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Really like this. Well done! Have three friends with a bicycling history that would find this a wonderful gift.

That is AWESOME! I can well imagine the time that went into editing.

Nicely done Egyptian mythology symbol - the right eye of Horus.
Have a question ... I am planning some carvings in walnut slabs. What, if any, issues have you run into carving in the cookies?
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Beautifully done inlay!!!

Jay,
Not your attention - didn't have location in my profile until later yesterday. Yes, we are close. Looks like Scott T is a WI native also.

Gkas and Scot,
Thanks for the compliments on the box. Bought some small sample sheets of the copper veneer from veneersupplies.com. Cut one sheet into strips for inlay in another box.

Thanks Jay. Appreciate your comments. I wasn't sure I could cut the copper veneer with the CNC, but it worked.

Thanks Steve. It turned out better than I expected. The copper veneer really stood out nicely.

Wood is flame birch. CNC routed butterfly shape then colored black. Cut the copper inlay pieces sandwiched between two layers of thin ply. After copper pieces were glued in, filled with clear epoxy. Sides were routed butterfly outline, inlayed with black wire then filled with clear epoxy. The black ...

Thank all for your advice - makes total sense. No drum sander, so the cut and hand or rotary sand and/or scraper will do it.
Thank you again, it is immensely helpful to have experienced folks to learn from.

New to this. Have a question. Could I run a V-carve inlay through a very light pass on my planer after bandsawing off the majority of the inlay wood? I worry it may chip out tight corners of the inlay.

I am new at this, but one thing I found that caused depth problems across even a small piece of wood, is when clamps were unevenly spaced around the perimeter. This caused the unclamped area to be slightly higher which caused uneven depth across the carvings.
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