This is a work in progress for my homemade ereader cover. I decided to use my broken septagram design from about a year ago, because it has many possible meanings and I like to tell people different things just to be difficult.

Marquetry has been an uphill climb for me. I started with a chessboard, and moved on to something incredibly complex in comparison. I’m glad I did the chessboard first, but goddamn.

My original design was too wudgy (technical term) for accurate cuts, so I’ve had to refigure some of the pieces and work them together gradually. I’ll probably also have to redo the outside circular pieces. By the time the middle was together, the geometry of those parts were too far out of true to recover.

I’ll post again when it’s finished, but it’s been such a long road to get this far that I felt like sharing.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Here’s where it’s currently at, roughly. The tape is there to hold the pieces together while I get the fit right. Once they’re pretty well matched I tape the front, and glue the back to a piece of paper. I’ll probably also do a little black coloured wood fill here and there. Once the whole design is done I’ll apply it to the ereader cover and surround it with more wood pieces of different colours.