BeachBoy Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 (edited) A week or two ago, I posted pics of coasters I had made for my youngest daughter, who is a student at the University of North Carolina. The coasters had the letters N and C inlaid. My other daughter saw them and said she wanted a set as well. The only problem is that she graduated from Furman University. I didn't think that "F U" inlaid into the coasters would be appropriate, for obvious reasons. So I had to come up with a different design. Since my daughter is a fan of Celtic art, particularly the Celtic Tree of Life, I decided to go with that. I found a design by Roshaan Ganief. But that design was for a piece of wall art that was 12 inches in diameter. It was probably a crazy thing to do, but I decided to shrink that design down to a 3 inch diameter and inlay it into each coaster. There are 48 pieces in the design -- those 48 pieces had to fit into a 3-inch diameter circle. Obviously, some of the pieces were tiny. And multiply all that by 8 (6 coasters plus the two sides of the carrier), and you can see that I was dealing with a crazy number of those tiny pieces. I had to borrow my wife's tweezers to assemble the project. And I dropped a couple of the pieces. It was an adventure trying to find them in the sawdust on the floor of my shop. Nevertheless, despite the challenges, I think the final product turned out pretty good -- my daughter thinks so, anyway. The wood I used was Maple and Walnut. They were finished with polyurethane. Edited July 27, 2014 by BeachBoy Wilson's Woodworking and bobscroll 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWSUDEKUM Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Jim this is proof that you are a great father. That would have driven me insane Great work on them. Thanks for sharing them with us. DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryEA Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Well, if I read this anywhere but here, I'd say no way. Great story. Beautiful work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 You are a true master of inlay, along with Jim. I would have cut them out and not attempted the inlay part, but not you. Great job. I enjoyed see them and i will show them to other people to enjoy too Thank you for your humor part too Dick heppnerguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Scroller Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Great work I would have broken half of them, they look fantastic in the stand. thanks for showing. Roly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankorona Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Excellent work!!, looks very well done, thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobscroll Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Jim I think you are a Tenacious guy, Thanks for showing us your skill, Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luperez548 Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Very inspired job, excellent results, your dauther must be very proud of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellis Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Beautiful! jellis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 A project of this type would have driven me immensely to the nut house with no return.You've an eye for high quality for the pleasure of shareing with your loved ones.No greater love to them was spared here.Top of the line one of a kind meticulously done project sir.That's the Carolinian way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Jim they are amazing and so are you. You went above and beyond for your daughter. :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty0312 Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Very very nice.....I like em alot!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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