Vcarve Inlay on an End Grain Cutting Board 

Any time you can increase your creative skill set it's a good thing. I am in my 70's and just took up a CNC a year ago. Learning all the software and the nuances of the CNC machine has been a great experience. Never too old to learn a new skill. Thanks for sharing your knowledge .

I’m a Derek! But unlike the other I appreciate all the skills required to do what you do. I’ve been a wood worker for 35 years and I’m still intimidated by my CNC. The haters will always hate so just keep doing what you do!

Hey, I'm a 76 year old great grandmother, and that CNC work was wayyy more work than I want to do. It's beautiful!!! All I've made so far is a regular cutting board, and I'm really proud of myself. There is pride of knowing you did your best, and there is pride when you think you're better than others. Even God bragged at the end of each day when He created everything by saying it was "good". When He created man He said that was "very good". Glad you didn't let that comment get you down.

Nice job. It's so easy to make a mistake and trash days of work in an instant, so was good to see you handle the juice groove inlay without issue!

Love this video! I just set up my longmill mk 2 and sufaced my spoil board last night. Very excited to get carving. I've been looking forward to doing inlays and your video is inspiring!!! Thank you

Very well stated! Don't allow critical people to affect your creativity. You have a significant talent.

Okay, you now have me scrambling to figure out where I can put a shop press into my tiny shop. I like the scissor jack modification, BTW.

Great job m8. Ive been cnc ing for about 3 years and have had lots of mixed results with inlays, so i know how difficult they can be. inspiring stuff, well done.

Amen brother! Great job! Never thought of putting an inlay in the juice groove! Keep up the good work! Thank you for sharing!

I tell folks to sit back and fire your videos up like a warm fire. You've taught me a lot and I really enjoyed it. Thanks.🍻

Been in California for many years but the family is from Tennessee so I don't mind the southern accent at all. I've had a CNC for several years and have learned you need to be an artist for designs and an engineer for getting the software to perform the way you want. And also a mechanic to make sure the CNC is working properly. Mostly a woodworker to see a piece of wood for what it can become sitting on a shelf, table, or kitchen counter. Amen y'all

There is a lot time and effort spent on researching, planning and designing, cutting and painting, and just waiting on things to cure in these projects . The machine definitely is only a tool for the artist to use. Awesome work!!

Amen - the groove around the edge to match a ritz cracker is awesome planning and attention to detail. I think I need to steal that feature.

Nice workmanship! Appreciate the commentary throughout! Very helpful.

Nice work. I was considering doing some inlays with my CNC and love the idea of the press for clamping.

I know plenty of CNC Operators. I also know many artists that use CNC as a tool. This is an artist

Wow beautiful work and craftsmanship

Really enjoyed your work!! Looking forward to learning more from you. Thanks for taking the time to make your videos.

AMEN Brother!! Great craftsmanship sir

Amen!! Thanks for those lovely words, cause half these folks have no clue on the work it takes to make something beautiful, unique and special for that client or special someone. Look forward to your next one!

Great videos! I love them, keep it up. I am on the beginning of my woodworking and CNC adventures. It's full of frustrations, but when it comes together it's the best feeling in the world!

I just found your channel. I have been a woodworker for close to 30 years and located in south Alabama as well. Nice to know there are a few of us in the area.

Awesome Job, and well said

Very nice work! I've had my CNC for a few years now, and am currently working on my first end grain inlay. I've watched many videos and seen just as many recommendations for proper settings. So I've decided to just make my best guess and see what happens. Everything is an experiment ~ occasionally something beautiful happens!

Very Cool, I'm a woodworker and I say to others, middle finger up, it takes alot of work to do this stuff!!!

Amen brother 🙌

So... If you use a mechine you're a machine operator? Gosh... I don't have a CNC, yet. But I do have a table saw, drill press, planer, sander, hand drill , multi saw, and more. So I guess I am a machine operator as well. You just keep doing what yoou do. 😎

Warm thx from holland still learning

Amen brother!

AMEN!!! Absolutely fabulous work! Getting use to the southern accent myself. Formerly a cheese head (Wisconsin) and now living in Ozark, Al. Very impressive work, and design. Thank you for sharing, and you have a new subscriber.

I just found you. Amen!! Been wanting to step up my end grain cutting boards. Have stayed away from the cnc. One it intimidated me, two I thought, one more tool, plus learning the darn thing. Watching you and some others, I’m taking a second look. Plus, I like the voice over. I hate guys spending ten minutes explaining how they are going to turn the machine on. Turn it on, I figure some of it out while I watch. Lol. Thanks for the time to share with us what you’ve learned.

A good craftsman uses ANY TOOL AT HIS DISPOSAL to do quality work. What "derek" and the rest of the trolls forget is that ALL WOOD is harvested with a power chainsaw, transported using diesel trucks, planked by a powered saw mill, sized on a power plainer, cut to size using some sort of powered saw, holes drilled using a power drill, more often than not, finished using some sort of powered sander - the list goes on and on. AND THOSE ARE ALL TOOLS TO HELP THE CRAFTSMAN. A CNC machine is simply one of those MANY tools available to the MODERN CRAFTSMAN.

Nicely done!

Top-notch. I look up to you, sir. Technique is outstanding, and attention to every detail. Flawless

Amen Brother!

Excellent work!

Great stuff!!!

Amen brother I have a cnc and it takes serious dedication to create projects..

AMEN!!! Great content...Please keep it coming...I am also in my early 70's and just starting my CNC journey. Stop Learning...Stop Living!!!

Outstanding work! Working to improve my inlays. Thanks for the tips.

Amen brother.

wow,, your patience is astounding.. thats a lot of steps,,but the end was great

Absolutely awesome!

you're right !!! it's just like the 3D Printing it's a creation work !!! i would even say it's an artistical work. i know i'm unable to do do what you are doing a great job !!!!

o, yea. im struggling with learning a new machine and a new software. It's very frustrating at times. Amen to that.

Amen Bro!

Very nice! I have a Onefinity Journeyman and I am just getting started with VCarve Pro and hope to be able to make some cutting boards like yours. Thanks for the video!

That board came out really well … you know, for a machine operator lol. By the way, I use Sapele a lot. I love it. Also, nice job fixing that little blowout.

Amen, hallelujah brother. Now climb down off the cross, I could use the wood. . . Excellent work, look forward to more. Thanks for taking the time to record, edit, and post your work. Not everyone appreciates how much time it adds to a project.

I’m so glad I found your channel. Great content, great commentary. I subscribed. Thanks for sharing your experience. Greetings from Western Australia 🇦🇺

Please, don't worry about the deadbeats on this platform I have two lasers and one flatbed UV printer and just ordered my $5000.00 CNC the amount of work that goes into the design, computer knowledge, and problem solving that comes up during the process of making something is crazy whether you are old school using hand tools or into the future of woodworking (Creating), you are still a creator so don't listen to the "Trolls" !!! just keep doing what you are doing...................We love you !!! Best, Rick. Oh.................AMEN!!!

You have some serious talent!!!

Absolutely Beautiful!!! I am a CNC aficionado, and I can see you are and artists. can way to see your next project.

Very cool. Thank you for sharing.

AMEN brotha!

Good job, Good video

Love the video....keep them coming. I really enjoy watching. I'm getting motivated to try some inlays. I would like to see how you setup your cuts in Vcarve.

I think your work is amazing, and it comes from you, not the machine, the machine is doing what you tell it to! Don’t worry about those little pee-on’s negative comments, obviously they stopped to watch because you sparked their interest 😊

You are right. I also have a cnc and it is pretty hard to do such stuff you do with it. You even manage the tight corners which is not easy at all…

Hallelujah! I've made plenty of firewood using all sorts of tools in the wrong way, including my CNC. This board looks fantastic; I really like how deep you went (I usually limit it to .25"). It seems like you're using a very similar small angle v-bit as well. Those fine lines on the male plug part of the inlay are impressive. Also, thank you for the tips on the juice groove! I need to remember the Ritz size factor.

AMEN!

Amen!

I love it Awesome job brother

Amen X 100!!!

I think you were dead on with your rant. I am a welder by trade or so I say I have designed multimillion dollar oil field equipment now and I am designing and building a cnc router/plasma table and would like to shout out to the creators like yourself as well as the people who first built these cnc machines. I think of myself as some one who is fairly smart but even with all the content on you tube I sometimes find it hard to understand how some people can make things looks so easy when in fact it is not. My thanks to you and all the creators on you tube.

You did a great job on the cutting board. Don't worry, you will always have naysayers in anything you do. Personally, I think you are a skilled craftsman and you do great work. I love woodworking but I don't have a CNC machine, YET. Even though I am in my late 70's, I still enjoy learning something new and interesting. What a legacy that we may be able to leave behind. May the Lord continue to bless you and your work. Take care my friend. Rudy.

Amen

Great video, I'm thinking about getting into cnc. Keep up the good work and don't let the sourpuss get to you.😊

I'm a woodworker, I've made very nice furniture. I wish I could do what you do, it's beautiful. I'm getting started with inlays, I can't seem to figure it out, so massive respect. Looking forward to your next video

Amen😊

Great project, cudos.

Great video, awesome work brother! Loved the gorilla 😂

A warning, this is a bit of a very long boring post, but in spite of what it sounds like, it is not about me, it is all about my appreciation of you, the work you ( and other like you ) are doing and how you do it.. First let me applaud you for all you accomplish in your woodworking including dealing with the " Karens" of the internet. ( you know who you are Derek and friends). Please kep making these great videos. Please feel free to point out what appears to be bad spelling, I don't feel my fingers and type like crap hitting a bunch of keys at once.. I don't wear my feelingss on my sleeve and will edit as needed. This may be only the second or third post I have ever done on a woodworking video or forum. I am about to waste a bit of your time with my own credentials, but,,,, I was programming automated machinery since before there were computers. We used a strip of paper tape with holes puched in it like a ticker tape you see in the old stock trading movies. Light passing through the holes to indicate a positive or negative condition with a collection of the conditions initiating a certain move on the tool.... blah, blah blah . it was simply called N.C. ( numerical control ). That was before I was out of high school. I went through a formal union woodworking apprenticeship and the ensueing required competition to become a journeyman that included several thousand of us internationally and I completed the apprenticeship in record time as the top Journeyman graduating from that very large group. I returned by invitation to the training center as an instructor immediatly upon graduation while simultaneously starting my own company. I was soon later blessed enough to get to study and become friends with the retired head sculptor for the Vatican and improved on my carving skills significantly. I was a one man shop that was really blessed with clients that demanded projects that most woodworking shops would not touch or said couldn't be done. I went through almost a decade with NO sandpaper in my shop and using only hyde glue and/or physical interlocking joinery, doing " proper " period pieces with original methods. We made our scrapers by shocking thick homemade glass into shards I still own roughly 260 Gouges, 70 " carpenter chisels " and maybe 200 or so planes for specific molding cuts. Some I went to England and found or had made custom there but most I made ( as most REAL woodworkers did Derek ) in house. As a propr woodworker I learned about metalurgy, forming , tempering etc. In 1986 I had all of my steel in my shop including hand tools, saws, power tool bits and blades cyrogenically treated at 4 kelvins ( forgove me Derek, you can just google it ). I was regularly published nationally and maintained a 6 figure minimum with several commissioned projects surpassing 7 figures. I reproduced part of the Palace of Versaille and did over $2.7M on a 53' Wooden Yacht. I guess by Dereks standards I am still just a machine operator. I never really cared for cabinets or casework although I built 2 large kitchen that had horizontallly inward curved faces that everyone else said couldn't be produced. I was excited by other new challenges . A neck injury in 1992 lost the functional use of my hands for a long while so I decided I should build a cnc router to keep cash flow going. A tempting cash offer caused me to sell the first router I built and for a moment, I thought I was going into the CNC business but then I met " Derek". Folks would read a few magazine articles and actually think they could just buy a router and puch a button and do what I did. It only took a few Dereks for me to decide I did not have the desire to deal with likes of them. CNC became my weapon of choice for portions of my projects but the decades of fine woodworking are where my real value surfaced. My resume, if I had a need for one will included multiple US presidents, NASA, Dept. of Defense, NFL team owners, major International designers ( like Hermes , Fabrice Grandin both from Paris ) some of the most famous athletes in the world. One of my favorite and most challenging projects ever was developing and producing mold to produce a carbon fiber trombone that included 100% of the components. I departed from wood and produced the molds from Corian for obvious heat and mechanical reasons. Much to my own surprise, the mold worked first go. Tolerances on the slide and other mating parts were basicall +/- 0.0015 ". You have probably seen this black trombone on TV . I could go on much further but by now you should be well fed up with me and I was only hoping the Dereks of the world would know I AM a world class woodworker am am in absolute total respect of the likes of what is done here in this video. Getting from idea to product with CNC requires a lot of effort and investment in workflow development, design balancing, and MUST include previous knowlege of advanced woodworking to keep from wasting all of the other work invested. It is vastly more complicated when you add video production in the middle or your workflow. I bought a bunch of very expensive video equipment, sound and lights etc. and never made public even a single video that I made for my original channel. I stripped my website form 400 pages to a single page last year and have now it totally shut down for the moment. I thought I was going to start producing training videos etc. The effort it takes to produce a video to help other is unappreciated by anyone except for those that have done it. It at least doubles your production time while totally stopping some parts of the project if not duplicating some of the work to make sure you have the footage you need to. All of this while you are doing it to help others ans NO you don't get a bunch of money from RU-vid for doing these kinds of videos. The editing and scripting is an art form all of it's own. When you see a video like this with good lighting, good focus and details explained in easy to understand ways, it was not done by the seat of the pants. It is a LOT of time and effort and this was done as well as any , not to mention the actual woodworking was really functional and tight. M&S Woodworks has earned a spot of very high respect from this "Machine operator".

Amen, brother!! Can't wait to get my CNC to enhance my woodworking projects. Don't worry about the haters too much. Gotta get boring in their mommy's basements.

Screw the negative people.They do not have anything to accomplish in their boring lives.All they do is sit in front of a computer and troll.Great work !

What is the tapered bit you prefer to use for inlay carving? Stunning work!

Thanks for making the video, it turned out beautiful and thanks for sharing your depths. What size spindle do you use? Thank you again

Very very nice work, I love the juice groove. Do you configure you Tapered ball nose as an engraving bit or as a regular tapered ball nose in your tool database?

I'll certainly give you an "AMEN"! And, as someone who's trying to reach the level you've obtained, I appreciate the information you've so generously shared. I'd just like to ask for one more piece of info that might really help me resolve some failures I've had. Would you mind sharing the speeds and feeds you used? Thanks, and keep being a positive creator!

100% correct in saying YOUR A CRAFTSMEN ,ARTIST, AND CREATOR! Keep up the great work! May I ask what CNC are you using

Looks great, brother, most machined parts do, LOL! The other thing creators have that Derek lacks is patience.

I'm glad Mark Lindsay recommended your channel. My spoiler board is getting replaced in the near future and I'm checking out what others use. With using the pegs and side pressure have you had any issues with pieces lifting up? I generally am working with 1/2" boards and if I don't clamp down I have problems. I do like your waist board protecting the spoiler board approach. I might try nylon bolts as a hold down. Last week I ruined a surfacing bit when I hit a steel bolt. Beautiful inlays. (EDIT 20 minutes later...) I just watched the Epoxy Inlay video. Yup, I've had that happen more than a few times.

Great video. I need to try this. What is that clamp you use on the bed?

Your inlay work is amazing and inspiring. But as great as that is, I also noticed your spoilboard. Could you do a video on making it? Thanks

Can you make a video showing how you have you tapered ball nose set up in vectric?

Mate a brilliant Inlay and don't listen to those negative people out there, I would put it down to jealously with respect to what you are creating. I am very new to CNC and would love to make a board like yours. Would you share the tools , speeds etc that you use and how to get the depths for the inlay. Once again Brilliant and an AMEN to you from Australia.

Great vid! Love that press! Where did you get those yellow/orange push clamps? The ones pushing your work piece into the corner?

nice work! You mentioned your start depths and flat depths, but are you using a v-carve toolpath for both the pocket and the inlay? Thanks!

Great video! I have a question, what are your settings as far as depths? I tried EVERYTHING and can’t seem to get it. Vcarve just came out with a vcarve inlay “app” but that only uses v bits. Thanks!

Nice work bud. What kind of bit is that? 30 degree? Thanks

any recommended courses for a beginner, I really like your channel, learning from actual doers and wood experts, I'm starting in the wood crafting as a side hobby but I would like to get more into CAD design for CNC cutting. Thanks for you amazing videos!

Thank you very much !! Great video Great advice I am currently trying my own inlays with your settings from the last video .25sd .01 .027 Any reason you changed this time ? Thanks again!! Cheers

Beautiful work. I assume you're doing the clearance path before the v carve?

Do you get better detail with an endbrain inlay? I tried edge grain and the fine details kept chipping off during the CNC process.

Outstanding work sir and inspirational! Which brand of CNC are you using? I've been learning on the Shapeoko 3 with both positive and negative experiences.

Great video, I just happened to stumbled by your video! Great craftsmanship! May I ask what software you use?

What kind of bit is this in the video. The long pointy one. What angle is that

?? Your creations are amazing. Can you answer a question for me. Are you using a V bit and developing your tool path with the inlay toolpath? I though that's what I heard in one of your videos. If so, are there any tricks in doing it that way? Thanks Dave....

Wow! Nice work, South Alabama. I have a CNC and am just learning. I’m curious where you think you learned the most. Was it on RU-vid? If so, what channels helped the most? Thanks South Louisiana

Great job and do not worry about what other people say. Now for the questions. I am running the same software and machine as yours, I think my spindle may me smaller. But, have you done any work( Inlay) with the new Ver 12 of V Carve Pro? Are you going to do a video on using that software and settings?