Copper is great fun and produces spectacular results but there is also a place for more subtle styles. The effects from carefully selected wood veneers arranged in simple geometric patterns can also be spectacular.
Patterns with simple shapes like squares and rhombuses can be used fairly easily by gluing the shapes into rows, cutting strips, and then offsetting those. For more complex patterns this is not possible and the challenge is cutting the shapes sufficiently accurately that cumulative errors don’t build up over the repetition of the pattern – which they do very quickly!
This “simple” basket weave pattern required the creation of a couple of simple pattern jigs to ensure the rectangles were precisely the same with no gaps between.
