Hello all,
For the past several years, I've been exploring marquetry with shop cut veneers. A project that has been on my bucket list has been to make a jewelry box for my mom, who's totem animal is the great blue heron. Life and work and kids and years go by, and recently it became time to just make sure it got done.
The first step in my process is to design the top. One of the reasons I really enjoy marquetry is because it has to be quite restrained in both composition, level of detail and (especially) palette. In other words, I don't think just any design can be executed in marquetry successfully. Then again there is some work that is the exception to all rules:
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http://www.staffordshiremarquetry.or...john-jeggo.php
Now that we've bowed to the master, we can humbly proceed...