Archive for 'Furniture Making' Category
The Marquetry Donkey (Five of Five)
14 March 2008 A description of how a marquetry donkey is made and used goes beyond the scope of these blogs, but I did want to give some background into the methods used by those like Craig Thibodeau, who have decided to pursue the art of marquetry.
The problem, as stated in the previous blog, is that in [...]
Seamless Cuts (Four of Five)
13 March 2008One of the hardest things to do in woodworking is to join two pieces of wood together without a glue line. The glue line is just that, a line of glue made visible because of a gap between the two pieces of wood. It’s because saw cuts often produce tiny ridges that tend to keep [...]
A Thousand Parts (Three of Five)
12 March 2008Have you ever seen an elaborate mosaic? One of those pieces of art on a wall somewhere, perhaps in a church, made of hundreds of bits of tile, clipped into tiny squares and painstakingly arranged into a pattern that, at a distance, can be seen to be a picture of something or other. It [...]