A good days work

I got to install some custom medallions in a floor today. These are made by Oshkosh Designs, out of Wisconsin. They are CNC machined and sent to us. All I have to do is cut them into the floor. The quality of these are second to none. Not only do they send the medallions ready to install, but they also send a template to cut the floor and they send a pattern bit for the router. The only thing else they could do is install them for me.

Now I know that your thinking that a trained monkey could probably do this. However, I'm about the only one that my company trusts to do this right. Sad isn't it. These medallions only took 45 minutes to install. The rest of the day was spent repairing holes left in the floor from the old radiators, and cutting in 8 flush mount vents in the existing floor. That part took about 6 hours.

Inlay part 2

It is complete. Yay!! Monday night Tuesday morning and most of today was needed for the completion of this medallion. It was a bear to get together. There are a few things that we'll be doing differently if we ever make another one. This morning I took it down to Todd at the shop, and ran it through the time saver sander. That helped out a ton. It was looking pretty rough before that. So, here are the pics of it installed in the floor....

The floor itself has not been sanded that's why it looks so dusty, and that stripe is in the floor. The trimmers must have had something laying there and got some over spray on the floor. Not to worry though, it'll all be sanded out in the morning.

There are four different species of wood. The cross is Rosewood, there is Maple surrounding the cross, the circle is Walnut, and the floor is Red Oak

Inlay

We're making an inlay at work for a floor. It's a Maltese cross. Here is what we've got done so far.

We cut out the maple today. It's going to look just like you see it but the maple will be cut to fit inside and the whole thing will be round. I'll have more pics as it progresses.