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I've made maybe 4 or five things with that same tree. Usually I'll just pour clear resin in the trunk and branches and let the burned laser etched area give the black. This time I used some black mica.
The tree is about 3-3/4" tall and that's about as small as I can go and still have a good "wall" between the leaves and branches so the two colors don't mix.
All these were etched with tape over the wood so when I poured the resin, it wouldn't get into the surrounding wood grain. LBD showed his test with some clear grain filler used as a mask instead of tape and I'll test that out for next time.
BB, neat thing about the lid tenoning is it only takes one blade setup (1/8" from the fence and 3/16" depth) to cut the top/bottom and groove the sides.
Then raise the blade to about 1/2" to get the depth on the top/bottom.
I've made maybe 4 or five things with that same tree. Usually I'll just pour clear resin in the trunk and branches and let the burned laser etched area give the black. This time I used some black mica.
The tree is about 3-3/4" tall and that's about as small as I can go and still have a good "wall" between the leaves and branches so the two colors don't mix.
All these were etched with tape over the wood so when I poured the resin, it wouldn't get into the surrounding wood grain. LBD showed his test with some clear grain filler used as a mask instead of tape and I'll test that out for next time.
BB, neat thing about the lid tenoning is it only takes one blade setup (1/8" from the fence and 3/16" depth) to cut the top/bottom and groove the sides.
Then raise the blade to about 1/2" to get the depth on the top/bottom.
