Bow tie Joint

[ase3558]

This was my first time trying a Bow tie/butterfly joint on a scrap piece of walnut . Think it came out pretty good. Cant wait to try it with some different designs.

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[scottp55]

Austin, Using regular inlay, or VCarved Inlay? Haven't done a standard inlay yet, but you can get pretty fancy using the Vinlay method--Finally got the grain going the right direction on my third try
Looks Clean
Shopbot Beats the heck out of the first time I did one totally by hand
If regular, then what did you use for a tolerance?
Nice slab.
scott

[ase3558]

Just standard inlay. The crack was pretty big so I wanted to get deep enough to hold it together. The inlay is about 0.5". Those v inlays look great! really want to give it a try.

[scottp55]

Yep, FUN (but don't forget to mirror image Male!!
Should have seen me trying to make it fit at the end of a 16 hr day (took me almost a minute before I said "You IDIOT!!". )
Yeah, .2" deep on vulture and .25" on branch.
Like the idea of tree silhouettes holding a board together----Although a "Butterfly" butterfly joint would be Trite but possibly Neat

[myxpykalix]

Austin,
I like your bowtie. I realize this was scrap but what would you do to fill in the larger area? Was that purpleheart you used as the bowtie? Excellent job

[ase3558]

Yes it is purple heart. For the bigger gap I was going to try closing it in on the end with a temporary piece and pouring clear epoxy to fill in that gap. Seen some interesting things done like that and might as well give it a try.