Inlays Saved The Day!

[davidmillerlowe]

I built my own CNC machine so I had no vendor to bad-mouth when my X-axis slipped about an inch while cutting a texture path on a large chunk of Myrtle wood.

I was VERY lucky that the particular 1.5" band of misaligned cuts did not swath through the large group of lettering just below.

In the pictures below I quickly worked some inlays in to cover the worst of the damage..

I'll have the rest of the photos in message 2

[davidmillerlowe]

This is part two of a two part message...

In the end I was able to jam in the inlays in about 2 hours and had time to paint the sign (for my folks) before they left on their camping trip.

I would have taken a dozen hours to fly-cut the whole piece of wood and re-start the process from scratch.

All in all I'm feeling pretty successful!

Mil

[RoutnAbout]

Great Job and Great Save David,
I really like the design and color scheme.

I've had to do things like that in a foam project.
If you hadn't posted the photos of where you inlayed the pieces, it would have been really hard to find it.
Looks good and thanks for sharing the tip and photos.

[jhop]

Great save!! Thanks for posting.

Jim

[glenn]

David,
Great pictorial essay!
1 picture is worth...
Glenn