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You can't see it unless you look closely, but the leaf has been stuck to the table with double sided sticky tape. Double sticky

Here you can see the score that the knife made.

Pencil makes it easier to see for the routing step.

Real men don't use power tools, they'd use something called a "widow's tooth" or a hand "router plane". Both

All the tools and an errant lens cap. Saftey glasses are helpful when working close in with small fast moving shatter-prone bits

The router with the mill mounted.

Vacuum is essential for this process; you can't see otherwise!

Okay, this isn't the end mill. This is a way-too-expensive 1/8 wood router bit sold by garrett wade. It's much cheaper to buy me

The hole as made by the machine tool

After I used hand tools to clean up to the edge. This isn't as hard as it looks, because the edges of the hand tools (carving to