Recent content by Wal

Hi Mark. I don't think so, the reason being that once the resin and pearl have been placed I run a surfacer over the lot to clean it up in one pass - I only take about 0.1mm off the top of the wood, but that's probably enough to get rid of anything applied to the surface - especially as the...

Thanks for your comments guys. Yep, this is just a test piece using some small ziricote off cuts I have laying around. Hopefully this will turn into making a prototype plinth-type object that makes use of pearl and aluminium wire inlay as well as the resin lettering... and if that's a success...

Just reporting back with some results. To stabilise I used some Liberon White Polish I've had sat around for a while - I let it stand so that the white sediment settled in the bottle, then used a paint brush to apply it fairly liberally. After drying I gave it a quick buff with some 0000...

Thanks guys, plenty of options to get going with there. If I were to use shellac or ca glue, would either of these support a sealing finish? It's probably all a question of chemistry and compatibility, but should I expect a bit of discolouring in the areas of grain that hold the stabilising...

Thanks Trevanion >Have you tried putting some tape like masking tape over it before cutting? sometimes that's enough to stop tearout. I may give that a go - but I reckon with this size of cutter the adhesive on the tape and the way the flutes will clog may be an issue - ie. pushing un-cleared...

Hi all. I'm doing a few test cuts where I'm carving simple letter-forms into Ziricote using a 0.5mm end mill and cutting to a depth of 0.75mm before filling the resulting channels with glue/resin to make them legible. Here's an example: As luck would have it - that was a reasonably...

Hello all. I've recently made a friend of mine a soap dish in oak as a house-warming gift / clutter. Oak isn't perhaps the wisest choice of wood, but there you go. I've asked three people their opinion on how it should be finished: Time served professional shop-fitter - yacht varnish...

Hi Mick, I used http://www.mycncuk.com to research the particulars of my build. There are some pretty clever and helpful folk over on that site. I also had the benefit of being able to jib down the road to have a look at a fellow builders project. Really helps to get your head around the...

Thanks guys. I'll give it a go (over the coming weeks) and post results. Harbo, yes sorry, I meant finish. Wal.

>i will be interested to see this project. Same here Marcros - just need to work out a way of doing it! Wal.

Hello all, Hopefully this isn't too dumb a first post, thanks for reading. I've recently become interested in wood/metal/practical work and have not long completed a nice little test project - cutting out an inlay in mother of pearl. I used my home-built CNC mill and it was originally...