V Carve Inlay Cutting Board

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

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Using "Advanced VCarve" in Carbide Create 461 to make Inlays

[IMG_20200321_142953] Now that Carbide Create has the advanced V-Carve feature, it has become possible to make inlays (see picture above). I’m going to go through the steps I used to make the coaster. (Update two weeks later: I am learning that the smaller the angle of the V bit, the better this technique works. 90 degrees… don’t bother. 60 maybe… 30 gives much better results) C2D files: coffee inlay tutorial - inlay side.c2d (624.7 KB) coffee inlay tutorial - coaster side.c2d (449.1 KB) S…

Inlays and outcomes, to VCarve or Inlay

Watching the various inlay threads (@julien and others), and the recent transparent resin combinations lead me to try some. Instead of resin, I went for mixed woods, and the results are very pleasing. The base stock, again taking earlier good ideas, is a bamboo chopping board - 3 for £15.99 on Amazon, with no ‘rough inner layer’. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B088QR69SC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The design is based on the following (royalty free) SVG, with the ambi…