Mara
@silverhairsawdust.bsky.social
Pronounced like Mara-thon. She/her. Woodworking, marquetry, gardening, house projects, Fargo The (no longer) Terrible
I took my first ever woodworking class. It was a hand tool (Wharton Esherick inspired) 3 leg stool class at The Philadelphia Furniture Workshop. I’m pretty pleased with how it came out. Worth the sore hands and muscles 😆 Take care of yourselves and each other as best you can. #woodworking
June 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I took my first ever woodworking class. It was a hand tool (Wharton Esherick inspired) 3 leg stool class at The Philadelphia Furniture Workshop. I’m pretty pleased with how it came out. Worth the sore hands and muscles 😆 Take care of yourselves and each other as best you can. #woodworking
My previous post was still pictures. Here’s a video of the finished falling maple leaves #marquetry piece. Silence is complicity. Take care of yourselves and each other as best you can.
June 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My previous post was still pictures. Here’s a video of the finished falling maple leaves #marquetry piece. Silence is complicity. Take care of yourselves and each other as best you can.
One year later the falling leaves piece is finished…til I figure out what to do with it and actually do it. Thank you for the supportive comments on this one. Silence is complicity. #marquetry #woodveneer
June 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
One year later the falling leaves piece is finished…til I figure out what to do with it and actually do it. Thank you for the supportive comments on this one. Silence is complicity. #marquetry #woodveneer
This is a good project to work on when my brain is too horrified/distracted by the hate, intolerance, chaos and cruelty of this admin and those who support it to use tools that require focus. #marquetry
June 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is a good project to work on when my brain is too horrified/distracted by the hate, intolerance, chaos and cruelty of this admin and those who support it to use tools that require focus. #marquetry
Thank you for the lovely compliment!! It’s actually thin veneer taped together that I’ll glue onto a backer. I’ve taped the front and I’m removing the small bits of tape from the back.
June 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thank you for the lovely compliment!! It’s actually thin veneer taped together that I’ll glue onto a backer. I’ve taped the front and I’m removing the small bits of tape from the back.
Posting this today is my small act of resistance to the raging dumpster fire. Lots to do yet including replacing the border and getting through glue up. Then I need to decide what to do with it. #marquetry
June 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Posting this today is my small act of resistance to the raging dumpster fire. Lots to do yet including replacing the border and getting through glue up. Then I need to decide what to do with it. #marquetry
A gift for the youngest and her wife to memorialize a tree they tried unsuccessfully to nurse back to health.
June 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A gift for the youngest and her wife to memorialize a tree they tried unsuccessfully to nurse back to health.
The English walnut console table is done!! Finished with @totalboat.bsky.social Wood Honey. #woodworking
May 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The English walnut console table is done!! Finished with @totalboat.bsky.social Wood Honey. #woodworking
English walnut and scrap/epoxy table update: Making progress on the base. Currently working on bottom stretcher joinery then next is final sanding before glue-up. Grateful to have a project to focus my dumpster fire anxiety on. #woodworking
May 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
English walnut and scrap/epoxy table update: Making progress on the base. Currently working on bottom stretcher joinery then next is final sanding before glue-up. Grateful to have a project to focus my dumpster fire anxiety on. #woodworking
Okay, it took just short of forever but the top of the English walnut and scrap/epoxy console table is done and I’m really really pleased. Thank you to those of you following along and huge thanks to @totalboat.bsky.social for the epoxy mold, epoxy and Wood Honey finish!!! #woodworking
May 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Okay, it took just short of forever but the top of the English walnut and scrap/epoxy console table is done and I’m really really pleased. Thank you to those of you following along and huge thanks to @totalboat.bsky.social for the epoxy mold, epoxy and Wood Honey finish!!! #woodworking
The English walnut and scrap/epoxy console table top is finished. Here is a sneak peek. Now I just need to get moving on the base. #woodworking
May 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The English walnut and scrap/epoxy console table top is finished. Here is a sneak peek. Now I just need to get moving on the base. #woodworking
The English walnut and scrap/epoxy console table is progressing…slowly. But any progress is progress. Included a water pop for a hint of finished colors. Take care of yourselves and each other as best you can. #woodworking #consoletable
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The English walnut and scrap/epoxy console table is progressing…slowly. But any progress is progress. Included a water pop for a hint of finished colors. Take care of yourselves and each other as best you can. #woodworking #consoletable
1/ My youngest is incredibly talented and needed a multi-purpose workbench for book and print making, sewing, paper cutting and storage. The paper cutter will be added later. I built this for her.
April 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
1/ My youngest is incredibly talented and needed a multi-purpose workbench for book and print making, sewing, paper cutting and storage. The paper cutter will be added later. I built this for her.
Finished the fourth of the five falling leaves in this #marquetry piece. Started it last June and, working on it sporadically, might get it finished by this June…maybe. #woodworking
April 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Finished the fourth of the five falling leaves in this #marquetry piece. Started it last June and, working on it sporadically, might get it finished by this June…maybe. #woodworking
I’m going with a #walnutwednesday post. Here is a walnut slab top and old oak flooring base coffee table I built a few years ago. Epoxy to fix a corner void and novice through tenons included. #woodworking
April 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I’m going with a #walnutwednesday post. Here is a walnut slab top and old oak flooring base coffee table I built a few years ago. Epoxy to fix a corner void and novice through tenons included. #woodworking
These were some other options I tried 😊
April 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
These were some other options I tried 😊
Still pondering the board layout for the console table top while trying to maintain in this dumpster fire. #woodworking
April 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Still pondering the board layout for the console table top while trying to maintain in this dumpster fire. #woodworking
Can you see an English walnut console table in here? #woodworking
April 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Can you see an English walnut console table in here? #woodworking
Happy 11th birthday to Fargo The (no longer, thank goodness) Terrible!! #rescuebreed #boxermix
April 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Happy 11th birthday to Fargo The (no longer, thank goodness) Terrible!! #rescuebreed #boxermix
Thank you for all of the wonderful comments on my most recent maple leaf. It’s hard to post with the dumpster fire growing daily but I truly believe art helps. I have some other marquetry leaves and flowers earlier in my feed. Here’s a larger one I did for a maker swap. #marquetry #woodworking
April 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Thank you for all of the wonderful comments on my most recent maple leaf. It’s hard to post with the dumpster fire growing daily but I truly believe art helps. I have some other marquetry leaves and flowers earlier in my feed. Here’s a larger one I did for a maker swap. #marquetry #woodworking
Here is the finished leaf. I kind of love the pop of blue. #marquetry #woodworking
April 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Here is the finished leaf. I kind of love the pop of blue. #marquetry #woodworking
Progress on the most recent marquetry maple leaf. #marquetry #woodworking
March 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Progress on the most recent marquetry maple leaf. #marquetry #woodworking
Future console table…if I can un-jumble the design variations in my brain and settle on one.
March 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Future console table…if I can un-jumble the design variations in my brain and settle on one.