Ken Horner

Basic Marquetry and Beyond: Expert Techniques for Crafting Beautiful Images with Veneer and Inlay Ken Horner

Description for Sales People: Key Selling Points - Marquetry allows any crafter or woodworker to embellish a project with rich, expensive woods at a fraction of the cost. - Minimal tools and materials are required, allowing anyone with small spaces and limited resources to learn the craft. - Marquetry is very safe no high speed and dangerous power tools making it ideal for young children. - The ideal crossover project that will attract female crafters to try their hand at woodworking. - Marquetry has been consistently covered in recent issues of all the major woodworking publications; however, even though a popular subject, the most recent marquetry/veneer book was published in 2008."Publisher Marketing: While it s been around for centuries, the craft of marquetry the use of veneers and inlay to embellish a woodworking project or to create a beautiful image -- is as popular and relevant as ever. During today s tighter economic and environmentally conscious times, veneers offer a rich, but inexpensive, option for creating stunning works while preserving precious forests. Veneer is also extremely easy to work with and requires nothing more than a simple scroll or hand-held fret saw. Best of all, working with marquetry is extremely safe and requires no dedicated workshop; a garage, kitchen, or any other small space works fine. Basic Marquetry and Beyond is for the enthusiastic woodworker, crafter, or maker who is ready to explore this fascinating process. With over twenty projects and the expert guidance of two of today s top marquetry experts, Ken Horner and David Pike, Basic Marquetry and Beyond provides everything needed to master veneer and inlays while designing pictures and making projects such as boxes, coasters, platters, and bowls truly beautiful and unique. With over 250 photos, full-size patterns, and straight-forward instructions, Basic Marquetry and Beyond takes the reader step-by-step through each project rendering what might appear complicated as a very simple task. Most important, Basic Marquetry and Beyond makes understanding patterns easy while taking all the guesswork out of the selecting veneers. By the end of Basic Marquetry and Beyond, any beginner will feel like a seasoned pro while the advanced crowd will now doubt discover new ideas and techniques for their marquetry skill-set. Basic Marquetry and Beyond is a must-have reference for all woodworkers, crafters, and makers who want to create original art or inexpensively and beautifully embellish their finished projects."

Contributor Bio:  Horner, Ken Ken Horner has been a marquetry expert since 1961. Still active in the craft, he teaches classes to beginners at his home shop in Morgan Hill, CA and is the president of the American Marquetry Society. Ken also is the author of three very successful wood working books: Woodworkers' Essential Facts, Formulas & Short-Cuts, More Woodworkers' Essentials and the Essential Guide to the Steel Square .