I don't know why i keep coming back to your videos. I'm not a woodworker, i do not have any sort of skill on the subject, i work with computers, and will never use any of the knowledge gained from your videos. Still i cant stop watching. I am always amazed at the brilliance of your creations. Don't get me wrong, I am not a stupid person, rather the opposite, but what you do is way beyond my power of imagination and problem solving ability, You are an amazing person, and I deeply respect you.
Matthias, you are a magician with wood, mechanical engineering, mathematics and your videos could not be of better quality. Great work! I hope you reap many rewards!
hey Mathias its always a relief to come home after a long frustrating day at school and hear your voice and watch your videos keep it up i know you can
It would get me further in, but I already used the thinnest available. If I was doing it again, I'd use a bigger bit because it cuts faster. A bit more chiseling, but still time saved over a smaller bit.
Good idea. I should have cut the other half out as well to make two wooden inlays to go into a circular hole. That would add the missing circle around the edge.
I think this would look really nice if both the Yin and the Yang were inlays into a third chunk of wood that's a sort of neutral/middle color between the two pieces you used, then of course with a coat of varnish to bring out some more color. : )
Another great video. Been thinking about how I can inlay a gear shape and I can see all the 90 degree corners would need to be hand cut. Did you make your own tiny chisel or is that a specialty tool you sourced?
Im glad to see even the master uses sawdust and glue to make up over cuts,i'm getting a lot better at cutting along lines but still need to keep little jars of s/dust of the piece i'm working on just in case, MAC
If you used something delicate like a 1/8" router bit, or even 1/16" router bit, (assuming you could be careful enough and patient to not break the router) would you be able to use a solid steel rod that was 2x or 3x the size of the bit? Buying the right size steel rod and cutting it to length for the guide seems to be a good option as well.
@Matthiaswandel I think what he is talking about is full 3D... to do so, all you need to do is have your template and the work-piece both on a rotational axis, where you can turn both of them upside down or any given angle by locking both axles together (maybe a chain, but I'm sure you prefer some wood-gears). Additionally, if you can make your router tilt, whenever you tilt the "needle" as well, that way you can get into various cavities...
I meant the chisel you used to clean up the V on the Yin Yang. My Sheffield chisels are about 3/16" this and unless I regrind it (ruin it) I can't see cleaning up tight spots. Just wondered if you had a special chisel, or made one. Thanks for the reply.
From the experience of tightness might you not try reduce the guid dowel diameter (or prepare a separate slightly narrower one) for the outline cut out? Making the guide's centre run closer to the template will move the centre of the cutter inward. Also noticed that the grain's direction for the inlay was not the ideal - but it's still early days?
One way to help with the pieces fitting in would be to use a *very* slightly smaller follower when cutting out the inset, than when cutting out the piece to insert, which means the inset would then be a tiny bit larger. Not too small though or there would be gaps. Nice though - I bought the pantorouter plans a few days ago, hope to try things like this myself soon!
Cool, Man I've seen your work on your webpage before and you are a true genius !!! I'm really impressed by your work and technical skill .. :) have a good one //Ken1
So the bigger the scale, the better the result? So 3:1 would be easier and better quality than 2:1 because your wobbles would be a smaller movement scaled down?
oh! this gave me a great idea for a present. we can use the technic for painting a silhouette of a human you can do it for your gf or mother etc. thx Matthias
thank you for another great video. maybe you could get rid of flaws around the edges if you use a pointy routerhead along the edges of the hole and the same on the wood you lay in. the latter made just a tiny bit bigger than your sketch. so that the edges that meet both have corresponding angled edges. if i´m not clear please ask and i will make you a video on it.
lol I did what you did at 5:05 with a really tiny piece of wood, like a centimeter thick. It get tossed across the garage and I dug my hand into the belt sander. It hurt alot xD
If you mean in terms of depth, no. As long as the "zero depth" is set correctly, the Y axis will be scaled by the same factor (1/3rd, in this case). If it was on a linear bearing it wouldn't be scaled at all. The only issue is that with very extreme depths, the tilt of the router can make the edges of the cut slightly slanted. To avoid that, the mechanism would need to be more complex, to always keep the router (and the follower) perfectly vertical.
What you could have done Matt was rout the two different 'colours' different depths and then smooth it. That way might be easier andtake less time (supposedly)
I'm wondering about using a 3d printer to print out templates with the necessary thickness to use in this situation.... Or would they not have a fine enough resolution to get smooth edges?
Jason Law 3d printing would be fine enough, but it would just take forever. Much faster to make one with conventional means. A laser cutter might help though.
@Matthiaswandel I think what EmperorAst wanted to say by "2.5D" is that you cannot make things with complex undercuts like bent holes. Of course the objects are 3D since they are elongated along 3 axes. But this discussion is over-academical, isn't it!?
Matthias Wandel Just Wondering, why don't you use some nicer finishes than that water based finish? Using higher quality finishes could take an awesome project like this to the next leval!
Wouldnt the Y axis be wrong since its on a hinge and not a linear bearing? For things like this its no issue, but projects with more depth i see issues...
Which tools? The pantorouter? because you use a guide for that so its kind of hard to mess up. Honestly the most skillful part about the whole video was cutting out the yin-yang shape with the box-cutter.
