Marquetry and Veneer

by FINE WOODWORKING EDITORS

• ISBN13: 9780918804747
• ISBN10: 0918804744
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1987-03-01
• Publisher: Taunton

Summary

Beautiful wood is precious and has to be used sparingly. Hence the art of veneering, in which rare woods are sliced or sawn into thin leaves and then glued onto a substructure of more common material. The allied art of marquetry consists of making pictures - often to adorn elegant, veneered furniture - from a palette of colorful wood veneers. In this collection of 38 articles from Fine Woodworking magazine, skilled craftsmen explain how veneer is manufactured and how you can saw your own. They show you how to lay it using simple equipment and how to design furniture based on veneer panels. And they demonstrate the methods of marquetry, paying particular attention to shop-built saws for cutting the most intricate details. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Veneer	p. 2
Knife Checks in Veneer	p. 4
Bandsaw Your Own Veneer	p. 7
Veneering	p. 10
Getting on the Good Side of Veneer	p. 13
Laying Veneer	p. 14
Bench-Pressing Veneer	p. 18
Inventing Marquetry	p. 19
Designing with Veneers	p. 20
Matchmaking	p. 24
Hammer Veneering	p. 25
Tips on Veneering	p. 28
Oyster-Shell Veneering	p. 30
Patch-Pad Cutting	p. 32
Marquetry Cutting	p. 34
Marquetry with Flexible Veneers	p. 38
Cutting Corners	p. 39
Marquetry on Furniture	p. 41
Finishing Marquetry	p. 46
Patchwork Marquetry	p. 48
Jigs Speed Veneer-Cutting	p. 50
Marquetry Mystery	p. 51
Geometric Marquetry	p. 54
An Eye on Marquetry in 1983	p. 55
Winners from the 1983 British Marquetry Show	p. 59
Marquetry in 1975	p. 60
Perspective in Marquetry	p. 66
Basic Rules of Perspective	p. 69
How Inlay Is Made	p. 70
Routing for Inlays	p. 74
Improving the Fretsaw	p. 76
Motor Makes Fretsawing Fly	p. 77
Inlaying Mother-of-Pearl	p. 78
Sources of Supply for Mother-of-Pearl and Abalone	p. 78
Inlaid Lap Desk	p. 80
A Jigsaw for Cutting Delicate Stock	p. 81
Laying Plastic Laminates	p. 84
Tricks, Tips, Cores and New Products	p. 86
Index	p. 88
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