Creeker’s Past Weeks Accomplishments

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I’m taking a class in Veneering and Marquetry at the local community college and we have a project assignment due each week. Here’s assignment #9, a 10x10 inch checkerboard. Mine has maple and ebony squares one inch on a side, 0.022” thick, with a bubinga border. (At least I think it’s bubinga. I ordered a 15 lb box of assorted off-cuts and leftovers from a veneer supplier and none of the woods are identified.) The finish is shellac applied with the French polishing technique. I’m getting the hang of this!

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Nicely done Mark!

[Cameron Wood]

This is more of this weeks accomplishments, but it will be last week soon...

I've worked on this property since the '80s, and built the garage/guest house in 1990. A giant bay tree just fell, leading to the discovery of a rotted 8X8 post supporting the back porch.

The landscape crew is going to fix it, along with the fences etc. that the tree took out, but I am supplying a piece of stock for the repair. Dry 8X8 redwood is not that easy to come by. I was just given a 6X12 beam that came from a bridge, so I used some of that, cutting and re-gluing to get the dimension.

The clients habitually over-water the landscaping, so things stay soggy- I've repaired other stuff there.

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