Basic Priciples of Making Segmented Blanks
1. Prepare the chosen wood blanks into identically sized dimensions using a bandsaw or even gluing blanks together if needed.
2. Accurately arrange the prepared blanks one on top of another on the bandsaw table.
3. Bandsaw through the combined blanks to create pairs (or triples etc dependent upon how many stacked blanks used)




4. Having prepared thin lengths of accurately cut wood (ideally with a table-saw for best results) to compensate for the width of the bandsaw cut (aka the "Kerf ") in order that the sawn parts will reassemble to the original dimensions, exchange one part of one blank with its matching part of another blank and glue them so that they sandwich their kerf strip.
5. With these new blanks stacked on the bandsaw table again, further pass(es) can be made.
6. As with 4. above, the cutout(s) of one blank can be exchanged with its matching cutout(s) of another, before reassembled parts with intertwined kerf strips are glued together.
Rhob William's examples below illustrate how this principle can produce
spectacular results.
(click for close up view)
