HOW TO CREATE A BOWTIE INLAY
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- A bowtie inlay, also called a dovetail or butterfly inlay, serves a couple of purposes in your woodworking. If you’re working with a piece that has a crack in it, you can use a bowtie inlay to bridge the crack and stabilize it. If there’s a defect in your board that you want to mask, you can inlay a bowtie or butterfly to cover the defect. Or, if you simply want to add a great looking effect to your woodworking project, this may be it.
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MAKING THE BOWTIE
A bowtie is, basically, a double-ended dovetail. This video provides you with the recommended angle for the dovetail slope. If you’re working on a dark wood, like the walnut shown in the video, you’ll find that it’s much easier to see lines made with a charcoal white pencil that those made with a regular pencil. The bowtie shape gets finalized with a little chisel work.
MAKING THE CUT
The bowtie recess is created by freehand routing. This isn’t as complicated as it may sound. There are some great tips and tricks that’ll help get you through the process. Of course practicing in scrap is always a good idea. The router work is followed up by chisel work. Having your chisel nice and sharp will make it easier to pare to the lines, so spend a little time honing the edge before you get started.
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MORE ON BUTTERFLY JOINTS
One of the cool things about woodworking; there are lots of ways to accomplish woodworking tasks. Check out this article for more info on custom-cut butterfly joints.
DON’T BRIDGE IT, REPAIR IT
On pieces with hairline cracks it may make more sense to repair wood cracks than to span them with a bowtie.
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Best video I saw explaining how to do bowtie. Thanks 🤘⚡
great vid, thanks. is there any general rule of thumb for depth of bow tie to thickness of piece? I have cookie slabs like yours at 10cm thick, what thickness bowtie would you recommend? thanks
Excellent explanation!! There are many "nuggets" of info regarding technique and experience in that video. Thank You!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent Work!!! Thank You!!! 👍😎😃
Great work👍 thank you for the video.
Taper the bow before marking on piece for a perfect fit .
Really helpful--thanks for the details. The angle for the keys and the sandpaper/glue trick especially.
Such precision!
Nice work. I haven't heard let your fingers do the walking phrase in a long time haha.
So you’re telling me I need to buy a plunge router now
Oh no! I have to buy a new powertool!
Great! Been doing lots of live edge the last year, just getting into bow ties to utilize cracked pieces, loved all the little things like glue and sander etc. Keep it up, may get involved in the guild, cheers from Nova Scotia.
Thank you for mentioning alternatives to power tools. Band saws are not in my budget right now.
Great job.
Excellent work. How are you determining the thickness of the bow tie? Depth of crack?
Does the sawdust and glue accept stain?
Great work and beautiful.
Thank You! Just in time, I am exploring using bow ties in some of my work. How did the old timers remove the meat of the bowtie in the project, before routers? A chisel ?
You start with a chisel like a mortise and finish with a hand plane called router plane or "granny tooth". Also they are sometimes called dovetail key and they were sometime use in stones and my guess is that they only used a chisel to carve it in stone
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