With this complete resource from professional furniture-maker and veneer specialist Jonathan Benson, you'll learn how to re-create the beauty of exotic wood with veneer and in-lays. A series of step-by-step exercises will take you through all the techniques and culminate in four beautiful finished pieces: a dining room table, a wall mirror with shelf, a marquetry picture, and a parquetry design. Also included is a complete troubleshooting section for repairs and problems.

In 23 comprehensive articles from Fine Woodworking magazine, woodworkers get the best technical advice available. From the fundamentals of veneering, including how to saw your own veneer, to inlaying with rare woods and other materials, this collection covers traditional and contemporary methods, and more.

Requiring no expensive machinery, veneering offers woodworkers tremendous opportunities for creativityand for using woods that may be rare, expensive, or structurally weak in their solid form.

Wood veneer offers a wide range of artistic and creative freedom; the varied figures, colored grains, and shimmering textures of veneers, especially burls, offer an aesthetic not found in any other natural material. Scott Grove, award-winning artist and self-taught woodworker, takes you on a journey of working with veneer and shares his hands-on experience with milling, flattening, various cutting and seaming methods, traditional and non-traditional layout patterns, glues, pressing, and repairing. A special section dedicated to Grove's pioneered techniques, wavy contour seam and spiral match, is also included. Traditional and alternative techniques are reviewed with comparison examples. Step-by-step instructions are beautifully illustrated with photographs and renderings along with easy to understand explanations. Thirty years of experience, tips, tricks, and "what to look for" suggestions are sprinkled throughout this must-have book for intermediate to advanced woodworkers.

Explains how veneer is manufactured and how to lay it using simple equipment, and demonstrates the methods of marquetry, discussing in particular saws for cutting intricate details

Inlay is a wonderful way to create flowers, scenes, figures, and other intricate and colorful designs on wood objects--and a great opportunity to work with small quantities of rare and costly woods (also precious metals, leather, mother-of-pearl, and other materials). Today, since veneers and marquetry have come to substitute for inlay, this book helps to carry on the tradition of an almost forgotten art, and shows modern craftspeople how to use it to make plain objects special. Through detailed instructions, diagrams, and photographs, every step in the inlay process unfolds, including a special section on finishing. The spectacular projects feature everything from a pretty floral tray to Christmas ornaments, from a bookstand to a set of nested bowls--even jewelry!

Exquisite designs, exotic woods, and skills anyone can master! With marquetry (attaching a design to a wood surface), or inlay (inserting small pieces of wood into the grain) even the simplest objects can become artistic and sophisticated pieces. Here's the best, most beautifully illustrated guide for learning a wonderful variety of woodworking techniques and achieving high-quality results. From corner banding and stringing to irregular shapes, circular motifs, rosettes, and purfling, all the processes are broken down and shown in crisp photos, accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions. Best of all, even the beginner can succeed in doing excellent work by following the directions for using either hand or machine tools. Here's the perfect chance to use rich looking, expensive woods, in small, affordable amounts, on projects such as a Box Lid, Writing Desktop, Violin, or Coffee Table.

This book offers extensive coverage of the craft including: selection, cutting, matching and care of veneers, adhesives, preparation work, the use of tools, presses and cauls, laying the veneers, inlaying, edging and lipping, oyster-veneering, parquetry and marquetry, mosaic work. It also covers repair and restoration methods, working with difficult veneers and burrs, all aspects of groundwork and wood bending and shaped work.

This course on the art of marquetry provides a complete introduction to the craft. The reader will learn how to use tools and materials by carrying out basic exercises aimed at developing techniques. Instructions on the ten designs considered to be the classical marquetry standards are included.

"Veneer can be incorporated in a variety of ways into furniture construction and other woodworking projects and encompasses a whole range of technical complexity. Everything about using veneer--from how it's made, why to use it, how to use it, and how to combine various techniques to create exciting new work--is explained and lavishly illustrated. The Craft of Veneering starts with a simple panel made from a single piece of veneer and progresses through more complex veneer assemblies like bookmatching, bent laminations, and veneering curved panels, edging, and crossbanding. At each step, all the information needed to complete the included sample projects using each of the difference methods is provided." --