This is Marquetry!! Hard to believe eh? Ian says, "I create bespoke marquetry pictures. Every picture is unique, taking advantage of the wonderful tones and contrasts you can only get with natural wood veneers."

Inlaying contrasting and beautiful veneers can be used to express your designs in wood!

Changing up an old favourite!

This tutorial shows how to build a foam mold in order to laminate a chair back using the Thin Air Press.

This is a simple tutorial on laminating fancy veneers to a substrate material

This is about vacuum veneering exotic veneer around a drum in the Thin Air Press. 

A simple veneering project with dramatic results! A laminated veneer checker board.

This tutorial is about using an external mold with the Thin Air Press. Sometimes building a simple wooden form that veneers and the TAP bag can be externally wrapped around, is a better solution than using an internal mold

Time-lapse of a huge vacuum pressing project

A student and I press a large table form using a vacuum bag and external mold. The outer layers are walnut veneer, the inner sheets are made from wobble board. 

The Large Vacuum Pressing pressed in the TAP bag and clamped to the external mold

Get schooled in marquetry from Ian Smith from the Marquetry School