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A nice little intarsia piece I did last year on commission from a photo provided my Millies owner. All the colors are natural wood with three coats of danish oil to bring out the grains and protect the wood. This one is about 9 inches.
Woods used: Pine, poplar, fir, ebony, mahogany, rosewood, walnut, and aspen.
I’ve never worked from a purchased pattern, instead I make all my patterns myself and try not to make copies unless it is part of the commission. I prefer them to be one of a kind. I also do much more shaping and ad in extra glue steps in order to shape two woods together (see the eyes and upper jaw for examples).
-- I love dogs. People, not so much.
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Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 493 days ago
Hi Dogwood,
A great job for sure. I had to get my glasses out to determine out which one was the dog!
Very fine workmanship.
Lee
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trifern
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posted 493 days ago
Very cool! Thank you for sharing.
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SPHinTampa
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posted 493 days ago
Great likeness
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thetimberkid
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posted 493 days ago
Very cool!
Thanks for the post
Callum
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ratchet
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posted 493 days ago
Nice work! Very close to the image provided.
brianinpa
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posted 493 days ago
I wish I had that kind of patience. Great job.
-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.
EduWood
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posted 493 days ago
Wonderful piece. Intarsia is on my “gotta try” list. I see work like this and move it farther down the list because a little voice say “I can’t do that.” Thanks for the post.
-- David, O.C., California
Allison
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posted 493 days ago
This is very nice!
I wish I could do something like that without a pattern.
Thanks for sharing!!!
PEACE!!!
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dogwood
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posted 493 days ago
Allison, you would be surprised at how easy it is to make a pattern. I had never heard of intarsia when I started making them. It took about 2 months before my wife showed me a woodworker magazine featuring intarsia. I was just playing around with a scroll saw. So I didn’t know you could buy patterns until I had made about 15 of my own.
-- I love dogs. People, not so much.
Les Hastings
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posted 493 days ago
Very nice Dogwood!
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ND2ELK
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posted 492 days ago
Great looking piece. You did a beautiful job on it. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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