Inlays

ov10fac · Post by **ov10fac** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:33 am

Since I haven't even completed the plans, this is probably way to premature a question to ask. But here goes anyway.

I would like to make a distinctive inlay. I have searched the net and found some information, but most involves marquetry. Has anyone done any inlaying, if so are there any books/articles etc that might give me an insight into doing it?

Many thanks, guess its the engineer in my, I like to have everything planned well in advance of the actual doing. You should see my Project Management plan for the canoe project!

bert304 · Post by **bert304** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:19 am

Look around the website at the pictures people have posted. You will see a lot of really nice inlays. I am at the same point thinking about a what type of inlay to do.

Selwyn · Post by **Selwyn** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:21 am

I did a search at Chapters.ca and it gave me many hits of all different books about inlays. Not sure if you have chapters in the US but you could do the same with an online book store that is present in the US. Here is the link to my Chapters search if you want to look at the tittles of some of the books. --------> http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/sea ... ageSize=10

pawistik · Post by **pawistik** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:50 pm

A lot of folks do an inlay of some sort on their canoes and kayaks. Some searching here should surely turn up a few things. Here's one thread on the subject, but there are others (many others): http://www.bearmountainboats.com/phpbb2 ... ight=inlay

I took a different approach, creating a sort of "throughlay" (there must be a term for this). Details on my blog: http://pawistik.blogspot.com/2007/08/ca ... -deck.html

Cheers,
Bryan

ov10fac · Post by **ov10fac** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:11 pm

Bryan,

Wow, nice work. That's exactly what I was thinking of. I'm looking at using Marquetry to create the pattern (my grand daughters name) then do the inlay.

Thanks for the timps and URL.

Erik, Belgium · Post by **Erik, Belgium** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:14 am

here 's some of the inlays on my Winisk canoe

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a317/ ... 1248764428

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a317/ ... 1248764507

/Erik, Belgium

MrKim · Post by **MrKim** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:01 pm

I am a novice at inlays but found using copper, nickel or solder wire is easily done.

sluggo · Post by **sluggo** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:00 am

MrKim, that is really cool! What did you use to cut or groove the deck?

I did an overlay for my kayak, just a small maple leaf. Since it is small, the overlay is not an issue imo.

Here is a link to some really nice and fancy overlay:
http://dashpointpirate.typepad.com/the_ ... _cutt.html

MrKim · Post by **MrKim** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:59 am

Dremel with router attachment.