hobby #220

Marquetry

Building pictures and patterns from thin wood veneers — cutting shapes with a scalpel or fretsaw and assembling them like a jigsaw, using natural grain, colour, and hot-sand shading to create images and geometric inlay before gluing the whole sheet down and finishing it.

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Marquetry

A card table in a shop window ambushed me, and now I own veneers thin enough to read a newspaper through and a plan to burn wood in hot sand on purpose.

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