Museum of Making
Silk Mill Lane off Full Street
Derby
DE1 3AF
About this course:
Steve Smith – Museum of Making Workshop Manager – worked for many years as a cabinet maker using a variety of veneers and associated processes to create both traditional and contemporary furniture; classical and unorthodox pieces purposefully designed using dark and light veneers.
On this weekend course – taking Charles Hayward’s classic Practical Veneering (1949) as his starting point – he will take participants through a variety of orthodox veneering techniques to hand-veneer a small plywood box.
Over the two-days Steve will introduce and identify a wide variety of European and non-European wood veneers which students can select from and integrate into their bespoke designs for embellishing the supplied plain box. The course will also show how students can make some rudimentary hand tools associated with small-scale veneering.
Students will learn material identification (wood veneer), correct grain direction selection, how to design and construct geometric veneer patterns, veneer cutting and taping, use of templates, crossbanding, additional use of boxwood lines and homemade inlays, and the various historical and commercial ways of laying veneers permanently onto ground works.
