Inlay Radius Cutter Tip
Recently I’ve been working on a new Federal Card Table for my home. While working on it I decided to use my Lie-Nielsen radius inlay cutter (based off Steve Latta‘s design) to make my apron inlay circular vs rectangular. (Photos of that to come)
So prior to just going hog wild on my apron itself I applied a piece of veneer on my apron cutoff and started playing around with the radius cutter. After trying the layout a couple of times I was happy with the job the cutter did but boy I didn’t like the center point hole that was left behind.
After thinking a bit I overcame this by deciding to do all my layout work and mark my cross hairs in pencil on the apron. After that I cut a few shims and marked a set of cross hairs on them and then broke out the hot glue gun to attached the shims to my apron making sure to align the cross hairs from the shim to the cross hairs on the apron.
Now I have a piece of wood that will receive the center point hole that I can remove with a little heat and have zero marks left behind!
Do you have a different way that you would have (or have) attacked this type of issue? Is so share them in the comments below.
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December 9th, 2009
