My first marquetry inlay attempt with the laser. Raster engraved a scrap piece of pine and then did a vector cut on a piece of veneer. Was a pretty good fit without much fuss but I’ll have to do a larger sample to see how much laser kerf comes into play.
I’ll turn the power down a bit on the next engrave as it was a bit too deep in the soft pine. I had it about 1.4v on the meter (didn’t pay attention to the mA) and 350mm/sec speed and 1.1v on the cut at 25mm/sec.
Looks nice!
That is amazing! I should try this…
Definetly on mybucket list …nice
Thanks all. It was really easy actually. I did a 3 second search on google images for dragon svg. Grabbed one for testing and imported it into Corel X5. Sized it roughly where I wanted and that was it. I did one engrave operation on one material and one cut operation on the veneer.
I didn’t mess with inverting the image or allowing for kerf or angle on the burn since it was a pretty thin piece of veneer. Figured it wouldn’t much matter and it really didn’t in this case.
Brushed some wood glue into the engraved pocket and carefully fit the inlay in. Had one small piece break off and lost but otherwise went uneventful.
‘Marqueterie’ is definitely an very good application for our K40.
Laserweb from +Peter van der Walt manage kerf, a definite cool option
(haven’t check LW3), the man himself would confirm it.(also needed for plasma cutting)
Both Marquetry and Marqueterie are correct actually. That said I can’t use Laserweb on a stock board.
I as thinking of giving this a go but now you have done such a good job that i will definitely give it a o well done mate.
