A spot of mother of pearl inlaying.

[fwm891]

Well Wal, I've been playing around with the WorkBee for a while now here's one of the latest headstock inlays I've done...



The MOP inlay was cut with 0.5 and 0.3mm end mills, the wood inlays 1.3mm end mill. Feeds @ 20k rpm for the inlay circa 1.5 mm/sec with 0.3mm depth of cut. The wood inlay pockets were cut circa 5mm / sec 1.2mm depth. I remembered you saying about super gluing your MOP to an ali sheet and soak in boiling water to release the parts. I ended up super gluing to thin MDF and soaking in boiling water. The MDF just swells up and flakes away.