Thread: Solid Brass Router Inlay Set

Originally Posted by Mike Wingate

I have had this set for a few years, but have only just got round to using it. I made a Lexan ellipse template, Cut into a piece of test MDF, then removed the outside spacer and routed a piece of mahogany. A few strokes with a sandvik abrasive sheet and the mahogany slipped into the MDF. Perfect.
The real thing. Just like what it said on MLCS router inlay set
I Wagner safety planed the mahogany ellipse as it was not an even thickness. dead safe. Routed the elliptical hole. This is a job for a router table. I am off school with all this snow, school closed and no access to my router plate, so I turned my smaller Elu MOF96 upside down in the vice and cut away. Again a perfect fit. Added glue and too tight. If at first you don't succeed, hit it with a hammer, so in it went. I will leave it to dry, then cut an elliptical hole in the mahogany. It is for a guitar sound-hole rosette. Absolutely brilliant result.

G'day Mike,

Like to see some photos, please.
Regards
Jack

No photos so it didn't happen.

SB

Sent them, so it did!

Photos of the test piece.

Progress.

Glueing and refining the finish on the faces after removing the centre with a 32mm gyide bush.

Sorry for the no show, maybe snow caused the problem.

Great

Originally Posted by Mike Wingate

I have had this set for a few years, but have only just got round to using it. I made a Lexan ellipse template, Cut into a piece of test MDF, then removed the outside spacer and routed a piece of mahogany. A few strokes with a sandvik abrasive sheet and the mahogany slipped into the MDF. Perfect.
The real thing. Just like what it said on MLCS router inlay set
I Wagner safety planed the mahogany ellipse as it was not an even thickness. dead safe. Routed the elliptical hole. This is a job for a router table. I am off school with all this snow, school closed and no access to my router plate, so I turned my smaller Elu MOF96 upside down in the vice and cut away. Again a perfect fit. Added glue and too tight. If at first you don't succeed, hit it with a hammer, so in it went. I will leave it to dry, then cut an elliptical hole in the mahogany. It is for a guitar sound-hole rosette. Absolutely brilliant result.

Mike how did you produce the elliptical shape in the first place and what is the smallest elliptical shape you can produce?
Tom

That's brilliant. Nice work.

I draw the ellipse to size, once upon a time I did this by geometry, now I do it with CAD, often drawing a circle, and stretching it. Print out, stick onto sheet of lexan with Pritt Stick, dry glue. Drill a small hole near an edge. Feed throgh the blade on the Hegner. Cut to the line, clean up on a Carroll Sanding drum, template made. The smallest ellipse I can easily make is 10mm x 6mm, but I can make smaller.

The MLCS inlay set uses a 1/8" bit and a bush of 7/16". I have just made a bush of 7/8" to take a 1/4" bit.

Originally Posted by Mike Wingate

I draw the ellipse to size, once upon a time I did this by geometry, now I do it with CAD, often drawing a circle, and stretching it. Print out, stick onto sheet of lexan with Pritt Stick, dry glue. Drill a small hole near an edge. Feed throgh the blade on the Hegner. Cut to the line, clean up on a Carroll Sanding drum, template made. The smallest ellipse I can easily make is 10mm x 6mm, but I can make smaller.

Just getting back to your elliptical template producing 10mm x 6mm Question: Where would you use this small elliptical shape?
You also say "this is a job for the router table" Have you ever considered doing it in the plunge mode where the cut can be seen each time especially when routin the insert section.
Tom

I never thought they would make such a precise inlay. Very nice.