Project Information
A member of my woodworkers guild is a highly accomplished Marquetry Artist.
He was kind enough to put on a class for us, and this is what I made.
Marquetry is a very beautiful way to express wood grain, pattern and color.
It was also very difficult for an old fumble fingers like me to manipulate all the small pieces into place. haha
It also takes some exacting scroll saw cutting.
I cut splines into the frame edges and inserted pieces of the veneer we used to make the pictures, to show how thin the material is that you work with.
I thought this was a cool way of showing that, and the contrast in color added a little something as well.
Both these pieces have five different species of wood and the shading on the flower and leaf edges is done by dipping each piece into hot sand to slightly scorch them.
The frames are made with tiger stripped maple I won in a contest and have wonderful color. And I added a Lexan frame face to protect the fragile pieces.
Finish was boiled linseed oil.
This was very fun and something I may get in to a little further.
Thanks for looking and have a great day.
He was kind enough to put on a class for us, and this is what I made.
Marquetry is a very beautiful way to express wood grain, pattern and color.
It was also very difficult for an old fumble fingers like me to manipulate all the small pieces into place. haha
It also takes some exacting scroll saw cutting.
I cut splines into the frame edges and inserted pieces of the veneer we used to make the pictures, to show how thin the material is that you work with.
I thought this was a cool way of showing that, and the contrast in color added a little something as well.
Both these pieces have five different species of wood and the shading on the flower and leaf edges is done by dipping each piece into hot sand to slightly scorch them.
The frames are made with tiger stripped maple I won in a contest and have wonderful color. And I added a Lexan frame face to protect the fragile pieces.
Finish was boiled linseed oil.
This was very fun and something I may get in to a little further.
Thanks for looking and have a great day.