Vectric Customer

Although it comes with (to me) a steep learning curve (and I'm only a rank beginner), Blender (open source program) will enable you to modify the model and export to stl (among other formats) that can be (subject to the one non V3m model rule) imported into v-carve.

I added a 1/2" shank ER20 adapter (< $13 all-in) to my 1/2" router ... adding runout for sure, but gained access to inexpensive collets ($0.99 all-in, imperial and metric) in a variety of sizes. And I too have visions that one day, when my router gives up, I will rebuild with a spindle. But in the m...

There is always Lewis Carrols' "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

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Thank you Adrian and Michael. Regret the delay in responding to your suggestions.
Brian.

Inspired.

Ausgezeichnet!

Try gluing up a 1/4" thick hardwood blank to a piece of 1/4" Baltic birch plywood, then V-carve the male piece of your inlay into the hardwood side (0.1" start depth, 0.1" flat depth). Those parameters should leave 0.05" of backing when using a 1/4" thick blank but that almost never works out....ho...

Art in the conception and art in the execution.

Wonderful work, wonderful tribute.