Author name: James Macdonald

Jim Macdonald creates custom guitars, furniture, art, and portraits featuring marquetry and inlay in Burnham, ME. In addition to his own projects, Jim collaborates with luthiers and furniture makers as a marquetry specialist. His work has been commissioned by Gibson Guitar’s Custom Shop and Hinckley Yachts. In 2018, his Allman Brothers tribute guitar entered the collection of their Big House Museum in Macon, GA. In 2024, his Capricorn Studios tribute guitar entered the collection of the Capricorn Studios and Museum, also in Macon. He has taught the double bevel style of marquetry at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, the WoodenBoat School, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program. Recent gallery shows include the traveling exhibition Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet, Marquetry Today at the Wonders in Wood inlay and marquetry conference at the Winterthur Museum, and Maine Wood 2024 at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. In 2025 he curated Free Verse: Explorations in Contemporary Marquetry at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship which featured 21 marquetry works from makers in the US, Canada, England, France, Spain, and Ghana. Along with his artist/ illustrator, creative collaborator wife, Lucky Platt, they at times join forces artistically as Bunkhouse Studios. Macdonald lives and works on the shores of Lake Winnecook in Burnham, Maine.