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Next came the carving of the implant. This was done carefully with a tungsten carbide cutter in my dremel. A knife just wouldn't touch it. A hole was drilled through for the screw, see photos 22019 & 22020. This carving and drilling stage took about 2 hours, I have done this sort of thing before in a hurry and removed too much material and scrapped the piece. The implant was continually offered up to the gap, and a little pressure applied. When the implant is then removed, the wet spots on the back are where it had touched the tree underneath and needed more carving. Doing the over and over again eventually yielded a good fitting implant. The screw hole was countersunk so the head of the screw would end up quite a way below the top of the wood.