Mastiff Silhouette Cutting Board using Zank Inlay

[Rcnewcomb]

This was a quick and easy project.

My daughter has an English Mastiff, so I found silhouette clipart and did a Zank-inlay on the backside of a 7" x 10" x 0.325" bamboo cutting board that I picked up at a Target department store. The inlay material is east indian rosewood that was 0.18" thick. It was in an assortment pack of guitar headplate samples. I used a CMT 60° V-bit with a flat depth of 0.15", and a 1/4" endmill for the clearance areas. I glued it overnight with original Titebond glue and sprayed it with a water-based poly finish.

[gkas]

Nice... I never thought about doing an inlay in something that thin. Stuff to ponder.

[Tex_Lawrence]

Tell them to be careful with that thin bamboo board. One time I ran across some like it in WalMart both 1/4" and 3/8". I had the thought to see if they were so thin they would actually flex. Well, the 3/8" one did flex ... to the point of breaking ... SNAP! (The management didn't want to prosecute me. )

Perhaps it was a defective product.

[scotttarnor]

Nice looking cutting board!

[scottp55]

Nice Randall!!
I've used scraps of button runs at .22-.235" at .2" flat depth... .18" is nice to know:)
Using my remaining EI Rosewood from '95 Very sparingly nowadays!!
Pretty!!
scott

[Savannahdan]

Nice clean cut and the grain patterns compliment.

[laflippin]

That’s a very nice board, Randall! A note to consider for future inlays with thin, precious wood samples...if you need to use every last hundredth of an inch of the thickness of your male stock for an inlay you can first back it with 1/8” - 1/4” birch plywood or melamine or mdf—any kind of cheap waste board that you can laminate to your precious stock. I do that pretty commonly anyway, even with 1/4” male stock, to stabilize the male workpiece during carving.

[Holzarbeiter]

That’s a very nice board, Randall! A note to consider for future inlays with thin, precious wood samples...if you need to use every last hundredth of an inch of the thickness of your male stock for an inlay you can first back it with 1/8” - 1/4” birch plywood or melamine or mdf—any kind of cheap waste board that you can laminate to your precious stock. I do that pretty commonly anyway, even with 1/4” male stock, to stabilize the male workpiece during carving.

Thats a clever idea, thanks for sharing!!

Beautiful inlay work, Randall.