Making a STAR WARS inlaid cutting board with my CNC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- With some leftover pieces of wood I made a 3-colors inlaid end-grain cutting board with an inlaid YODA on it! Full process detailed, including design in Vectric Vcarve. Engraved on an Aureus 3X CNC from Euro-Makers (similar to X-Carve or Shapeoko). This involves a lot of sanding. :)
Please don't hesitate to leave a comment if you have a question, a suggestion or just if you liked the video.
As some of you requested it here is a link to all the VCarve files. But... DISCLAIMER: those work for my CNC, please review the carving parameters (especially speeds, feeds and bit types) for your own machine! I don't want you to damage your CNC. :)
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I think this is one of the coolest x carve projects I’ve seen, well done!
Thanks for the files, Stephan - much appreciated!
well done. Thank you for sharing. i just got my first cnc machine cant wait to get it going.
I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun (and spend a lot of time in the garage). ;)
rlly great work! you should make one of uruha rushia next time
*Great Job !* thanks for sharing the all process and drill you use ! i love work with CNC to !
Great Video!! I'm considering buying a CNC and this is making it an easier decision!
NIce work. gives me motivation to get the Lead 1010 running again
Go go go! ;)
Hola , muchas felicidades desde MEXICO !!! Es el mejor contenido que he visto en todo TH-cam , mil gracias por compartir todo ese conocimiento , toda esa experiencia , saludos !!!!!
Great video. Love to see the inlay process. It's so hard to get right.
Thanks. I just made a lengthy tutorial on the vcarving process: th-cam.com/video/RY0zLv3wcyc/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely love the video I want a cnc now...lol
Amazing talent
Bien joué !
you make woodworking an art! beautiful and gorgeous design! we also make cnc machine and usually design tables or desks with it, but never such original board! btw, the caption attracts too much attention and influence the enjoy of watching
Thanks. For the captions, I prefer them to a voice-over as I'm french-speaking so my english accent is so-and-so. ;)
Thank you for the great videos; I am still deciding which CNC machine to buy to start my journey with - but your videos are a real inspiration. One question.. for flattening purposes is there a reason you don't use a flattening bit rather than 6mm end mill. I'm guessing with the larger cut diameter it would save you a lot of time.
Thanks! I have a larger flattening bit with inserts but I must go much slower and do several passes as it vibrates like hell in end grain hard wood. So all in all I'm faster with the 6mm. :)
Most excellent!
16:19 I found a little bug in the board. Thank you for sharing your amazing work.
The little guy doesn't seem to be afraid of the drill! 😅
Perfeito . Com seus vídeos vou tentar fazer pelo menos a logo do you tube rsrsrs. Parabéns lindos trabalhos .
Thanks. Have fun carving! ;)
nice ...........subbed
How does that board look today? Beautiful!
Thanks. It's holding quite well despite more than a year of abuse. :) www.dropbox.com/s/6xwveo9yf8fozs1/IMG_9595.jpeg?dl=0
increible saludos desde lima peru
You have made a good video, but I doubt that all the settings you have made in VCarve Pro are the right ones. I guess the still image in the video on an End Mill 6 mm shows the End Mill that was actually used in the video.
If you download the crv files for the Yoda project and in VCarve Pro and click on Edit… for "End Mill (6 mm) Stepover Fast", you will see that it is stated "1" at "No. Flutes ”. If, on the other hand, you look at the still image of this End Mill in the video, there seem to be 3-4 flutes.
I am a beginner on CNC machines, but as I have understood it, the number of flutes (teeth) affects the Feed Rate that should be used.
With kind regards
Gert Jönsson
Sweden
Hi Gert! When I create a mill in VCarve I generally copy an existing one and set angle, diameter and stepover. As number of flutes doesn't have an impact on the tool path, I generally leave it alone out of sheer lazyness. ;) My 6mm mills are indeed 4 flutes!
Nice 👏👏👏 ...
could you also tell me how you mill with a 15° cutter you do it to the full depth?
you do it in one pass
I generally make passes of max 10mm. If I need a start depth larger than that for the plug I make 'fake' passes (see my other tutorial).
Great video. This would have looked even better if the Star Wars words were in glittery epoxy
Thanks! I didn't have food safe epoxy yet when I did this one.
to quick through the vcarve portion....can't see the entries
Hi Stephan, Great videos!! Thanks for making them and thanks for the files.
How does the snipe affect your pieces with such short pieces in the planer? How do you deal with the snipe?
How flat is your board after so much sanding with a ROS? Do the different woods make it uneven since some woods sand easier?
Thanks again, I really appreciate your time and effort.
Thanks. Strangely my planer makes much less snipe on thin pieces. However I'm always ready to sacrifice the first 1.5in... because if you have snipe it will not glue correctly when you turn it 90°. I completely stopped planing end grain, too dangerous. Now I flatten with the CNC. For sanding I make light passes ( no pushing) so I don't dig in the softer woods. However on end grain, they're all pretty much very hard. 😅 That's why it takes so much time. But now that I flatten on the CNC I can make my cleaning tool paths much closer so I have less to sand.
@@stephanforseilles Thanks a lot Stephan. Wow your planer only has 1.5” of snipe. Mine has around 3”-3.25”. I need to practice my sanding I always get not flat boards with a ROS.
Thanks again for the files. I may make a few for gifts and possibly sell a few.
Hello from Canada. Beautiful Cutting Boards. Please can you tell me where you found this file? I would like to try it. I'm new to Carving. Thanks
Thanks Marc. I think I got the image there pngio.com/images/png-a848700.html
Great Video! In the end product, are there air gaps in-between the inlay piece and the base or does the inlay go all the way down to the bottom of the holes?
Normally there should a gap filled with glue (0.5 to 1MM). Finding the exact depth for that gap requires a bit of experimentation and there is not a "one-size-fits-all-designs" value, unfortunately. :)
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Great project. How much did that c&c machine set you back if you don’t mind my asking.
Thanks. The 1000x1000mm is 2.500€ so comparable to an X-Carve.
Stephan Forseilles : thanks for the info.
Merci pour le partage! ou peut on trouver la fraise 15° ?
J'ai trouvé celles-ci sur Aliexpress.
@@stephanforseilles Merci je viens d'en commander :)
That´s a great video man, congrats! What was your stepover and depth of cut settings for the 15degree V-bit?' Thanks!!
Thanks. I generally go for a pass depth of 5mm (higher I can get chatter in really hard wood) and a stepover close to the tip width (0,2mm in my case). I don't need a super good surface finish at the bottom, it's never visible anyway.
awesome:D by the way what are you using mac or windows?
Regie Regie both... I run Windows on a Mac. 😅
Amazing work. Can I please know what’s the purpose of 2mm taper bit ?
It looks tapered but it's actually a straight ball nose I use for cleanup passes. :)
@@stephanforseilles thanks. can i know why not flat endmill instead of ball nose ?
@@paragprajapati3002 Yes it makes no difference in this case. The finish does not matter because it's on two faces that will be glued together with a small gap.
Stephan Forseilles thank you for feedback
Great job! Where did you get that reddish silicone pad that you use for sanding? Looks nice.
Thanks. Those are actually made for cooking... :) amzn.to/34hgX1u
@@stephanforseilles, ahhh, good idea! And so much cheaper than wood working mats! Thank you!
very nice! I don't use vcarve, I use fusion 360, but I'll see if I can come up with an inlay workflow/rules to use with F360 as well.
greaty job on this. very nice!
F360 is super advanced, I'm pretty sure it can do this without problem. Interested to see how you do it!
Mini cnc router but powerful spindle,, what brand name and how to buy it,, interested
Hello it's sold by a French company called Euro Makers. But it's very similar to an X-Carve (but more ballscrews and less belts). Except for the spindle which is a Kress/AMB but that can be adapted to the X-Carve I think.
CNC: euro-makers.com/fr/381-cnc-aureus-3x
Spindle (but watch out for the Euro plug): euro-makers.com/fr/broches-usinage-cnc/3829-fraiseuse-moteur-fraisage-amb-1050-fme-1-kress-1050w-aureus-3x-4000649061895.html
Beautiful! Which software do you use for inlays? V Carve?
Indeed, V-Carve desktop. :)
What kind of wood is this red?
It's Padauk.
Doesn't this infringe on the copyright owned by the Star Wars franchise by doing this commercially for profit?
What profit ? 😅
What software is the easiest to transfer pictures to cnc ?
Amigo você tem o link da fresa que usou?
Hello. I buy most of my bits here www.cncfraises.fr ; The rest is amazon and Banggood.
What type of wood did you use for each piece?
Base is beech, Yoda is Iroko and the logo is Padauk.
How do you seal the end grain?
With mineral oil and butcher block wax.
Do you have a link for the 15 degree Vbit?
HI Brad, for this specific project I've used these ones: amzn.to/3jX2so8
That that was fantastic I wish I could do that if you would like to send me any more of your files for me to repeat fantastically cutting board
Hello I've added a link in the video description so you can download VCarve and image files. But please review the parameters as those are set for my CNC and bits! :)
Great work....except the "W" looks like its tattooed on his ear. That part of the "W" should have been deleted. Still...Great work👍
Thanks. My goal with this project was to test overlapping overlays in multiple steps, which I pushed further in some other videos (like the 'First Order' and the '"Rush" boards).
Great work! Do you have a preferred vendor for you bits? Thanks in advance!
Hi Mike. Thanks! For the bits: the bad ones (fot flattening, tests, etc) I get on Amazon or Banggood but when I need something durable, precise or even custom, my go-to place is www.cncfraises.fr .
it could be easier to do this 👍
Let me know, I'm always interested to learn new ways!