Product Description
The Craft of Veneering is the definitive guide to veneering written by a professional furniture maker who specializes in veneering and decorative inlay. This is the first book in over a generation that completely explains the veneering process in light of changes in technology over the last 30 years.
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 different methods is provided.
Introduces the novice or professional woodworker to a range of veneering techniques from simple to complex that can be used to produce stunning patterns that would be impossible to achieve with solid wood
Outlines all the tools and techniques you'll need to work with veneer (including vacuum bagging and using clamps and cauls)
Includes chapters on the fascinating arts of marquetry and parquetry
An illustrated appendix presents enlarged photos of 37 species of wood veneer
Authoritative. Other books on the topic of veneering are either outdated or limited in scope. This is the definitive guide that presents all the available veneering techniques and backs them up with a full range of projects from applying veneer to a small, flat jewelry box top to veneering the curved doors of a large cabinet decorated with floral marquetry.
Author credentials. Craig Thibodeau is a professional furniture maker who specializes in veneering and decorative inlay.
Inspiration. Includes galleries of work by the author and other makers to showcase the skills explained in the text.
Audience. Woodworkers, from novice to professional.
Author Bio
Craig Thibodeau has been a professional furniture maker specializing in veneering and decorative inlay for the past 17 years and has won numerous awards for his furniture. His how-to articles have been published in Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworking, Australian Wood Review, and Good Woodworking magazines and his work has been featured in a variety of publications over the years.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Asa Christiana
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Veneer
Chapter 2: Working with Veneer
Chapter 3: Substrates, Glues, and Presses
Chapter 4: Creating Your First Veneered Panels
Chapter 5: A Four-Way Matched Box Top in Burl Veneer
Chapter 6: A Radial-Matched Tabletop
Chapter 7: Marquetry
Chapter 8: Parquetry
Chapter 9: Curved Veneerwork and Bent Laminations
Chapter 10: Edging and Crossbanding
Appendix: The Many Species of Veneer
Glossary
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