| Blog series by justoneofme | updated 130 days ago | 10 parts | 17051 reads | 80 comments total |
Part 1: Wedding Mirror Frame
Hi There Lumberjock Friends! At long last, I’m posting from the very start what I hope will be of interest to you all … a very special Intarsia project that has to be completed in time for our daughter’s wedding in August. The design for this mirror frame was completed before the Xmas rush of having our grandkids come into my workshop to work upon their annual Xmas gift making. Then right into the new year, Bill and I were off on a 7 week road trip down south. Now ...
Part 2: Intarsia Wedding Gift
Well … after many hours, compiled into weeks, I’m back with the continuation of this Intarsia Mirror Frame Wedding Gift. My last blog left off with all the many intricate parts cut on my Excalibur scroll saw, waiting for this next stage. Rough shaping of leaves and dogwood petals began. When long fingernails just aren’t enough, sticking a small square of double faced sticky sponge to the end of a dowel certainly helps pick those stubborn little pieces out from the...
Part 3: Intarsia Wedding Gift
Hi Everyone! It’s been hard to concentrate on woodworking with Easter holidays, company, and spring being sprung in the garden … but at last I’m ready to post another continuation of the Intarsia Wedding Gift. The last blog left me ready to begin work upon the framing structure for this mirror … I’m not talking about the finishing frame that will show on the outside! My expertise does not lay in the area of carpentry, framing, etc. And so, when I reach th...
Part 4: Intarsia Wedding Gift
Hello all my ‘Blog Followers’! I know it’s been a while now … but I have been busy. I really wish I could just get into the shop at 9 a.m. and stay there without any interruptions … but those kind of days are few and far between. Life may be down-right interesting around here … but I have felt stirrings of panic every now and then. What?!! How is it these days keep going forward?! Sometimes I swear I’m walking backwards!! The painting has beg...
Part 5: Intarsia Wedding Gift
Hi There Lumberjock Friends! Wow, have I been busy in the workshop!! It definitely feels great when the vision inside starts taking shape on the outside. I really enjoy doing Intarsia, but I think … for me … the fun part is in the painting. The previous blog left off with me starting to glue down all the background sections, so now I’ll continue on. The first coat of paint (acrylics) has been applied to the leaves and pedals, and the branches stained with a ...
Part 6: Intarsia Wedding Gift
I’m Back to Blogging Again! Don’t panic … that’s not me!!! Before I begin, I thought I’d share a couple of photos taken last Friday while a friend and I viewed all the beautiful artworks on display through our local Cowichan Valley Arts Council, on Vancouver Island. I know you will be interested … because Lumberjock Paul Miller ‘Shipwright’ was demonstrating his superior technique of cutting on the Chevalet de Marqueterie he built from scra...
Part 7: Intarsia Wedding Gift
Hi Again Out There In Lumberjock Land! These days are getting crazy with plans to pack up for cabin life, and trying to get my workshop project completed, so I can clean this place up! There are tools mixed in with sundry cabin stuff, and not one clean surface to look at! Like I should complain, eh?!! Let’s see … where did I leave off? Well … painting ‘play time’ on the Intarsia Wedding Gift has almost come to an end. The large sections of background were...
Part 8: Intarsia Wedding Gift
Well … That was no fun! My laptop froze, and I was just about to post my blog. So … now I start again!! Welcome Back to this, the final written entry regarding my Intarsia Wedding Gift. When I left off last time, the Intarsia design was completely finished … spray lacquered and all. And now the time has finally come to prepare the decorative frame. I had a supply of alder and decided to use this because it was thicker than the highest elevation in the cedar des...
Part 9: Summer Intarsia Fun
Wow! Much time has gone by since my last project blog … and there are so many of you I wish to thank for such interesting articles that have entered my Inbox, and the beautiful creativity to view! I thought I had lost all these photos somewhere in cyberspace … but low and behold! There they were, while I was downloading Xmas photos, and arranging albums for the whole hodge-podge of photos I’ve plunked into Picassa for storage. That took way more time than I wished, but ...
Part 10: Summer Intarsia Fun
I’m back! … to finish off blogging about my whimsical Summer Intarsia Fun project. After the pressures involved with commission pieces, this very first Intarsia design created especially for ourselves to enjoy … was pure fun!! I wanted to completely cover the upper portion of wall from mantle to ceiling, and almost as wide as the mantle itself with this Intarsia design. But the largest piece of doorskin wasn’t anywhere near large enough, and so … becaus...
