# Inlay carve times? **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting (X35/X50)\ **Created:** [June 30, 2022, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/inlay-carve-times/13896 "2022-06-30T04:54:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![SurfinGump](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/surfingump/32/7699_2.png) [@SurfinGump](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/SurfinGump)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/inlay-carve-times/13896/21 "2022-08-08T00:25:22Z")
I would suggest not going so deep with the carve. I found 4mm to be the max before the side of the V-Bit starts knocking down the tips of the lines. From the images below, you can see this is a charcuterie board made from oak with a walnut inlay (I don’t like the way it turned out BTW). Vectric is showing the minimum distance of a couple of the lines to be just over 1mm. I am also including screenshots of my toolpaths. Lastly, the type of wood made a difference for me. The harder and more dense woods stood up the best for the male carving, and if I didn’t mention it before, for the male carving, I always cut the **V-Carve** path **FIRST** , then the clearing. This gives extra support to the thin lines. EDIT: For testing, I think I ran either 3 or 4 tests to get the depth and speeds to work and to find the Amana 45611 bit which had a notable contribution to the success. I too have access to Illustrator/Photoshop, but did all of these vectors inside V-Carve Pro. I did have to get into node editing to make the text not overlap, but did not really touch the graphic for the rings which I just found online somewhere. ![CharcuterieBoardInlayOak](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/3X/c/3/c39f4a1b219a234b049a81a37cb0b710f4a2bc9e.jpeg) ![CharcuterieBoardInlay_Female](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/3X/1/5/15e605ee944dc1448ff49adf58404f0d3f45673d.jpeg) ![CharcuterieBoardInlay_Male](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/3X/f/e/fe205a812f4cbe06c78b56bd9e49f4389cc9215b.jpeg) ![CharcuterieBoardInlay_Measured](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/3X/4/3/43aa2a8a413b48a3b64541b9bad6adf443c1daa8.jpeg) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/inlay-carve-times/13896)._