So Gerald you inspired me to start embellishing the bottom of my turnings. It occurred to me that the Shaper Origin had potential to make it easy. Before glue up I routed a circle into the bottom piece to exactly match the diameter of the faceplate. After the piece is finished I cut a disc that exactly matches the depression I routed for the faceplate, add whatever engraving I want onto the disc and then glue it into the circular depression. The first one I wasn’t ready to get involved in the design of the engraving and I just added my name. Now that I know it works I will try to design a logo or something fancier. 
Paul

Have heard about this shaper origin. Might have to look into it more. That looks great!!

Now that's a cool idea and looks fantastic!!!

That was using the onboard tools that are built into the software for the tool. I am going to sit down with Fusion 360 and design something with a logo. 
Paul

Me likey!

First I've heard of shaper origin? Watched a few minutes of the video, is that like a hand held CNC or something? Looks very interesting, and EXPENSIVE!!

 

I like that a lot. I will have to look into doing that on my bowls. Thanks for sharing that.

It is a hand held CNC Steve. It has one advantage over a standard CNC and that is it is not limited to size. There is a video of a guy who inlayed a musical staff throughout an entire floor in a music room. I can’t say enough good things about it. I use it on almost every project in some way. It is extremely accurate. Down to .001”. The design software has a long learning curve but once you get it down it makes life easy. Inlay work is a snap. It cuts both the positive and the negative from the same drawing and they fit perfectly every time. 
Paul

To give you an idea of how quick it is that cutting board with the clock inlayed into it probably took less than an hour from start to finish. 
Paul

1 minute ago, Masonsailor said:

To give you an idea of how quick it is that cutting board with the clock inlayed into it probably took less than an hour from start to finish. 
Paul

Incredible!

 

10 minutes ago, Masonsailor said:

It is a hand held CNC Steve. It has one advantage over a standard CNC and that is it is not limited to size. There is a video of a guy who inlayed a musical staff throughout an entire floor in a music room. I can’t say enough good things about it. I use it on almost every project in some way. It is extremely accurate. Down to .001”. The design software has a long learning curve but once you get it down it makes life easy. Inlay work is a snap. It cuts both the positive and the negative from the same drawing and they fit perfectly every time. 
Paul

 

I remember seeing something about Inkscape on their website, I use that when I'm creating DXF's for my little laser, very interesting to me.

 

Looks like you have a wonderful tool and the disc looks great