Mike40

Yesterday the basket side blanks were prepared. Today was used to prepare the materials for the bottoms, the top rims and the bottom wrap around fe...

I have made a few of these baskets through the years and they have been very popular with friends and family members. In fact some who got one bask...

The veneer press worked perfectly for me using the hot hide glue. I brushed glue on the picture back and the substrate and rubbed it in with circul...

You might be wondering why there hasn’t been a post on this blog for some time. I have just been occupied with, you guessed it, garden work and get...

I still have 2 or 3 spaces to fill on the tree and some on the hand, plus the work on the holes from the packet nails. Besides that, many details h...

Today was mainly devoted to repair work. I had a lot of bad cuts due to the pattern coming loose (my fault). Repair method I found that the easiest...

Having the same problems today with the pattern and I messed up a lot. On the positive side I will learn a lot about how to do repairs as there wil...

My cutting didn’t go so well today. I experienced the same problem with the pattern lifting off the packet as I cut. I finally figured out that it ...

I didn’t get much done today on my wizard marquetry, but what I did do maybe brings up an interesting topic, sand shading. A disclaimer here as I h...

After getting the packet ready for sawing I put clear packing tape on the top and bottom, partly to lubricate the blade and more importantly to giv...

I finally got all my veneer patches placed, at least those that would be cut this time. Here they are finished. The next job was to tape the layers...

WARNING  An important part of this marquetry, but no woodworking involved. Since I am attempting to take you on my complete novice journey wit...