On this video, we hand around in the store with Hugo Nakashima Brown as he walks us by how he makes use of the Shaper Origin to arrange and lower clear, super-precise marquetry. Hugo started creating these marquetry portraits throughout his winter residency at Penland this yr: you possibly can learn extra about his ideas behind the idea right here. By lately introducing the Shaper Origin into his arsenal, he was capable of make these items on a bigger scale.
Hugo begins by exhibiting how he will get issues arrange: prepping veneers, taking note of grain course, and ensuring every part is secured so it’s prepared for reducing. He additionally walks by his Origin setup: laying down ShaperTape on a proud floor, matching the thickneess of his business veneers, scanning the workspace, and loading his design proper onto the instrument. It’s a extremely easy workflow and takes lots of the guesswork out of lining issues up.
When he will get into the reducing, you see why he makes use of the Origin’s inbuilt options for marquetry. As a substitute of doing every part with a knife or fret noticed, he makes use of the Origin’s tremendous changes and offset controls to get tremendous clear, tight-fitting elements. He mentions you possibly can obtain this with a CNC as nicely, simply by making a number of changes. Chopping the optimistic and damaging items off the identical digital file means the veneers match collectively nearly completely, which is large while you’re coping with tiny, delicate shapes. In the event you’re interested by marquetry, or simply wish to see a extremely sensible workflow in motion, Hugo’s course of is stuffed with concepts you possibly can convey proper into your individual store.
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