Inleg

We cut veneer into pictures and lay it flat into furniture, by hand, in Salt River

Marquetry, stringing and inlay repair. Panels off the shelf, and commissions taken.

See what is on the bench

Ready to leave the workshop

The woods
The woods
The saw
The saw
The press
The press
The finish
The finish

A panel is four days of cutting and forty minutes of gluing

Everything gets one chance under the press. If the packet is wrong when the glue goes on it stays wrong, so all the thinking happens days before that.

See the panels

The workshop, by year

2011 · The start — two rooms off Voortrekker Road, one press, borrowed saws 2014 · The first bar front — blistered maple, twelve panels, a pub in Woodstock 2016 · Salt River — the press came off a farm outside Wellington and still runs 2019 · The cellar table — ten metres of chevron banding, laid over one weekend 2021 · Our own stringing — boxwood sawn and dyed here instead of imported 2023 · The Cape armoire — a stolen inlay replaced for a family in Swellendam 2024 · The compass rose — sixteen points, for the yacht club at Simon’s Town 2026 · Saturday mornings — the bench is open to anyone who wants to watch

Come to the workshop

14 Kent Street, Salt River, Cape Town Weekdays 08h00–16h30, Saturday 08h00–12h00 021 447 2189 Bring the panel, or bring the measurements.