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“Veneer, Marquetry and Furniture Design” This Weekend in San Diego

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I’ll be at the San Diego School School for Creative and Performing Arts to address the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association this weekend, September 16-17-18,  2011. Part of the event is free and open to the public, so I’d like to invite you to join me on Friday evening from 7-9pm when I’ll lecture about “Intuitive Design”. The San Diego School for Creative &

Performing Arts is at 2425 Dusk Drive, San Diego, CA  92139.

Here are some inspirational notes on recognizing and honoring your Intuition:

• Honor and Respect your flashes and don’t label any as silly or coincidental.

      • Brevity and simplicity—Express your ideas from the intuitive mind briefly in a line or two.  Considerable talking or drawing belongs to the logical mind.

      • Symbol, picture, and imagery—the intuitive mind will turn on the images inside your head, or a sensation in the body. Can you the taste how the picture sounds?

      • Suspend assumptions—Use intuitive input as naively as possible without entertaining any preconceived notions. No Judgments.

      • When you are grounded and in the flow, first impressions are usually correct.

      • Faint stirrings—Respect the weakly articulated impressions as strongly as you do the loud raps of intuition.

      • Active-passive—Intuition can come passively, like a “flash out of the blue” or actively when you ask a question and patently wait for a reply.

      • Enhanced receptivity—Letting go of tension or stress helps you relax and receive the pictures, images and symbols sent by the intuitive mind. Practice: Music & Silence, Movement & Relaxation, Meditation & Complete Chaos.

      • Associate—Freely associating to the imagery sent by the intuitive mind will help you unravel the underlying meaning of the symbols.

• Playful moments—Enjoy the intuitive process.  Fun and levity weaken analysis and strengthen the intuitive flow. Combine whacky ideas, see what emerges.

Please join me from 7-9pm on Friday evening in San Diego!

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Flower drawer mechanic update:

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These critically sized divider blocks for the pivoting mechanic presently on my work bench was something that held up the project for several months, since I was nervous about the accuracy needed to make it all work. One month to think about it, one week making the two jigs, and one hour for milling the 4 little blocks. Insane and difficult little things, which have to be milled to a tolerance of  +/- .002”.  The difficulty was: my reference line could only be based on a 3” long 3/16” screw hole drilled into the end grain of the rough block. Based off the hole, the block was shaped, milled at 90 degrees to the hole, and perfectly sized to fit into an area that connects the top and bottom ring holding the table together, and is visually dividing the drawers on either side. No room for error. Yikes. (see pic)

Here is a short clip of the final operating mechanic for this table!

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Update on Stone Marquetry Class at Marc Adams School of Woodworking

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The Stone Marquetryclass went well at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking (MASW) in Indiana. We worked on two projects, and completed them with good results. thrilled at how excited people got, once the results were in coming in. I will be teaching a one week class at the MASW next year.

Much of current Stone Marquetry work is based in an Asian tradition called Parchin Kari, or Pietra Dura in Europe.


“Pietra dura or pietre dure (see below), called parchin kari in South Asia, is a term for the technique of using cut and fitted, highly-polished colored stones to create what images in stone. It is considered a decorative art. The stonework, after the work is assembled loosely, is glued stone-by-stone to a substrate after having previously been “sliced and cut in different shape sections; and then assembled together so precisely that the contact between each section was practically invisible”.

Stability was achieved by grooving the undersides of the stones so that they interlocked, rather like a jigsaw puzzle, with everything held tautly in place by an encircling ‘frame’. Many different colored stones, particularly marbles, were used, along with semiprecious, and even precious stones. It first appeared in Rome in the 16th century, reaching its full maturity in Florence. Pietra dura items are generally crafted on green, white and black marble color base stones. Typically the resulting panel is completely flat, but some examples where the image is in low relief were made, taking the work more into the area of hardstone carving.” (source)

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