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Oh, excellent job on the inlay by the way!
We are often our own toughest critics, I think your work was very good, especially since its "hopefully" only the beginning, and you continue to explore...

Thank you for this tutorial! This was very informative! Every bit of inlay info I'm trying to really take in, inlays have always been a big interest for me, though I've never really dug in to the...

Excellent! Thank you again Richard.

Though it presents the need for more work, I tend to like symmetry.. so an equal inlay on each side..?

Does anyone have the temperature that horn becomes...

Junk??? Hmmm that's a dubious appraisal. I think they look great, there may be trade-offs with any design depending on the value given to any one aspect.

On that one I notice that the two scales...

Oooo I like that one! Looks fairly easy to do.. just drill the holes, clean them up, and tap the metal rods in.

Hey you know what would be cool, if you guys have different examples of various...

Thanks Richard!
I've considered using independent pins or pins that are a part of the back of the inlay.

When you say "undercut" does that mean the edge goes in to make a slight inverted lip to...

Sorry about that, I should have specified "metal" inlays.

The topic of inlays has been somewhat skipping across my mind like a stone on a pond for a while now.
Most of the designing I do takes...

The fibers that a good point, leads me to assume that if they did use heat, then it would be in conjunction with cutting.. e.g. Cutting the recession, and then heating up the horn and the inlay and...

Hey I've been thinking about inlays a bit and have a couple questions..

I read somewhere about heating horn and inlay to press it into the horn instead of cutting a space out for the inlay.

So...