Not to bad for a first go at it, how did you cut them out?

hold piece in place, and then scored the table with a razor.

then it was all free hand routing with a 1/8th router bit, I would have used a 1/16th for the edges, but no one had it.

When I used to work for a cabinet shop, we would cut the patterns out from about an inch and a half thick planks with a bandsaw
then we would glue fairly thick, yet still bend-able tin strips around the edge of the cutout. the tin stips would extend a little less than a quarter of an inch from the wood
Making basically wood cookie cutters. we used a knife sharpener on the tin before hand to give it a blade kinda.
We would drill a hole in the center of the "cookie cutter" and just nail it to whatever we were putting inlays in and hit it with a small sledge
Then chisel it out. It worked pretty well, and we could reuse the cookie cutters on other stuff.
Really dense hardwoods, it doesn't always work.

next time I do this, I'll have a template to finish all the pieces on the router for perfect size.. then use a penta router to carve out the shapes in the table.

should make this job take one day, and greatly improve the cuts.


I'll have to make another to text this out, after I finish this one.

pretty nice for a first go.
some filler and a nice gloss coat, and it's awesome.

Try to stay away from using the router next time, routers don't offer the same amount of accuracy as chisels.
Inlays can be paper thin, and no one would know the difference

Wanted the table to be able to withstand many sandings in the future.

I like the thin, Idea.. but I think I can make a jig for the router for perfect edges.