ShopReady Draft 2D · 1:14 · narrated, with captions

An inlaid box lid, part 2 of 4: The Inlay window, and a test coupon

CNC, V-carve inlay opens a window that draws the pocket and the plug seated, to scale: how far the plug goes in, the glue room under it, what stands proud to saw off. A test coupon, a star's pocket and its plug with the same numbers, is drawn beside the lid and simulated.

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Whole project · 4:05

An inlaid box lid: the whole project

A box lid with a word inlaid in it. The lid and the word are drawn from a blank drawing; the Inlay window shows the pocket and the plug seated, to scale; a test coupon is drawn and simulated first; then Make the inlay carves the pocket in the lid and draws the mirrored plug on a board of its own, as a second piece of the job with its own zero and program. Each piece is simulated with nothing to fix. A last chapter shows the same window with a straight bit, and a bowtie.

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Chapter · 1:00

An inlaid box lid, part 1 of 4: The lid and its word

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An inlaid box lid, part 3 of 4: Make the inlay