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Thread: Solid Brass Router Inlay Set
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7th January 2010, 01:31 AM #1
Solid Brass Router Inlay Set
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.
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7th January 2010, 12:40 PM #2The Apprentice
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7th January 2010, 10:34 PM #3
No photos so it didn't happen.
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8th January 2010, 03:44 AM #4
Sent them, so it did!
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8th January 2010, 03:47 AM #5
Photos of the test piece.
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8th January 2010, 03:50 AM #6
Progress.
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8th January 2010, 03:52 AM #7
Glueing and refining the finish on the faces after removing the centre with a 32mm gyide bush.
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8th January 2010, 03:54 AM #8
Sorry for the no show, maybe snow caused the problem.
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8th January 2010, 08:12 AM #9The Apprentice
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Great
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21st January 2010, 12:49 AM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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That's brilliant. Nice work.
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21st January 2010, 04:52 AM #12
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.
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21st January 2010, 04:59 AM #13
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.
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7th April 2010, 10:41 AM #14Template Tom
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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.
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11th April 2010, 11:56 AM #15
I never thought they would make such a precise inlay. Very nice.
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