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Well, I must have sat so far in the back of the LJ classroom that I was in a different building. I started to cut this piece in the Spring when KoryK's class had started and then various delays with the expansion of my workshop and getting sidetracked into starting up my lathe kept me from finishing this intarsia piece sooner. Over this past week while waiting for a new bandsaw to arrive, I went back to the frog, and I began to tweak the fit with some of the pieces, shape, sand and sand some more and finally finish, assemble and glue to the backer. Thanks again to KoryK for taking the time to produce and upload this intarsia frog project.

I used poplar and sycamore for the frog body, ebony, holly and redheart for the eyes and mahagony for the branch. I learned a lot with this piece and because I can be such a perfectionist I wound up cutting 5 or 6 pieces over…one of them three times! Although not perfect, I am still very happy with how it turned out. I'll now have to start splitting time between intarsia and wood turning, as I really like both areas of woodworking.

For those of you considering trying intarsia, look through KoryK's class and if you have the desire, a little bit of patience, you can achieve some great results with little or no experience as I did.

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nice
 

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Love it!
 

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Really nice job on this piece sir!
 

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Very cool Joel
 

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Your frog turned out beautiful!!!!! The shaping and colors are great.
 

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Great job, I just ran across his pattern that I printed. I really want to do make this and attempt this style of woodworking… I got two more weeks on crutches before I get to go back in the shop. I must do this first.
I really great job on this…
 

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Very nice jfk .I am interested in intarsia just havent had the time to start .
 

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I Love It!!!!
Very Nice Work!
 

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That is incredible! Beautiful work. I'm gonna try the class. Thank you for the inspiration
 

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As I have said to students who are down on themselves. "It doesn't matter if you are first or last, as long as you learn it." Ya did good!
 

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One happy little kermitty the groggy froggy looks great I need to get back to my intarsia strangely enough the last project I made was a groggy froggy too Have fun. Alistair
 

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Wow this is inspiring! Well done.
 
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