2006年1月10日 · Bill Moran taught me how to do it. The wood needs to be fine grain,not too hard, and not brittle.Ebony is not an easy one to start on.Curly maple is a good starter wood.The wire is called jewelers wire,and is a flat strip about 24 gage and 2mm wide (get half-hard temper).You make a tool (or a set of them) from old hack saw blades.They look like small engraving …

2000年6月6日 · The core would be exposed in the sanding. Also, trying to cut out a tight fitting box channel and inlay square wire in wood would require superb skill. An alternative to gold would be brass, but I would either use gold or silver wire. BTW, I use gold wire for the "berries" in my inlay work, and silver for the vines most of the time.

2006年6月11日 · I have been for a long time wanting to try my hand at inlaying wire into knife handles so i made an inlay tool at work today and when got home gave it a shot. I used a copper wire of sorts. it was a supper ling curl that came off a part i made on the lath and i kept it. i hammered it flat and...

2005年8月12日 · Curly maple is a good starter wood. The wire is called jewelers wire, and is a flat strip about 24 gage and 2mm wide (get half-hard temper).You make a tool (or a set of them) from old hack saw blades. They look like small engraving tools. The blade is ground to the thickness of the wire, and about 3mm long ( to make a cut 3mm deep).

2004年8月20日 · You make them from old hacksaw blades.Joe Keesler sells a kit with tools,wire,and instructions.The tools are pushed into the wood to separate the grain and make a slit that the wire (actually a flat ribbon ) is tapped into. IIRC,Bill Moran covered making the tools and doing the inlay in his "Handles" video pretty well. Stacy

2003年7月27日 · Now, I saturate the handle material with water so as to swell up the crushed wood grain and make it fill in the voids and "grab" the silver wire to hold it in place. Prior to putting the wire in, it is drawn through 220 sand paper to put lengthwise scratches in the sides to help hold it in when the wood is swelled.

2003年7月27日 · 7) Make a lattice pattern of your choice using silver square wire ( triangle shapes are best) and inlay the pattern with crushed turquoise, or fitted pieces of MOP. For the max effect in this you can inlay opal or gold quartz in a California Bowie handle. A gold framed inlay of gold quartz can add thousands to the value of a small damascus bowie.

2015年7月19日 · The link is for 20 gauge square wire, which won't work for inlay. You want ribbon wire (flat wire). Normally, you get wire about 2-4 times as wide as thick. 24 gauge (.5mm) by 2mm works well. For thicker lines, us 22 gauge by 2mm. Here are two threads where I gave some info on doing inlay. I have a tutorial I wrote somewhere.

2005年8月16日 · There are those people who are naturally talented when it comes to design layout and development and can draw a wirework pattern with little effort, while the rest of us have difficulty drawing a straight line using a straight edge. All I can suggest is to practice drawing proposed wire inlay patterns on paper whenever you find the time.

2005年12月5日 · You are mostly correct, Paul. The idea behind the wire inlay is that after you have "pushed" the wood grain aside, when you wet it back up, the grain in curly maple will swell back to its original size and "grab" the wire. Some walnut is conducive to wire inlay. I also think there's a small amount of tradition involved here as well.