I am using VCarve to do a multi-inlay project with 3 different types of wood and I’m getting so-so results.
Each inlay is four steps. The “female” piece is done with a straight bit and then a Vbit, and then the same for the “male”.
I watched and followed the VCarve videos on doing the inlay and used their settings for both pieces.
Female: Start Depth of 0.1" and Flat Depth of 0.1"
Male: Start Depth of 0.0" and Flat Depth of 0.2"
The piece seems to fit in pretty well, Doesn’t shift, doesn’t rock, etc but I can’t tell if it is actually bottoming out in the female section.
When we glue it up we glue both pieces and then clamp tightly. We used various amounts of glue, sometimes light, sometimes heavy.
Some of the time the pieces fit really well, fill up the hole, are tight, etc. Other times the inlay ends up loose and not sitting well.
Has anyone else experienced issues doing vbit inlays? Are there settings I could change to make things “tighter” or set us up for better success?