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This entry is a little on the philosophical side. It is about expectation and reality (one of which is quite easy to achieve). I guess that each of...

I put a lot of thought into what the first project would be for my fine sawn veneer before I decided on this particular idea. I would have to say t...

It seems like only yesterday that I built my first chevalet from a few photos on the internet and began to try to figure out how to use it. Well it...

As I get older my eyes seem to require more and more light to see fine detail. That is a problem when cutting on the chevalet, especially when cutt...

I can heave a sigh of relief now. The client just came and picked up the tables this afternoon and she loved them. Like all of us, I am never reall...

I didn’t take any photos of the ebonizing process originally, but since several people expressed an interest I made a little video today. It shows ...

Last fall I entered my “Music” table in the Sidney Fine Arts Show on Vancouver Island and while it didn’t sell, it did attract a lot of attention. ...

I was doing a piece by piece experiment recently with an eye to a new project I had in mind and thought it would make an appropriate addition to th...

The “Painting in Wood” style of marquetry cutting dates to early 17th century France and gets its name from the relationship of the typical subject...

The Classic Style is the most difficult of the saw cut styles to master. It involves cutting each piece separately, from packets of veneer, each co...

This style is named for one of the great masters, Andre-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) and it differs from double bevel style in several ways. In both ...

To lay some groundwork for this week’s theme of marquetry I thought I might post a blog I did a while back detailing the different styles of cuttin...