11-02-2019 05:31 AM
by shipwright |
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My first student has just finished his level one interactive video course and it was a big success. He received over three hours of video instruction and sent me ten videos of his work for critique. We communicated on messenger several times a day. It really was just like he was here.
I actually think that it is a better course for the student than being here. When I have students in class I can be a little laid back with the instruction sessions because if I forget something, they are rig...
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12-29-2018 11:03 PM
by Dennis Zongker |
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Here is a Desk that I’m making, It’s called a Lion Desk. With marquetry panels. The front has the male, the two sides will have a baby cub on one side and a female lion on the other.
Here are some step pictures showing the packed method of marquetry.
Thank you for looking, and Happy New Year!!!
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09-29-2018 01:55 AM
by Patricelejeune |
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So with a bit of tardiness here is an “account” on cutting the marquetry panels our Treasure Box III
As you know, I now do my marquetry in LA with a reduced but sweet set up.
On a piece by piece project the drawing is paramount to the final quality of your marquetry. No change can be made afterwards so I usually work my drawing until Patrick and Kristen pry me away from it.
Once this first stage is complete. We usualy have a good idea of what wood will be used where b...
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09-16-2018 12:54 AM
by shipwright |
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I haven’t posted on this blog for a while because as the classes pass it’s really just more of the same but this fall’s classes have a little something different. Long time LJ buddy Peter Marcucci (woodbridge) has crossed the country to attend and is a star student. I’ve been looking forward to this for a few years now and we’re making the most of it.
Only two students for level one and three for level two next week so I have time to spend with them all. There is somethin...
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09-13-2018 11:23 PM
by Patricelejeune |
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One of the reason it has been difficult to keep this blog updated is that my life has slightly changed in the past months.
My wife is now manager of a 19th century french painting gallery in LA.For years she has been living between LA and San Diego for her research and work, we have to switch and I am now the traveling spouse.
For this reason one part of the workshop that I can easily bring with me is the marquetry workshop. I had my chevalet in my first apartment living room in France,...
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09-13-2018 10:43 PM
by Patricelejeune |
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I have been pretty busy working without much time for updating my blog.
Like many cabinet maker I have a special love affair with a particular piece of furniture. Couple of pieces in fact, but one of them is a coffer attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle at the J.P. Getty museum.
I always wanted to do a copy of it, I still will but we decided that our Treasure Box III was going to be inspired by it.
The original coffer is a “simple” box with a lid, but as we like, in our...
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02-14-2018 08:25 PM
by Patricelejeune |
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Remember TB I & TB II ?
Here is TB III
Well. As you can see it is not quite finished yet. But we have been really busy at the shop working on other project that I did not even take the time to post… But here we are, back on track.
Drawing is almost done, the 2 sides are finished and ready to be cut, top and front need to be verified and the back needs a bit more massaging, but it’s there.
We have taken this opportunity to clean up the veneer cellar with...
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11-26-2017 12:21 AM
by shipwright |
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All woodworkers know about and battle with the issue of colourfastness but in marquetry it is more than just a pest, it can absolutely ruin your work. All one needs do is look at the great marquetry created by the French masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, today mostly dull arrangements of subtly different shades of brown.
In an attempt to start to understand the factors at work in order to try to minimize their destruction, I am embarking on what I expect will become a se...
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09-08-2017 12:44 AM
by shipwright |
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There were lots of details to see to before the actual glue up could take place but at last it is done. I needed to get a preliminary shaping done on the corner transitions, install some tray rails, fit the hinge parts, and prefinish everything.Here are some pictures of the various processes.
Then, at last the glue-up was done and I could do some final shaping on the corner transitions, add the top trim, and get my first real look at what I had.
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08-27-2017 10:30 PM
by shipwright |
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I left off yesterday with a peek at the parquetry pieces being cut for the sides of the box. The guillotine I was using is a Q&D copy of a commercially available cutter that I built years ago and am finally using for the first time in a project.It worked perfectly and made short work of the many small pieces.
Cutting the Tulipwood strips, crisp and accurate.
Then the Ribbon Bloodwood diamond centres.
On to the assembly working from the centre out starting with some di...
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