Thread: Wire Inlay

I was reading some articles about wire inlays in knife scales and gun stocks and thought that looked pretty easy to do so I decided to take a piece of redheart that I had lying around and figured I would give it a go. I roughed out a scale shape and thought I would experiment. Well since I didn't have any small chisels or anything I took a really small screw driver and used that. Well needless to say it wasn't as easy as I thought. The dull screw driver made it alot harder to make smooth straight lines and it was a "PITA" to get the wire to go where I wanted to go. It was a fun learning experience however. I now know that I need something sharper to make the lines and got some good ideas on how to guide the wire to do what I want it to. Glad I tried it first before making a nice set of scales and having them ruined by not knowing what I was doing. To the people that do wire inlays in knives and stocks kudos. This is how it turned out. Bare in mind this was my practice piece. You can see what inexperience can do to something you think might be easy. Actually looking forward to trying this again and again till I get it the way I want it. It looks better in the picture than it does in person.