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Showing posts with label Custom floor inlays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Custom floor inlays. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

a custom floor inlay

a custom floor inlay

trevor finished up the 68 pieces for a custom floor inlay we're making for a local client today.  you can see half of it here.  it will be 3/4 " thick, 60" in diameter when it's installed.  click the photos to enlarge them.
he started with this cad drawing i made from my memory of a compass rose we did in a 'sea chest' lid about 15 years ago.  that was a small inlay, and i can't find a picture, but i remember the layout.  we then made a quick 1/4 inch mdf sample of half the circle, which gave us patterns for the blanks.  
there was, of course, a little bit of programming involved. but, on the whole, it was a pretty quick piece of cnc work compared to cutting and fitting the pieces by hand.  the next step, is the final fitting and gluing to the mdf core and installing it in the floor after it is laid. more on this project later ...

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Custom CNC Floor Inlay

Custom CNC Floor Inlay

We've got several custom cnc projects going in the shop at the moment. We're making parts for a run of custom directors chairs for another furnituremaker, prototyping some screen panels for a Connecticut designer and making two custom deck inlays for a boat in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee client had a problem with his fuel tank and had to cut a pair of holes in his teak deck. He sent us a drawing and two round teak blanks. We translated the drawing into CNC router language and after cutting the recesses, we're in the process of fitting the individual inlay parts into the 12" diameter pieces of teak that he sent us. We'll be gluing the inlays tomorrow and will probably be sending them out to him Saturday. 4/4/08 Sent them out last Saturday .... click to enlarge...

One of the finished inlays

The client's original drawing

Fitting the inlay piece into a test pocket cut in mdf

Trevor, our cnc programmer / operator, 'pointing up' the round corners left by the router bit



The first inlay ready to glue