My First Inlay Experience

[stoutman]

I bought a butterfly template (Jasper) from woodcraft and tried it out tonight.

Wow! It was easier than I thought it would be. I'm using the inlay kit with the removable bushing on the router.

My question is : I noticed that I had to either square the corners of the work piece or round the corners of the inlay. Which method is preferred. On my practice piece I squared the corners of the work, but I thought that if a mistake was to be made, it would be better to make it on the inlay ie.round the corners.

What do you do?

[BobS]

Glad to see you liked my suggestion. I prefer using a single-edge razor blade to cut the corners - they look better squared off. The razor blade aligns along the edge nicely and then simply push down (if with the grain) or use a very small tack hammer to tap the blade into cross-grain to make the cuts.

Wow! It was easier than I thought it would be. I'm using the inlay kit with the removable bushing on the router.

My question is : I noticed that I had to either square the corners of the work piece or round the corners of the inlay. Which method is preferred. On my practice piece I squared the corners of the work, but I thought that if a mistake was to be made, it would be better to make it on the inlay ie.round the corners.

What do you do?