Charlie...
All the tear out occurred in the male piece before glueing. None occurred when I milled the waste off. The inside of the flower and some of the leaf ends were so fine a detail the pine could not hold it. The gaps are all tight the stain was still not dried when it was glued up. I was thinking a bit with a sharper angle to get a little deeper and a bigger saw gap. I've seen inlay videos where they were use 15 degree bit... I'm going to try again...