There’s plenty for you to enjoy and learn from in this Autumn edition of the Marquetarian.
There are loads for you to check out in this Autumn edition of The Marquetarian. We have yet another really packed magazine here that we are sure you are going to enjoy.
For starters there’s a really good article about how to make a cheap vacuum press from easily obtained components. In fact, what we are doing is adapting a piece of equipment meant for an entirely different job into a very useful press for pressing duties for the benefit of we marquetarians. This is a very useful piece of equipment I can tell you.
Our 2025 International Marquetry Exhibition was held back in the early days of June this year. Steve, our professional photographer, and our editor both took plenty of photos of the exhibits and the layout of the exhibition, and we are happy to report that plenty of those photos can be found in this autumn edition of The Marquetarian.
Although many of us enjoy the making of a marquetry picture or piece, very few find the finishing part of the process to be anywhere near as enjoyable. This is where our next article comes in handy. It explains how to take the difficulties away from the tedious flattening and varnishing procedures. It also has a useful list of recommended finishing supplies to help you along.
Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held recently, and the full minutes of the meeting are printed in this autumn edition. These days we are, or have been, holding the AGM online via Zoom. This allows for our distant members located vast distances from the AGM venue to attend in real time. We now even have a good number of our membership from around the world able to join in the AGM and put their own points of view forward. The only restriction for them is that the AGM is conducted in English, but as most of them are English speaking, it doesn’t present a problem.
Due to many requests, we are republishing some of Andrew Smith’s ‘Random Jotting’ series which were originally available some decades ago – around the 1970s time. Andrew’s “jottings” were very popular in their day and were eagerly read and looked forward to, by all of our membership of the day. Our editorial team have brought those original articles up to date, and we hope that today’s readers will relish these “wisdoms of marquetry guidance” as much as those readers of old.
Vic’s tips are well worth checking out. Vic’s years of marquetry experience and knowledge are put into words and text to help us less knowledgeable marquetry artists achieve better results from our art and craft of marquetry. This is all in very readable form without too much technical chat for us lesser marquetry mortals!
Our Facebook page is doing well. We are getting copious new members of our Facebook fraternity joining that element of our growing influence every day. We just need to convert as many of them as possible to becoming Marquetry Society members proper as we can. But we are working on that.
And don’t miss checking out many of the exhibits from this year’s International Marquetry Exhibition. There’s plenty of beautiful marquetry there for you to enjoy – we think you will like it very much.
Happily, we have found an entire half page of space (carefully done for a well filled autumn 292nd edition) of our very useful identification chart of veneers. These are all over 65 years of age and show you how well veneers can retain their colour when kept away from the bleaching effect of sunlight. These veneers are all genuine examples taken from veneers with odd characteristics in our veneer reference library and they are all featured in accurate colours. And don’t miss the article about making your own veneer collection and how to store it correctly. Each veneer example featured is taken from accurate scans of the genuine veneers and carefully colour balanced against the actual veneer itself in order to ensure it matches both the printed and true veneer as far as modern technology will allow us.
But, and then again, don't forget our regular 'Readers Letters' 'Chairman's Chatter' 'Independents Corner' and much, much more.
So, as is always the case, we have yet another excellent issue for your perusal!.
