Marquetry Cutting Styles

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1 Double Bevel or Conical Cutting

To lay some groundwork for this week’s theme of marquetry I thought I might post a blog I did a while back detailing the different styles of cuttin...

2 Boulle Style

This style is named for one of the great masters, Andre-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) and it differs from double bevel style in several ways. In both ...

3 Classic or Piece by Piece

The Classic Style is the most difficult of the saw cut styles to master. It involves cutting each piece separately, from packets of veneer, each co...

4 Painting in Wood

The “Painting in Wood” style of marquetry cutting dates to early 17th century France and gets its name from the relationship of the typical subject...

5 Repeating Patterns

I was doing a piece by piece experiment recently with an eye to a new project I had in mind and thought it would make an appropriate addition to th...