FANTASY MARQUETRY

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13 entries

1 Planning, Drawing and Veneer Selection

Why am I blogging this? This will be my second marquetry using veneers. This one will be much more difficult than my first recently finished practi...

2 Planning, Drawing and Veneer Selection

Finally was able to get a little work done on my wizard marquetry. I was planning to make a large picture about the size of two A4 pieces of paper,...

3 Preparing A Packet For Cutting

You might remember from the last time that I was busy preparing veneers by cutting them to size and also putting reinforcing tape on the face sides...

4 Evolution of the Wizard Design

WARNING  An important part of this marquetry, but no woodworking involved. Since I am attempting to take you on my complete novice journey wit...

5 Assembling the packet (at Last)

I finally got all my veneer patches placed, at least those that would be cut this time. Here they are finished. The next job was to tape the layers...

6 Learning to Drive my Chevalet

After getting the packet ready for sawing I put clear packing tape on the top and bottom, partly to lubricate the blade and more importantly to giv...

7 Another Marquetry Process

I didn’t get much done today on my wizard marquetry, but what I did do maybe brings up an interesting topic, sand shading. A disclaimer here as I h...

8 Working through the unexpected problems

My cutting didn’t go so well today. I experienced the same problem with the pattern lifting off the packet as I cut. I finally figured out that it ...

9 The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Having the same problems today with the pattern and I messed up a lot. On the positive side I will learn a lot about how to do repairs as there wil...

10 Repair Work

Today was mainly devoted to repair work. I had a lot of bad cuts due to the pattern coming loose (my fault). Repair method I found that the easiest...