How to Make and Inlay a Star
Posted 22 December 2020
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Making decorative inlays can seem daunting, and knowing just where to start can be obscured. Paul put this together as an inlay for you to begin inlaying yourself using any wood you have in your workspace. Enjoy!
Thanks so much for this! Looking forward to it!
Really looking forward to this. I hope to make a small circular table next year and want one of these in the middle!
Thanks so much for this is good
Your looking great Paul!! I can feel your energy from “Across the Pond” while watching your video. I actually just received “your life’s work” book. Essential Woodworking Handtools. I was so relieved to see that it made it here in 1 piece. Although it was opened (the flap to the cardboard box it came in) I suspect by customs. The least they could have done is re-taped it back down. Oh well…..luckily no damage.
As far as I’m considered I now have in possession “The Handtool Woodworking Bible”
Thankyou for being so selfless and sharing your life’s work with the world Paul. I/we will never forget you.
Your projects are always great. Wish I had more time
Be well
Javad
Strange I was just watching Paul making stars on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkinMSfn_g
I like the lighting in this intro – for a while now the episodes seemed a little overexposed to me – the lighting now is great (from my point of view anyway). Great work. Oh, and nice haircut Paul.
Happy New Year Paul and Team
All the best in 2021 and hopefully will be closer to normal
Stay safe and healthy
bob “my granddad’s saw”
A precise star and an even more precise new haircut. Both look dapper!
Have to wait a month or so in doing projects, when your right handed and have a cast half way up the arm. Love watching the videos, getting me through this. Thanks
Hi I enjoy ALL YOUR videos however this one doesn’t play
Happy New Year Paul. This video really got me having fun making stars as Christmas gifts – 4-pointers, 5-pointers, 6-pointers and finally an 8-pointer. Taping the sections together while the glue dries is a brilliant tip. I found that glueing the ebony and mahogany sticks face to face before sawing out the points of the stars to thickness made the assembly a little less tricky. Thank you very much.
I really enjoyed this and am decorating a box lid using this method. I also watched pauls free video on making stars https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/videos/making-wooden-stars/?watched=3400
as i found pauls explanation of laying out the stars easier to follow
I love these, but am wondering if over time, moisture condensation from glasses sitting on them will make the inlay swell and/or eventually come loose?
TEXAS LONE STAR VS HOLIDAY STAR if you want to make a star that looks nice on a Christmas tree or just part of holiday decor you can change the interior angle from 36deg to 45deg and you will get a 4 pointed star rather than a 5 point star which looks very nice. if you take one more step and make just one of the pairs of pieces that make up each point with something less than the 36deg instead of 36 degrees, that point will be longer than the others and will make a super ‘Star of Bethlehem’ type star when put with the other 3 pairs described above. it is no harder than Paul’s design to make. I just did one with the 45 degree inner angle and 22+/- degrees for the longer point and 45 degree / 18 degree combination for the other 3 points and it looks super. Give it a try! Happy Holidays!