Monday, July 30, 2012

Penrose Triangle Marquetry


My latest woodworking project was to do a simple marquetry top for a plain wooden box I had. I've always like all of Escher's Impossible things, and thought the Penrose Triangle would be a nice, and simple project. I actually spent more time choosing the veneers to get the right shading effect, than it took me to do the cutting! I applied several coats of gloss poly on it to give it a durable finish since the box will be handled quite a bit.

 
 

2 comments:

Scotts Photography and things said...

Is the whole board veneer? or just the triangle?
I love it by the way

Unknown said...

Thanks very much! The whole top is veneer glued onto the top of a wooden box.