Inlay on painted timber

**bing** · 10th June 2022, 04:04 AM

Hi there,
I put 5mm wide timber inlay into a little timber walnut box sand and clear coat it’s fairly simple.
I would like to build a little box with inlay but paint it black instead of clear coat . I can’t work out how to sand job then paint it with the inlay ,
Masking inlay then paint ? When I remove masking tape I’m left with a small trench in the finish.
Any help much appreciated
Roy

**russ57** · 12th June 2022, 07:28 PM

Can you leave the inlay slightly proud of the surface then paint? {that is, sand then inlay then paint }. Then carefully sand the inlay down to flush? You might need to clear coat the lot afterwards.

Or mask it off, paint then clear coat to fill the hollow?

**ubeaut** · 17th June 2022, 04:29 PM

If you want to paint the box black and not the inlay... Paint the box then do the inlay.

If you want to paint the inlay black. Paint it with small brush and go very carefully around the edges with a very small pointed brush. although it seems a waste to paint the inlay black. Might just as well paint the the area of the box where inlay was to go, black and forget about the inlay.

Sorry if I'm not quite understanding the idea of what you want to do.

Cheers - Neil

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