men's valet

[steve_g]

Here’s a man’s “valet” I was asked to make… The artwork was provided by the customer. They had seen my turquoise inlay work and wanted green or emerald inlay in walnut, since emerald frit was $3000.00 per ounce, we decided to go with glass frit! I used “Hobby Lobby” stained glass ground up with the same mortar and pestle I use to pulverize turquoise.

I sorted the glass frit into varying coarseness, filled the carved areas with the largest first and then worked up to the very fine powder. This technique gave the finished inlay “depth”

The White inlay is very finely ground Italian marble.
The frit was fused using the super glue technique taught by Wayne locke two Austin bot camps ago…