Sofa-Bench
Mahogany stained wood with marquetry, edged and gilt carving, and silk damask.

Anonymous - Catalunya

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Marquetry okapi! I’d been avoiding cutting it into the background, but I finally did it today. #Marquetry #Woodworking #Okapi

My dad and I recently finished a collaboration on this little marquetry project.

I made the cat, and he made the background.

I started working on a marquetry cabinet back in March, and I recently finished it. The name of the piece is "Backyard Birds."

I documented the process of making the cabinet on the blog of my new-ish website, http://www.sashakopf.com (link in my bio).

#Marquetry #Woodworking #Cabinet #CabinetMaking

Photo Credit: David Ryan

I’m at the stage of my big #woodworking project where I spend lot of time waiting for glue to dry. So during my down time, I’m going to make a little box using this #marquetry image of a harnessed tiger moth.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a harnessed tiger moth in person, but I saw a picture of one online recently and thought it would look good made out of veneer.

When I took a photo of it, my phone not only identified it as an insect, but correctly identified the species!

I’ve been goofing around making wooden squiggles. I glued up the squiggles in the first two pictures today, and I’ll be able to sand them tomorrow. #Marquetry #Woodworking #Inlay

Was commissioned to make this veneer marquetry image of a Great Grey Owl recently.

Ended up being somewhat of a composite of several reference photos.

#marquetry #birds #woodworking #owl
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A little thread about making some birdseed veneer!

I'm starting a marquetry project that includes an image of a bird feeder. I decided to try making some veneer that would look like birdseed.

A follower asked me to post of pictures of how the cabinet that I made is constructed, so this will be a little thread about that. I wish I had taken more photographs along the way, but I’ll work with what I’ve got.

It was a banner day yesterday because (1) my open studio didn’t get snowed out again, and lots of people came, and (2) I discovered that the local co-op is selling Clearly Canadian sodas, which disappeared from my life some 20 years ago and for which I pined every single day.

Since there was so much snow last weekend, I’m having another open studio this weekend!

If you’re in or around #WesternMassachusetts and would like to see the woodshop and the things that my dad and I are working on, you’re welcome to drop by.

Date: Sunday, January 14
Time: 2:00-5:00
Address: 84 Union Street, Easthampton, MA

(If there’s more than an inch of snow this Sunday, I’ll try it again the following Sunday.)

I’m having an open studio on Sunday, January 7 to show off the cabinet that I made. If anyone in or around #WesternMassachusetts would like to see the woodshop and the things that my dad and I are working on, you’re welcome to drop by! Info is in the images and image descriptions.

This is the cabinet that I've been working on since May. I still have a few tweaks to make, but it was finished enough to get some Glamour Shots taken.

As soon as I started learning woodworking, I knew that I wanted to do a marquetry pangolin, and I'm really happy with the way it turned out.

Photos: John Polak Photography

I’m finally to the finishing stage of the cabinet that I’ve been working on, and I put the first coat of oil on the marquetry door.

As I was about to start putting oil on, I noticed that there were some spots in the top left corner where the glue hadn’t adhered properly, and some of the veneer wasn’t sticking to the MDF underneath. The reason I noticed was because I could hear a difference in sound as I ran my fingers over it.

It’s amazing, at least as a hearing person, how much of woodworking involves listening. Usually it’s listening to the machines - things like gauging whether blades are making a clean cut or knowing when to stop lowering the sander - but sometimes it’s listening to the wood itself, in a very literal way.

I was able to use an X-Acto knife to smoosh glue under the pieces of veneer that were coming up, so hopefully that problem is now fixed.

couple more marquetry birds from the latest batch

Western Yellow Wagtail all sanded, finished with tung oil, and headed out the door tomorrow for the artist members show at https://carnegiegallery.org

Pangolin Panel Progress: I still have more sanding to do, but the tape and glue are basically off the front of the panel, thanks to my new best friend the orbital sander.

Pangolin Panel Progress: On Thursday, I glued the marquetry to a piece of MDF (medium density fiberboard) and put it in the press. The first picture is the press. If you look closely, you can see George the Animal Steel benevolently watching over the press.

Yesterday, I spent five hours peeling veneer tape off the panel. I got most of it, but there’s still a lot of bits that I’ll have to sand off, as shown in the second picture. The newspaper that’s glued to the background veneer can’t be peeled off, but that comes off easily with sandpaper.

For the whole time that I’ve been working on this project, I’ve been looking at the reverse side of the image (the side that is now glued to the MDF). I’m still getting used to the pangolin facing left instead of right.