Wood Inlay and Mirror Images

It should be pretty straight-forward to get a Shapeoko 4 trammed and dialed-in so that it will cut mirror-imaged inlays which have a consistent glue line.

Big things are:

  • work from large → small — level table, level and parallel and plumb Y-axis rails, gantry level and at right-angles to Y-axis, Z-axis carriage level and plumb —if need be, adjust the mount for nod/yaw

See:

and Tramming the Z-Plus:

  • calibrate the belts
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