Originally Posted by
Mike King
You don’t need a scroll saw, you can use a birdsmouth bench and a fret saw or a knife. I just took a class with Jim MacDonald and learned the fret saw method. Personally, I use a hand operated scroll saw I built from brake tubing, a drawer slide, and bits of bolts and nuts. If you are on the Front Range of Colorado, our guild, the Rocky Mountain Marquetry Guild, offers a free workshop where we offer instruction, a hand powered scroll saw, veneer, coffee, and doughnuts on the first and third saturday morning each month.
if you aren’t able to make it to our workshop, there are a couple of books that can help. Silas Kopf’s “A Marquetry Odyssey” is an incredible book that delves into the history of marquetry dating back to 3000bc as well as his own pieces. There’s a bit of detail on technique as well. Craig Thibodeau “The Craft of Veneering” has a decent chapter on marquetry but is an excellent reference on veneering in general. There a book to teach both the double bevel and the window method called “Marquetry Course” by Jack Metcalfe and John Apps. And other textts, such as the by Pierre Raymond, who was probably the most influential educator in marquetry of the past half century.