Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
The owner of the local Woodcraft store, Randy, asked me to make an inlay piece to give to his son for Christmas using the Shaper Origin. His son is 12 years old and a computer programming prodigy. His favorite language for programming is Python. The Python logo is shown above. Randy's idea was to use blue beetle kill pine for the blue part, canary wood for the yellow and gaboon ebony for the base. The blue pine wood was much bluer than it shows in the photo above.I downloaded the logo from the Python web site and used an IOS app to convert it to a SVG file, which is what the Shaper Origin uses. It took some tweaking to turn it into an enclosed vector shape, which is required to be able to do inside and outside cuts with the Shaper, and to adjust its size to match the stock he gave me to work with.A feature of the Shaper Origin that made it perfect for the job was the ability to set an offset for the pocket cut. By making it 0.004” larger than the cut for the inlay pieces, the result was inlays that fit tightly in the pocket, but didn't need to be tapped into place, and are removeable. They weren't glued in, so it's something of a puzzle piece, and a fun desk ornament to play with.The result you see is what I delivered, unfinished, and Randy sanded it and finished it with lacquer. He also cut cylinders of holly for the white eyes of the pythons.When I ran into his son at the store, he thanked me profusely. He's a genuinely fine young man. Randy told me he wrote “From: Rich” on the gift tag.