What a great classroom! It not only had table, tools and instructor, but there were instructor aides as well. The marquetry class was held during a regular meeting of the Lakeland Chapter of the American Marquetry society. They met (where else?) in Swede’s garage in order to introduce some NS Scrollers to the art of marquetry. The society members made themselves available to help individual students. Some were demonstrating by working actually on their own projects during the 2 hour class. Marquetry, is also sometimes called intarsia. It is the art and craft of producing pictures and decorative designs by the skilful use of the grain, figure and colour of thin veneers of wood and other materials. The class members used a tool called a Deep Throat Fret Saw on home-made marquetry sawing tables. The veneer is cut at a 10 o - 12o angle to provide a better fit. So what can you do in two hours? Make a cursory leaf, just to get the concept. Jim Dalton, trainer, normally spends at least eight hours with students to teach beginning marquetry. As usual, our Scrollers were seriously engaged in their project. Lakeland Chapter Ron Bowman, President Saint Paul, Minnesota Tel:(651) 699-0563 * Meets the third Saturday of each month at the Rockler Store in Minneapolis, MN Marquetry: Scott Murphy – student Swede – student Wes Hanson Knowledgeable helper Craig Lutz – student Archie Trott – student John Mitchell – doing Juneau Alaska Scene John Snell – doing family pic Jim Dalton - teacher How to cut sharp angles: cut to point & chisel hole in waste space. Why they use hand saws? To make a leaf with stem & veins: cut overlapping holes. Three big pieces instead of 3 little pieces. Easier to fit. Table at 10-120 Uses white glue – it’s water-soluble and softens the piece to fit better & dries clear instead of yellow. Use fingernail slide up and down blade to determine direction of teeth. (teeth point down) blades .02 - .04 tape 2 contrasting pieces of veneer together draw leaf on light veneer poke hole with tiny drill bit to start put blade through hole cut counter-clockwise cut lines on both sides of stem – between stem & outline of leaf insert dark into light & cut again on lines between stem & outline & cut out stem. Hole is left for seeing the direction of the grain on third piece of veneer. Tape third piece of veneer (lighter than stem) & cut outline of the leaf??? uses sign makers application tape & blue painters tape |