This year at Marc Adams was a full class, invigorated students and what a great atmosphere to make some excellent marquetry pieces, stretch the limits, and get into some dynamic veneering.  I did attempt my  8 min chessboard  (OK… so it was 12 min.)  and I did a demo marquetry table for the class that got auctioned off for 500.- to help support the R.Cliff Educational Foundation at the school. Everyone took home at least two projects, and were happy with this new found skill under their belt!  The MASW is always interesting with the diverse classes that are taught there, and a great opportunity for me to see other teachers teach their unique skills. It reminds me that we are all students at some level, and there is always more to learn. I hope to be back at MASW in  2019, after getting caught up with my 18 month backlog of projects I have left at home!

This 2015 marquetry class held in Santa Rosa CA was the third time I have given a seminar at Davids shop in this lovely northern CA town.  It was a full class of 10 students, and the range of work was impressive, as I have come to expect from the students that come to his school. This four-day class is a condensed version of the 5 and 6-day class, so the heat is usually on pretty high, to get all projects designed, cut, sand shaded, assembled and finished. Most students made two panels, and my favorite was the abstract cow, and the three wine barrels with the brass faucets with what appeared to be a gazillion parts, which actually got finished by the fourth day!  We also got to experiment a bit with pushing veneer to its limit, yet again.