Tutorial - Inlay Banding - joint project of Ellen35 & moonls (Lorna)
As a result of Lorna’s posting of her bow box, several requests were made regarding how to make inlay banding. We are not experts by any measure but here is our joint tutorial on making “wolf’s tooth” banding. We watched many videos and did lots of practice pieces before getting even remotely adequate at it. So… here goes! PREPARE THE WOOD:In this example, we used 3 woods: maple, walnut and mahogany. We prepared the wood in the usual way by making sure it was flat and square. We used 4” x 20” strips of wood. We then used the bandsaw to make 4” x 1/8” strong (for sanding later) strips. Make 3 walnut (2 for outer sandwich and 1 for center of wolf’s tooth), 3 maple (ditto), and...
