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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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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