I bought the Whiteside kit after having watched this video a few years ago. I use inlays to decorate & reinforce any checks in wooden bowls I have turned. My inlays are always a deliberate contrast to the base timber, which shows them off & people love them, saving bowls that would otherwise go into the fire. Thanks for an excellent demonstration.
Clear, useful, and concise. One small thing, you had mentioned that the Whiteside bit was an "upcut" bit. I could be wrong, but the picture looks like a downcut bit. Downcut may actually make more sense as you don't want to fray the edge of the recess cut by the bit. Thanks again.
Your hydraulic pressure needs to be alleviated 1.16" hole at the side from outside to inside will do this. Works for me got taught of a master carpenter.
Excellent, Don't change a thing, your videos are a breath of fresh air in quality and clarity ! I especially like the way you left in the "mistake" and explained why it happened along with the solution :-) Many thanks and you have a new subscriber ;-)
What a brilliant video.I wish I had watched this before I upcycled a rather run down farmhouse table.I made a sort of bow tie jig and used it for both the cut out and insert and filled in the gap with epoxy as a border/feature.That was my first attempt at an insert.I can now refine my technique. Thanks.
Hi Richard, You may like to see some other videos on template routing that I have made recently: How to tackle template routing - the basics: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fDAY-qHkiIE.html How to make router templates: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eH4RFJaVyC0.html There are two more for those who have a CNC. Cheers. Peter
Incredibly well explained. By the end of the video, my understanding of the concept and execution of this demonstration gave me the confidence to begin to tackle my project. Thanks so much and Cheers Mate!
I've seen demos of inlays in past but I must say yours is first rate. I am fixing up an old home and the wood floors have some large holes where I removed some radiators. I can see some custom patterned inlays in their future!
Hello Peter, greetings from Chicago. I really enjoyed your video. Clear and concise narration, excellent sound quality, and good camera work as well. I'm an amateur woodworker and have been on and off with this interest for about 25 years now. Mostly off for the past 16 years having to spend the majority of my free time involved with children growing up. Now as they're a little older, one has shown interest in wood projects and so back to the workshop it is. I've been meaning to try an inlay for a long time, but never felt confident to do so. Bought the necessary equipment which still sits new in its packaging. I plan to open it up now after watching your video. Thanks for the inspiration! Or, perhaps I should say "Cheers, mate!"
HI Peter thank you for your reply.I Watched your 2nd. RU-vid instalment, and you explained it perfectly sorry about wasting your time. many thanks once again.
Very well done. With editing, could have easily skipped over the small mistake, but left it in to show it can happen. New Brit Workshop is the place to be.
Great job! I like the title too - "New Yankee Workshop" = "New Brit Workshop" I love the way you used a plain white background and work bench, makes your content a lot easier to see. I wish other woodworker videos would follow your lead.
Thank you for sharing your video 👍 The bit about the dust build up was spot on. Glad you figured it out. Hopefully they will re-engineer their kit to have similar dust collection path ways.
It certainly is the "useful" piece you intended. Extremely well articulated with excellent video clarity. Your shop is so well outfitted that I felt a tinge of envy. One suggestion: when routing the insert, rather than using double sided tape to immobilize it, set the end mill to a depth that leaves a mm or so of material connected. An exacto knife can be used to assist freeing it followed by sanding off the "flash" providing a slight lead to aid in the insertion.
Thank you for an excellent informational video! I’ve wanted to give making a router inlay a go for quite some time, but I was having trouble understanding the bushing and how it worked. I get it now.
Excellent video, Peter. I would recommend to your viewers, that when making larger inlays, to place a piece of wood between the clamp to insure fully-even glue-up coverage. Keep up the fine work.
Everything about your video is perfect! Easy to understand and Spot on in every way! If your inlay get's pushed in to far and you can't get it out maybe some good quality double stick tape and a small scrap piece of wood would help pull it out.
If you drill a little Well in the centre of the position you aim to place the glue. You have a space for the pressure and glue to run into and you will also find that your inlay fits more flush in the opening.
Just watching your new series on routing and templates as usual to the point and highly instructive. Thanks. This earlier video inspired me to try my hand at inlay and it might be possibly enjoyed by new viewers in line with the current series. Just a thought 😉
I've watched a lot of these videos and while this one is excellent, what is not covered is actually making the template for what you need. If you are going to make a one-time inlay, it can be done freehand with a router and no bushings. But if you want consistent accuracy, then a template is the way to go, but there are limitations as to the sizes of your project. Let me explain: I am trying to make a 4-lane cribbage board that will have the lanes continuous and forming u-turns. You can find several examples of these on Amazon. The problem is accounting for the offset of the bushing. Like a highway, I will call the area between the up and down lanes the "median strip". The cribbage board median strips are 1/4" wide and there are 6 of them in the one I am hoping to build. The calculated offset of using the 1/8" bit in the 5/16" bushing is 7/32". That means that each side of the path containing the 4 lanes will need to be widened by 7/32" for a length and width total of 7/16" in order for the bit to cut the positive out where you want it. But what happens to the median? It gets smaller by being impinged from all sides by the 7/32". You can't subtract 7/32" from both sides of a 1/4" median! To state this even more simply, let's take dominoes, dimension 1x2 inches and that's the size you need to make with a template. Take 2 dominoes side be side, vertically, separated by 1/4". Take a 3rd domino and place it under the first 2 but horizontal to them and touching them. Now, stretch that domino by 1/4" so that is forms a squared-off U. I am not concerned about the corners in this example. Let's say want to use this shape as the inlay. Using the smallest PC template, the 5/16" one, it can't be done with just one template because of the offset. The template has to be increased by 7/32" on all sides with shrinkage of the 1/4" center between the 2 vertical domino shapes to less than zero. You would have to use at least 2 templates, an L-shaped one and then its flipped over side, which would be very difficult to perfectly align. However, one solution is to make a sliding bushing template spacer -- a rectangular piece that would be positioned to cut the left side of the median with the bushing template spacer pushed to the right, then would slide over to the left of that to cut on the right side of the median! Off course, you could "always" do it with a CNC machine, but that's not what we're considering here due to their cost and programming.
Great work Peter. Trend make these inlay bushings in 5 different sizes p183 of 2015 catalogue. So you wouldn't have to modify and larger scope for design. I love it only thing holding things back is imagination on design and use
Hi Peter! As usual, I was researching something and ended up somewhere else. LOL But I must say I LOVED your video. You are truly the Poster Child for ALL RU-vidrs and the like. I have truly enjoyed the video, learned something and thinking I might even be able to try this in my current situation-lack of a workshop and in a flat. My actual goal was to find a router bit to make my own picture frames for some old canvas boards I painted years ago. I found a 1/8" router bit and a kit and not sure how, but I landed on your video and although, your project is completely different than mine, I think I am on the right track for my own project. I want to make just enough of a groove for the canvas board to sit into the outside frame. So, even though I am headed in a different direction right now, I need go no further! Thanks again, Peter! :-)
Hi Peter, finally my new inlay kit as advertised here arrived from America last Saturday. I went to use it today to cut a bow tie in oak and the router bit broke a third of the way round the very first one. I was so looking forward to seeing this bit of kit working as intended so I wouldn’t have to make them by hand.
New Brit Workshop hi Peter, ah I got that inlay kit from America. It took forever to arrive. The inlay kit fits the router perfect. I know you had a slight issue with the fit for yours. All I need is the router bit. I ask around see if I can buy one over here.
Hi Dan, You should be able to get a replacement here in the UK routercutter.co.uk/ They stock Whiteside kit and it is where my inlay kit came from. Peter
Hey Peter, that was very interesting. I never gave a thought to the dust problem, but I will next time I use mine. By the way I just finished your book. What a wonderful imagination. I really enjoyed it. Keep up the great work.
Exelent content Peter. just noticed twenty two thumbs down! Why? I clearly don’t understand the human beings that find some problem with your Tutorial. Regards sir.
Just stumbled upon your video(and subscribed.) Nice to find a European Woodworking Channel, even if I am a Yank, living in France. Love your informative and clear explanations. Now I just have to save my pennies(centimes,( for a Festool router, lol) cheers...rr
Hi Richard, It sounds as though you need to save your Euros - then come to the UK to spend them as the Euro is very strong right now. Welcome to the New Brit Workshop. Peter
Thank you Peter, but isn't Festool German, lol? Don't get to Britain often(after 34 years living in France,) but love it when I can...cheers...rr Normandy, Fra
Hi Richard, many of the UK dealers will have stock purchased when the UK Pound was stronger and so there might be a price advantage buying a tool in the UK - it also helps our balance of payments !! Cheers. Peter
I think it would be nice if the inlay guide had more than oe inlay bushing. One then could do donut inlays for example. I am needing to do an Olympic rings type of inlay on a mantelpiece. One on either side of the horizontal piece. I have an idea I am going to run with but multiple bushings would be helpful. All about market and demand I guess. We are still expected to produce at relatively low cost though. I appreciate your low key yet thorough approach to the subject. I have done a few as well but let's push the boundaries.
Hi, I should have mentioned when cutting the inlay out either by using the table saw or band saw the inlay should face AWAY from you fence so it doesn’t get trapped between the fence and you stock. Cheers Dan
Really enjoying your videos, very informative, very clean and clear making them useful and entertaining to watch. The only thing that annoys me is your pronunciation of router. I understand why you say it like that, but just because most of them say it incorrectly (nobody gets their kicks on rowt 66) doesn't mean you should :)
Outstanding video! You do such lovely job of explaining it all. Very clear and easy to understand. I was researching topic this for my husband, who has little patience with computers and I'm so impressed that I subscribed and went to Amazon to order Stone Message. Added bonus for me is that you sound a bit like John Oliver, of whom I am a big fan. : )
As a newbie, I definitely appreciate you making the process easy. Here's a newbie type question. I have a DeWALT Router (DCW600B), DeWALT Plunge Base (DNP612), and a DeWALT Router Sub Base (DNP613). What brand of template guides bushing set and inlay set would you recommend? Would the Whiteside 9500 Kit be just fine? Thanks in advance! Appreciate your help!
I do not have this router but would suggest you go for a guide bush adapter from Leigh ( www.leightools.com/guide-bushings-adaptors/ ) and then if Leigh have an adapter for your router get the guide bush set from Axminster (product code 110221). Peter
Hi Peter, you gave me inspiration watching this video as always and I wondered if you had considered the following- when cutting out the inlay piece you demonstrated using double back tape to hold the piece in place as it would move or even get stock on the router bit as you get to the last bit and possibly ruin it- I had this problem myself and now what I do is I use a thicker piece of timber, about twice the depth I need- route out to the depth I need and because I haven’t gone all the way through the material the inlay stays in place. Then I take it to the table saw or band saw set my depth of cut and when the material passes the inlay it simply drops off. Just a thought. Cheers Dan
Hello I'm a beginner carpenter and loving your videos. A question if you don't mind. The table with all the holes in it looks to be brilliant. At present I am working in a garage with a bench which has scaffolding boards as a top. Its impossible to clamp anything in the middle of the work which is a problem. After seeing your bench I think I would like to make one myself. Do you have any plans please.
Hi Marilyn, Yes, my plans are all free. Just send me a comment with your email address and I will send the plans to you. Your comment should be hidden from public view as it has an email address in it so it should be safe. Once I have sent the plans I will delete your comment in order to protect your email address. Peter
Hi Pete, great video. Quick question I think the 1/8 cutter bit, corresponds with the bush set up. is that right? to do your inlays.I am having problems, I think its because I am using a trend 3 mm cutter. keep the good work. Curtis
Hi Curtis, Yes, the cutter diameter and the bush diameter are related and it is important to keep the sizes specified. Take a look at this video which may help: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fDAY-qHkiIE.html Peter
Colin Knecht lays a length of dental floss across the trough (aka pocket) before trying a test fit. I've done this on a couple of spruce prototypes with bowtie inlays. Don't skimp on the length of the floss, and have thick gloves handy to protect your hands when pulling the dental floss. Use more than one piece of floss, in case the floss breaks. At 7:18 in ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1a9nx1YzaSw.html
Don't know if these are available in Europe, but the Festool adaptors for the Porter Cable style template guides are 493566 (OF1400) and 469625(OF1010) respectively
Hi Christopher, I used mine yesterday and the results are brilliant. I am making a cabinet for my new keyboard and I have been hiding the wiring for the LED lighting that will illuminate the music stand. It is a very simple to use but effective bit of kit. It will feature in the video in due course. Peter
Hi Peter, great video and have been looking at this 9500 kit to try out some inlay work. Would the UJK guide bush set do the same job? Part number 502571. Seems a more cost effective way as comes with the popular sizes and in 2022 costs roughly the same as that one Whiteside kit.
Hi Gordon, Yes you can and in the following two videos I show you how to do it: Part1 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fDAY-qHkiIE.html Part 2 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eH4RFJaVyC0.html
@@NewBritWorkshop Thank You Peter, much appreciated. Just watched the other two episodes and sort of makes sense now. Printed the chart off for future reference. I have that Dewalt D26204 that you reviewed a while ago. Cracking router but i'm looking forward to the Festool OF1400 coming into stock next week at my local Axminster Tools. Keep up the great work.
Heino Poulsen Hi Heino, Yes, you can arrange to have the right copying rings and I have done the maths but in order to be able to make relatively small radiused templates I think that a kit like this is better. Cheers. Peter
Hi Peter, I had a question in regards to the inlay kit, as you know I purchased the same kit as you show here, after using mine for a while I ended up breaking three router bits. I wondered if you knew if there was a formula or calculation to using guide Bush’s instead. As you know I have the set of Bush’s you recommended. I was hoping to use one template and one bit (larger than the one in the inlay kit) and two different guide bushes. Probably not possible but thought I’d ask anyway. Cheers
Hi Dan, You can use various combinations of bits and guide bushes depending on the size of the template. I think that you can do the maths with the various cutters that you might have in order to find a combination that works. I am sorry not to be more helpful. Peter