When you do a vcarve inlay, I've been reading that for the male inlay portion, you set the start depth deeper than the female inlay portion. But the numbers that a lot of people use end up being pretty deep depth of cut overall (0.2", which isn't super deep, but deeper than my machine likes to make in one pass).
It looks like you can change the tool max depth of cut, which would normally be fine, except that the initial start depth more or less would create a deeper cut than the max depth. How does one avoid that?
Could you use numbers like this?
Female inlay:
Start depth - 0mm
Flat depth - 2mm
Male inlay:
Start depth - 0mm
Flat depth - 3mm
Will this allow the male portion to be taller so you can stuff it into the female portion and have the gap so you can cut off the excess? Or am I completely misunderstanding how the vcarve inlay method works?
Are you supposed to surface the male portion down to the start depth? If so, why not just set the start depth to 0..?