Does anyone know where I can get information on how to do wire inlay and molten metal inlay in wood.
Thanks
Bob
Does anyone know where I can get information on how to do wire inlay and molten metal inlay in wood.
Thanks
Bob
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I did some work for a guys a few years back that built his own blackpowder guns. He did some beutiful silver inlays into his stocks. Some of the stock blanks he paid upwards of 500 dollars for so he had to be good or waiste alout of money.
Anywho try some custom gunsmithing books? or art books.
I don't know of any books, but I once did a pinrouted pattern in staitr treads and filled w/ molten pewter.
Ahhh..do NOT try to run the resulting work for a light pass thru the planer..the pewter wads up all over the knives..don't ask. LOL.
Whatever ya pour it has to have a few finish nails to anchor the melted inlay, and it has to be pewter, or lead/tin w/antimony or zinc..due to the low melt temps. Silver ( hi temp) will scorch the surroundng wood. Silver is best hammered in, or embedded in colored epoxy.
Key the melted inlay by undercutting the walls. Keep it small, no big pools of metal, it'll shrink and look like a dish. Pour heavy and SCRAPE it flush or use a really fine set Japanese hand plane to level the pour, sanding will get bits in the wood pores, no good. You can then seal the wood and buff the surface prior to final finish coats.
Whatcha makin?
Edit to add: I did this back in the 80's when I worked with a wood worker named Ellis Walentine @ Woodrose, he now runs the WOODWEB.COM site I think, try maybe to raise him over there, he may remember more than I do. It really came out pretty slick.
Edit again, I'ma dolt..I THINK it is WOODCENTRAL.COM.
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Edited 4/8/2008 5:48 pm ET by Sphere
Edited 4/8/2008 6:12 pm ET by Sphere
I took a look thru my past few years of Fine Woodworking and found most the info I need. Still can't come up with much on the molten metal idea. However, there is some info on the web associated with pewter work.
What I'm making is a panel to go under a bar for one leg of a 'U" shaped kitchen. The leg faces the living room. The existing cabinets are cherry with brushed silver pulls. So, the panel will be about 6' x 3' cherry with a silver inlay.
Working on the art work now.
Thanks for the reply.
Bob
It might behoove you to purchase silver solder in various thickness's and rout your recess and epoxy the silver in. Then flush scrape it as you would molten.
I have both strips and bars of silver solder, well the strips are about 1/16 or so ( a tad thinner) by 1/4" wide..for jewelry type work, and i think the bar is maybe 3/16 square..dunno where or why I have that..maybe I snagged it for soldering bandsaw blades.
Try a jeweler and Woodworkers Supply or similar for blade solder,or Round used fro plumbing and HVAC lines.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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