Alan Morrison
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Doodling on the scroll saw. Mahogany and Maple on a Sirocco from Beaufort Ink.
Mal, he cuts out the pieces with a GOOD scrollsaw , then glues each piece back in place with veneer between the pieces . Looks great ....Good job !!! There are many designs that can be done the same way.Nice work, Alan !!!
How did you do those ? . Are they inlays ?
Start with a square piece of wood blank 1 " x 1 " x 5 " long, then cut out with a scrollsaw or bandsaw ) each piece to any shape ( this case it was somewhat oval ). then glue the SAME piece back into the cutout space . but include veneer which will bend to shape , between the two pieces , like a sandwich. Do this four times on each of the flat surfaces of the blank, then turn the square into a dowel shape. You can also use two different contrasting woods and interchange the cutout pieces. Hope this helps.@wood128 @alanemorrison
Joe, thanks for trying to explain, but you ought to know how dense I am !!! . . . I don't get it !!
The surface seems to be perfectly smooth .... but that is not what I would expect, if, as you say, ....
he "glues each piece back in place with veneer between the pieces ". . This would form layers, if you actually mean "between".
The two layers on top of each other would build up to form a stepped surface.
Oh ..... maybe I do get it .....
Does he cut two layers of wood at the same time ?
Then he discards the pieces of one type of wood leaving voids ?
And then he uses the matching shapes from the other type of wood to fill the voids in the first type of wood ?
That might be what you mean .....
Wood128 said it perfectly.Nice work, Alan !!!
How did you do those ? . Are they inlays ?