, and is a test piece for a larger panel I plan to inlay at some point this year.



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    Very nice, thanks for posting.

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    Truly fabulous!!
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    Thanks, Guys! It was a fun project, now if I can just find the time to do the larger panel...

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    Well done David. Enjoyable to watch. What software did you use, it's a very organic design.

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    Thanks, Ben! The CAD/CAM software is Fusion 360. From there I sent it to Mach4 for the CNC controller software. I just drew this from scratch in F360, so if the leaves and vine resemble an actual plant it's by accident.

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    I see you are using a vac to remove the sawdust/ chips but it looks like you have a 4" flex pipe for a dust collector going to your spindle. Is it just to make it easier to create the video or is there another reason?

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    It's just because video with everything hidden by the dust shoe is rather boring. So I make the extreme sacrifice to do video for my handful of viewers knowing I'll have plenty to clean up afterward.

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    I don't do videos but will admit that sometimes I just want to watch the tooling make the cuts and "conveniently forget" to put on the shoe for collection. It's a mess either way. Nature of the beast.
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    I think that's one of the biggest attractions for me. I can remember in the early 80s watching a plotter printing out circuit boards at IBM. It was only 2 axis but watching how the computer was moving the paper and the pen to draw an accurate line was fascinating to me. The designs took a team months to create with a computer that would fill a living room. With a CNC router it's up to the user to create the design and if you do all the steps correctly you get to watch the router bit move as you want while the wood goes from a flat board to what you imagined. It's like working with rough cut lumber. Whether it's the jointer or planer the wood goes in very uninteresting and comes out for the first time you can really see it's beauty.

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    I've been running this CNC for 4 years and I still watch almost everything it does. It is kind of cool that it's doing what I 'commanded'; growing up I never would've thought we could one day do this. When our TV in the mid to late 60's had a remote control we often changed the channel and volume just to watch it work. Of course, there were only 3 channels and you couldn't select them, it just advanced to the next channel and then the next and the next time you were back where you started. But it was cool!

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    That turned out very well and it is a nice design.

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    Thanks, Brad!

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    An excellent video and very helpful - Thank you

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    Thanks, John! It was a fun project, indeed.

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