The Craft of Veneering [Paperback]

The Craft of Veneeringstarts with a simple panel made from a single piece of veneer and progresses through more complex veneer assemblieslike 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.

• 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.

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 veneerfrom how it's made, why to use it, how to use it, and how to combine various techniques to create exciting new workis explained and lavishly illustrated.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction to veneer and the tools needed to work with it
2. Basic veneer matches
3. Project 1: Creating a book-matched panel for a cabinet door
4. Project 2: Creating a four-way matched box top in burl in the vacuum bag
5. Project 3: A radial matched tabletop
6. Project 4: Something curved with veneer
7. Project 5: Time for decoration (parquetry and marquetry)
Appendix

• Complete Guide. Other books on the topic of veneering are either outdated or limited in scope.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 witl32