Charcuterie Tray with Koi Inlay | Wood Inlay | CNC Inlay Making Process | 4K | TK.Designs

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This Koi inlayed Charcuterie Tray is 22 inches long by 12 inches wide and 1 inch thick. Made from Walnut and Inlayed with maple. The tray was made by first joining multiple 1.25 inch thick maple boards to give width, and then plaining down the resultant board with the planer to get a 1 inch thickness.
Then, the bowl section was carved out, followed by placing the inlay. This is a little bit different for me, as I did the inlay with face-grain as opposed to end-grain with my usual inlays.
Another particular challenge was to successfully put the inlay into the recessed portion of the board. It was a good learning experience for me.
This was also my first project where parts were conducted on my Shapeoko 5 Pro CNC.
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Please comment with any questions you might have about the process. Thanks for watching as always!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:12 Preparing the Walnut Tray
01:26 Glue-up of the tray
02:21 V-Carving the Koi Fish Inlay Plug
03:28 Carving the Tray Recess
04:05 Carving the Koi Fish Inlay Pocket
04:54 Gluing the Inlay
05:49 Clearing bulk material from the top of the inlay
08:22 Oiling the tray
09:39 Waxing the tray
10:57 Tray Results and Pictures
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Yonico 35310-SC 1/8" diameter 3 flute upcut endmill: amzn.to/3bEnlWW
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[@chrispelletier3661]

Thank you!!

[@tk.designs]

Thank you for watching, and supporting my channel 🙏

[@zachjonas4231]

Awesome video, have you ever tried Fusion 360 for programming your toolpaths?

[@tk.designs]

Thanks for watching! In a word, no. A while back, Fusion 360 really cut back on the functionality of the program, such as disabling rapids within the gcode. That with the hassle it is to renew the non-commercial version every year made it fairly worthless to me. The learning curve for Fusion 360 was also time consuming. For fabricating parts (3D printable or millable) it is nice to work with, but otherwise I don't use it much. Thanks again for watching!

[@rirsz]

Wow, Awesome! Looks like you got some new toys, congrats. What kind of press are you using?

[@tk.designs]

Thanks for watching! I got the Shapeoko 5 Pro CNC in the middle of this build 😆 The press is a Harbor Freight 12 ton, modified to press in inlays of course.

[@ryanmitchell6760]

Could you comment on the bits used. In the notes you’ve got three tapered bits. Which one did you use for this project and what bit depths/setup? Thank you - beautiful work!

[@tk.designs]

Thanks for watching! This inlay was done with the SpeTool W01005 .5mm diameter Tapered Ballnose Bit, and the Yonico 1/8 downcut bit for clearing larger areas of the inlay. The pocket for the inlay is 8mm deep, the plug was cut at 3 different toolpaths (limitation of the machine, and vectric software), with 1mm start/1.5mm flat, 4.5mm start/1.5mm flat, and 7mm start/1.5mm flat. For me, doing inlays on edge grain or face grain is much more difficult, as I usually do inlays on end-grain. Thank you for your kind words!

[@kevinrich4637]

Nice job. New machine?

[@tk.designs]

Thanks for watching! Yes, it is the Shapeoko 5 Pro.

[@kevinrich4637]

Congratulations one of the 3 I am considering when I upgrade. Have a good weekend

[@tk.designs]

@@kevinrich4637 The Shapeoko 5 pro won out over a couple of different machines I was considering that were half the price and had many of the same features. It is so much more rigid than the other options, even though the other options also had linear rails and ball screws. I am so far, not disappointed with the machine at all. You have a great weekend too, and thanks again for watching!

[@aspirecncworks5686]

whats the press you are using

[@tk.designs]

I am using a Harbor Freight 12 Ton shop press, modified with about 2.5 inch thick plywood to create a flat surface table, and top cover for pressing the inlays. Thanks for watching!