JACK.S.inlays

My most recently finished inlay, the hair on all of these Alphonse Mucha designs are cut from yew and are definitely the most complex pieces that I have cut

A video of me applying a coat of Osmo oil to my latest Alphonse Mucha inspired inlay. You can see how this inlay was designed in the last video on this page

The big reveal

A look at my latest hand cut wood inlay of a lion, cut from beli sapwood, maple and golden camphor inlaid into an ebony background and framed with a quilted mahogany and ebony border.

So much work has gone into getting this to this really satisfying stage of applying the first coat of finishing oil. I usually apply two coats of Osmo oil to my inlays before polishing on a wheel

A couple of years after completing my most time consuming and definitely my most complex inlay ‘Zodiac’ (see below) I decided to revisit the design, changing the background sections to this

Applying oil to the leopard inlay, really makes that flamed mahogany frame pop

In this video you can see just how many individual sections have gone into making this leopard inlay, you can also see that each spot has been cut out

Here’s a video of me cutting this small face section out on this Jack Nicholson design

This owl really has to be one of my favourite inlays, I love the spalted oak and maple that I used in this

Another Alphonse Mucha design, look at that golden camphor background as it reacts to the light

Here she finally is, after around one hundred and forty hours of work and the first coat of oil

Here I am adding fine ebony dust into all the gaps, I will repeat this process until they’re filled then slowly flood them with a thin CA superglue until level with the surface

All sections now cut, the next stage is the next video

Further along with this zodiac design, looks a bit rough here as the individual sections of wood have the paper design glued onto them

This is a sped up capture taken from the Inspire Pro App showing how I design my inlays before cutting

This was the very first section of this Alphonse Mucha zodiac inlay that I cut, it was also probably the most intricate

Another Inspire Pro video capture showing how I edited this Alphonse Mucha work to use as an inlay design