Lion's head

[jscottj]

Lion's head intarsia made for a coworker's boyfriend's 50th birthday. Judy Gale Roberts pattern. WRC, aspen, walnut, and mahogany.

[heppnerguy]

Excellent piece. You did a wonderful job on this. I can not say enough good things about it. I do some intarsia but I don't come even close to your ability. Looking forward to seeing a lot more of your work

 

 

Dick

heppnerguy

[amazingkevin]

Lion's head intarsia made for a coworker's boyfriend's 50th birthday. Judy Gale Roberts pattern. WRC, aspen, walnut, and mahogany.

Lion's Head finished.JPG

you've done an explicable job on this on.you went the extra mile and then some.Incredible hand carved features not found on many intarsias. :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

[wombatie]

That looks amazing.  I love the texture that you have given to the piece.  Well done.

 

Marg

[Bpardue]

looks very nice, your coworker's boyfriend will be very happy. Texture work turned out very nice. 

[Scrolling Steve]

You did good !....Wow to that fit and finish, just Wow !

[daveww1]

excellent project, you did a great job, I'm sure he'll love it.

[meflick]

I agree.  Looks awesome.  I saw your post on the Intarsia Nuts Facebook page yesterday. (I don't have Facebook account so couldn't post there to tell you looked great.)  I was amazed at the detail in it.  You did a great piece and I am sure that your coworker and her boyfriend will be extremely pleased with it.  Thanks for sharing the pic of your work over here.

[Scrappile]

Nice job!

[dgman]

Excellent work Scott!!

[Wosta]

Amazing love to have skill to do something like that love it

[LarryEA]

Intarsia artists are amazing. A great piece.

[Be_O_Be]

  +1 for the above!

[Montserrat]

Wow I just started working on the same one two days ago!  

[jscottj]

Wow I just started working on the same one two days ago!  

Looks good so far. The wood choices look good. How are you going to texture the mane? I don't have a wonder wheel like Judy uses. I used a cut off wheel  for a dremel with a flex shaft on it. Be sure to post the finished project.

[Montserrat]

Yeah I have been wondering about the mane - I only have a dremel, too - but first the shaping.  The wood is cherry, walnut and mystery white (birch?)  cedar for lips and nose.  

 

How did you finish it?  Spray?

[Rolf]

Beautiful piece, one heck of a gift. I hope she puts that into a pre-nup agreement incase the they part ways.  

All kidding aside The detail, fit and shaping are perfect. I assume you used the wonder wheel for the fur. I picked up a new one last year when Judy was at the Fox Chapel open house. It is harder than the original and holds its edge longer.

 

For those of you using a dremel an alternative is a small v groove carving tool, very sharp and watch grain direction. Monsterat the white looks like Aspen unless it is hard.

[Montserrat]

there ya go...  I decided not to detail the mane

[meflick]

there ya go...  I decided not to detail the mane

Looks great both ways, both with the detailing on the mane like jscottj did or here, without it that you did. Thanks for sharing your photos as well. As a newbie, I enjoy seeing others Intarsia work to see how others approach it.

[country girl]

That is really nice. I see a lot of the cutting on things like tails, hair, fur..... I do not know what to call that technique but i would be interested in learning how it is done.

[jscottj]

Beautiful piece, one heck of a gift. I hope she puts that into a pre-nup agreement incase the they part ways.

All kidding aside The detail, fit and shaping are perfect. I assume you used the wonder wheel for the fur. I picked up a new one last year when Judy was at the Fox Chapel open house. It is harder than the original and holds its edge longer.

 

For those of you using a dremel an alternative is a small v groove carving tool, very sharp and watch grain direction. Monsterat the white looks like Aspen unless it is hard.

I don't own a wonder wheel yet. I used a cut off wheel for a dremel with a flex shaft on it using it to grind a groove sorta like the wonder wheel does. I have a couple of dremel carving bits, but find them hard to keep from drifting /pulling in the spring wood to summer wood changes in hardness. Practice may help with that though.