Product Overview
Full-color photographs and detailed instructions guide you through everything you need to know, from tools and materials to cutting veneer to techniques such as the window method, fretsawing, sandshading, harewood, penwork and making fine lines.
Product Details
Tutorial projects enable you to practice your skills on a number of designs, such as a convex corner fan, rose, shell, chessboard, and chevron. Four projects include a tray, pier table, jewelry box, and fire screen.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
- Tools and equipment, materials, techniques
Chapter Two
- Historical background, assembling fans by template method, window method, fretsaw method, parquetry
Chapter Three
- Mounting, two stage pressing, bordering styles
Chapter Four
- Cleaning, sanding, finishing
Chapter Five
- Projects - Oval gallery table, Pier table, Jewelery box, Fire screen
Chapter Six
- Furniture makers gallery
- Appendix
- Templates for designs in chapter 2
- Drawings for designs in chapter 5
- Glossary
