How Do You Use Marquetry To Make A Chess Board?
Marquetry is the art of design using pieces of wood veneer glued together. The pictures can be intricate, but the chess board is an easier design to make. A marquetry chess board can become a family heirloom to be admired for generations, and you can make one in an afternoon. Choose the veneer you want to make your chess board from. You need two colors for the board and a third for the wide darker frame border of the chess board. Select a silver as a stringer (thin border strip) to contrast with the dark border and an outer stringer of white. Cut four strips of dark veneer 1 3/4 by 14 inches. Cut five strips of light veneer 1 3/4 by 14 inches. Cut four 1/4 by 17 inch stringers of both silver and white and four 1 by 17 inch borders. Join the nine dark and light strips together, backside up. Start with the light color on the outside and alternate with the dark color. The group should end in a light color. Use small bits of masking tape on this side to temporarily hold the strips together
