How to Inlay a Bow Tie or Butterfly in Wood To Stabilize a Crack or Cut A Dutchman

whether you call it a bowtie a butterfly or a Dutchman it's still beautiful I [Music] don't care what you call them I really like the way they look and traditionally they're there to save a crack so the crack doesn't split farther a lot of the Nakashima inspired tables have them in there but in all honesty they're really there for looks for aesthetics they can really set off a piece and give that that little bit of interest that you've been looking for and there are a lot of different names they go by but I want to show you the simple way that I do this with hand tools so let's dive in and take a look for these I'm going to be using a piece of Peruvian walnut a little scrap I had lying around I like to keep little odd scraps for this type of thing I don't use any particular format or formula for drawing these out I just literally say I want to be about this long and I put lines in there to show make it shaped like that and I really like them to be kind of odd shaped personally but yeah that's me so for cutting them out I'm actually going to cut in to the middle of the bowtie on either side that will give me a place that I can then cut down to and remove these chunks out just use a rip cut tenon saw to slice down each corner to the middle and try and meet them as close in the middle as possible but you never make them perfect and I always like to clean them up a little bit I want them to be a little bit smoother and what the saw leaves in so it's a little bit of chisel I can not clean up from one side and then I can flip around and clean up the other side and try to get that corner where they meet really nice and clean doesn't take a whole lot of work as long as you're you're careful you can make this look very nice not that really matters that much in the end so it's a little bit of double sided tape I can position it and lock it down in place you can do it without the double-sided tape and just hold it down and Mark it out but I find it tends to slide around a little bit and the double-sided tape just makes it a quick and easy guarantee that it's not going to cause you too many now with the marking knife I want to actually slightly undercut this just a little bit I can use the flat of the marking knife to ride along the wall but I actually like to tip it away a little bit just to try and put the the tip of the knife slightly underneath the block I want to make it a little smaller than it has to be and so after that line has been made I can come in and then make a depth cut now I'm staying away from the line I just made I'm about 1/16 to 1/8 inch away I don't want to get anywhere near it I don't want to compress those fibers I'm just taking a knockdown just as much as one or two solid hits will take it down then with a smaller chisel I'm going to come in with the bevel down and remove out a layer down to what I have just chopped I'm not taking out a solid amount I'm just taking off enough to give myself a depth all the way around this is where you have to be very careful because here it is very easy to blow out the far side so once I've taken it down that first 16 to 1/8 inch I'm going to come back in with the chisel and cut in again and then repeat the process bevel down and remove the waste and I'm just going to do this a few times 16 to 1/8 inch of cut every time some people might use an auger to bore it out but I find this to actually be a little bit faster then as I get close to the end and I'm down to my depth which is about a half inch I'm actually going to go all the way around and go right into that marking gauge line and clean this out and I really want to be very careful to keep the chisel perfectly vertical so that my chops down these walls are really nice and clean I don't like to go all the way through the board I like to leave a little bit about one third of the board at the bottom so in this case I'm only going down 1/2 which is this board is 3/4 thick and then for the glue up on these I like that I have a flat bottom so that the long grain to long grain has a good connection so just use a router plane to clean out the bottom and flatten it out giving it a nice spot for the glue to adhere to speaking of glue don't be afraid to be a little liberal here it will squeeze out that is not a problem you can always pound out the glue so I put a good bit in the bottom and then I put a bead all the way around the outside edge so that when I pound it in it will push that bead down in the walls I don't worry about smearing it on the bottom side squeezing this in will what fill that out nicely so I just pounded all the way down in and until it stops now I always like to leave it with a good amount sticking up above the top so I can come in as a chisel and clean it out it to be careful with the grain run run away that it doesn't run down into the bowtie but this stuff it was fairly straight grained and really easy to take it down fairly close to and then you can plane it down to surface and then I like to finish it with a card scraper because the grain is going in two directions card scraper is great for going across the grain giving it a nice clean finished surface so I hope you enjoyed this it's a really simple task a lot of people like to overthink it and make it bigger than it is and really this particular one took me about 15-20 minutes at most and it's not that big of a deal it is a fairly simple task you don't need to spend a lot of time working on it and making it just right as long as you make your layout correct and save those lines for the very last thing you touch you'll end up with a really nice-looking bowtie so I hope you like this video if you did please hit like and smash that subscribe button I also want to say an incredible thank you to the patrons on patreon you guys the reason why this channel continues today if you'd like to find out more about that you can click the link right over here also if you liked the video feel free to check out one of the 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Id: Iryk-76bmH4

Length: 5min 58sec (358 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 08 2017