North Bennet Street School Alum; Furniture Institute of Massachusetts Alum; Instructor at Lexington Arts Society; Asst. Instructor at Center for Furniture Craftsmanship; 2019 AWFS FreshWood Student Competition Best of Show; US Navy Veteran ~~ Happy to share everything I know with anyone willing to learn, knowledge in a vacuum serves no purpose. My specialty is in 18th century American Furniture, but I also do everything from cabinets, small woodwork items, and millwork.
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Nautical Themed Marquety Table
You aren't far off! It was quite a process on this one. Because of the holly and ebony I really couldn't sand as the ebony dust would get into the holly and
it would make a mess. So the whole thing was planed where I could, but mostly scraped. I could plane down most of the stringing to get it flush, then a sharp card scraper for the surface prep. I finished right off the scraper.
@Timmy2Hands said:Nautical Themed Marquety Table
I started by using a classic DIY scratch stock, which is just a L shaped piece of wood sawn through it's thickness to hold a piece of bandsaw blade. The blade is filed to look like a "V" the width of the string |\/| like that. But then someone brought in the Veritas stringing tool and I was sold, that thing is fantastic for scratching in the groove for the string. The curved parts of the strings are soaked in water then bent around a hot copper pipe, like a quick steam bend.
@WoodGate said:Nautical Themed Marquety Table
Thank you! It really just started as just a study but took on a life of its own!
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