String inlaid box #6: Marquetry fail.
First, a note on my new favorite tool… a Chisel point brad awl! Where has this been all my life? This makes installing hinges crazy easy. You need one too. Ok, now back to the marquetry for the top of the box. 1. Selected veneers 2. Draw my pattern, which I tried to copy from a picture in Pierre’s book. 3. Glue newsprint to the fronts of all my sheets 4. Press in air pump vac, with sheets of newspaper in between 5. Make packet Picture of my birdsmouth 6. Use fret saw to saw out the individual pieces of the pattern. 7. Reassemble and tape the face side (backside) The next step would be to use mastic to fill the gaps, and then glue it to a sub. ...
