Inlay first try

[drewschrader]

Here is my first Inlay try. Using CC v815. The male did not match up very good. I am including my file. The male is pine and the female is cherry. Any thoughts?

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[No_Soup_For_You (Dean F***)]

Bad math on your plug. Setup looks correct, I wouldn’t be using a bit so large to pocket around the plug If you wanna keep those ultrafine tips without a backing where you glue and then machine it off to final.

[Ed.E (Ed)]

I adjusted your numbers a bit along with the area around your plug. Generally speaking, if you offset your plug shape by 1/4" to the outside you should be good. The detail also looks a bunch better with a much smaller clearing bit.
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[Emmess (Matthias Solga)]

my 2 cents:

watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=241eTfM1Dss

The trick is: vcarve inserts are all about cutting him that deep that it looks out of her, means he must be flattened to the level of her. Without leveling both -it looks like your project did not do that- it is gambling whether the plug / he really matches the depth. And then experiment. Without surfacing both parts to her level it just does not work.

My impression with vcarve: with very fine and fine details a side grain project does not work well, The wood breaks alongside the grain, usually with him, less -but not never- with her. That is what it does. So I do rather simple patterns without some fine details like this

the moon insert probably will need some tries though and some very well will fill the firewood bucket.

Fine details break at sharp side grain edges of him (blue), but also with her (red). And yes, can be filled with glue/sand dust mix, functionally ok, looks good, but never excellent:

those rather fine details are IMO only possible with end grain:

[drewschrader]

thanks for the advise…will try again…just adds to the learning curve.