I want to try a fairly detailed epoxy inlay. My plan was to just do pockets with a flat end mill, but then I watched some videos where they used vee bits and overlapped vectors. Now it’s getting complicated. I hate to waste a lot of epoxy, so I was hoping for some words of wisdom.
Advanced V carving should actually use less epoxy, and seems to stay in place well, and most importantly affords the greatest possible detail at the surface.
A vcarved path has a tapered bottom, so the most detail is at the surface. If you plan to plane down the epoxy once the design is done, make sure you don’t go lower than the 0 height you’ve set for the design. If you want to skim off the top epoxy after, design your file so the start height is set into the wood a couple mm.
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I do a lot of epoxy inlays. I would also suggest an Advanced V Carve and enable the pocket function. I find .1" is plenty of depth for quality inlays.
Good advice, thank you. Does anyone do overlapping vectors? Is this necessary with AVC?
I don’t use overlapping vectors and it is not necessary. I also forgot to mention that you should shellac and let dry before pouring epoxy as it can bleed into the wood grain.
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A coat or two of shellac also helps keep air bubbles from the wood itself rising through the epoxy. Even if you are diligent about using a torch or heat gun you get one last bubble coming up and exploding on the surface after you walk away from the last time of heating the epoxy. UgggH
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