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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #2: Two Very Helpful Tools For Marquetry And Other...

I won’t pretend that I can teach you marquetry guys anything, but I would like to share a couple of ways that might take some of the pain out of making patterns for your marquetry work, your scrolling...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #3: Sailing Upwind

I took a few photos to show you what I was up to with my latest experiment. Unfortunately it didn’t work out so well, but adventures wouldn’t be adventures if everything went without a hitch, so I...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #4: Sailing Downwind

TODAYS WORKToday was better. I bandsawed a background piece about 3/8” thick and a thinner piece 1/32” thick to be cut with the background as a pattern to mark the pieces to be cut and inserted into...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #5: Third Time Lucky

FUILL DISCLOSUREYesterday’s work turned out better than my first try. What I didn’t say in yesterday’s blog was that I accidentally attached my pattern, not to the background piece as I should have...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #6: Progress

IT WAS EASIER TODAYThe work went well today. I have cut and glued in most of the body pieces except for the tail and two arms. I had cut the details around the eyebrows yesterday, but I realized how...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #7: Tried Something New Today

PROBLEM TO SOLVEI’ve been trying to figure out how I was going to do the belly of the dragon. I wanted it to look pretty much like the pattern, but didn’t know how to do the outlining of each belly...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #8: My Dragon Marquetry Project As Seen From Australia

I’ve gotten so many nice compliments for the ‘colorful’ etc. work on my dragon project that I’ve begun to suspect that many think I have done a lot more on it than I actually have, so this short blog...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #9: THE GOOD AND THE BAD

TODAYS DRAMATIC EPISODEI started out the day in the shop full of optimism. The first thing I did was to tape a of piece poster board paper to the back of my main workpiece. Then I started cutting out...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #10: Progress Update

I was hoping to get a lot done today, but I was called on to provide transport. That is one of my two main functions. The other is heavy lifting. My wife takes care of all the intellectual stuff, like...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #11: Slow But Steady Progress and Learning

ADVENTURE SUMMARYAgainst all good sense and the normal practice of creating marquetry with a wide range of different ultra thin wood veneers, I am attempting to do marquetry with thicker materials,...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #12: Progress Update

WHAT I DID TODAYI managed to get more of the black filled in. Some of the fingers, the whiskers and a few other African Blackwood infills. I also put in the middle leg with Ash. The whole project...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #13: Slowly But Surely

WORK DONE SINCE LAST POSTThe upper and lower belly sections are done (excepting remedial work), the claws have been added together with some other small bits and pieces here and there, The eyebrows are...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #14: Good progress today

TODAYS WORKThe yellow was added to the whiskers, eyebrows and legs. I still have some yellow to do on some of the toes.The tongue is also inserted, but not quite finished. The top photo is from my last...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #15: Semi Final

CURRENT STATUSI have just about blogged this thing to death and I’m still not finished, but nearly so. WHAT’S NEXT?I still have to do the teeth, and I plan to do something with the tail. It is too drab...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #16: Went Boulleing Today (again)

NO DRAGON TODAY, HOORAY! I have ordered some veneers, both burls and some regulars. I also ordered a nice little veneer saw which I learned how to sharpen from Joewoodworker site at:...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #17: Almost finished

Here is the latest rendition of my dragon marquetry and the original art I took the motif from. I know it can’t compare to the original. Nevertheless I hope I have done it justice. I don’t know the...

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WOODWORKING ON A GRAND SCALE #1: Worth looking at

I ran across this article in the Daily Mail UK and I thought a lot of woodworkers would appreciate seeing this extraordinary work. I’m not thinking so much about the wood materials or the techniques,...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #18: HOW TO MAKE COLOR COPIES WITH YOUR BANDSAW

Welcome to my shop. Yes, today I will show you how to make color copies with your bandsaw. 1. Just take what you want copied and place into your bandsaw blade like this. 2. Now push it slowly through...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #19: LITTLE STEP, BIG BREAKTHROUGH

The problemOne thing that has been bothering me about starting up with marquetry using thin veneers which are about 1/32” thick, is being able to control my scroll sawing with a single thickness of...

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MY MARQUETRY ADVENTURES #20: Marquetry tools, veneers and supply purchases

I thought it might be interesting for those thinking about taking up marquetry work to get an idea of what they might need and I wanted to show my marquetry advisory board what I bought in case they...

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