Bookcase #6: Done

Tremendous job and a great build! I was wondering how you did the marquetry?? Ty

-- AJ

Tremendous job and a great build! I was wondering how you did the marquetry?? Ty

- AJ1104

I purposefully used just straight lines, so they could be cut with a router. You start with the part that will be intersected the most, so that future cuts cut trough the part leaving a perfect edge. In this case it was the center vertical line. Cut, square up the ends, fit the inlay and install. Then repeat. The only part that needed a perfect fit was the padauk on one side as all other sides would be cut with the router putting in the subsequent parts. Here is an image of the padauk going in, showing the rough edges that would be cleaned up with the next part.

You can see the edges that will be cleaned up with future cuts. So you work you way out from most crossed part to least and when you cut and lay the last one, you should be left will all tight joints.

In the image, the “fence” is positioned from the line to be cut by the distance of the outer edge of the bit to the edge of the router base, getting ready to cut a crossing line that will clean up one edge of the padauk.

That finish is amazing! The close up of the shelves you can really tell what you meant by “the grain glitters gold”. Is the center support shelf using through dowels with the same wood as the inlay?

That finish is amazing! The close up of the shelves you can really tell what you meant by “the grain glitters gold”. Is the center support shelf using through dowels with the same wood as the inlay?

- sansoo22

The fixed shelf is doweled in, but not with Wenge as that is (IMHO) a nasty nasty wood for grain (very course and twisty, prone to splitting). The dowels are Walnut from a very straight grained section of wood.