Hello all,
My double desk build is nearing completion, but has been stalled by another project. My mother-in-law has a major birthday coming up, so priorities have shifted.
I started a veneer panel a couple of years ago and came across it the other day. I had completed nearly 3/4ths of the image. Thanks to uncharacteristically good marking and notes on the design and benign neglect, I also found the source to finish it off.
I'm using double bevel marquetry here on a scroll saw and most of the rest of the work is with hand tools. With double bevel marquetry, the image has to be built up and I tend to build from the outside-in (or in this case from the top to the bottom). An example may help this make sense (and Mr. Stevens book is a great resource if it doesn't).
Each piece is added to the background design and I cut with the background on top and the new piece on the bottom. The cuts are at a slight angle and, once cut, the new piece slides up and fills the saw kerf. Pieces are added sequentially such that each new piece either has a new border on the background that won't be cut again (i.e., the border is a 'show' border) or cuts into future waste area on the background (a 'waste border').
This can be seen in the photo below near the blue tape, where the light maple piece has a show border on top along the sycamore background. The new piece was cut larger than final size along the bottom to become the new background for the next interior piece. The shape as been transferred using velum and carbon paper.
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Here, the bottom of the light maple piece became the show border of the darker maple piece below (in this photo, the legs and dark maple piece are not fully inserted, creating a shadow).
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One cool trick from the Stevens book is shown below. By drilling at an angle greater than the saw blade, the access hole for the saw blade goes from the waste side of the line on the image and into the waste side of the new piece below. The result is no hole is visible when the pieces are inserted.
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Veneer tape keeps everything in place. The panel was then hot hide glued to a substrate, backed with a matching sycamore panel and into clamps (with paper to keep from sticking).
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Thanks all,
Chris
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