My first intarsia attempt

[Allen levine]

Finished glueing up

needs some final sanding with small dremel and then some lacquer 

best I can do with those small pieces and arthritic fingers

wife likes it she held up for pic 

need to smooth out sanding on sand pile under tower made of cherry

the small dremel drum sander can even put some of the transitions to each species a bit better at least I think so

Edited November 10, 2024 by Allen levine

[rjweb]

Excellent job, RJ

[Allen levine]

Finished did  not of sanding on some small transition areas and sprayed some lacquer 

will move on to one more in her book the boy on the swing only because my 4 year old grandson loves the swing

[Peter N White]

It looks good.

[Allen levine]

Next one from her book

inwasnt too keen on some of the others but decided to do the  oh on swing as my grandson loves the swing

using wood in my rack don't have yellow heart or whatever that yellow wood is I substituted white cedar for hair sapele for shirt and cherry for pants

oak for swing

heres where I'm at just peeled away some paper to see contrasting colors

[barb.j.enders]

You need to start a new thread for each of your projects!  I almost missed the lighthouse.

This is looking very good.

The nice thing about this hobby it putting your own "swing" on things.  Not everyone wears the same colour of clothing, so you shouldn't always use the woods listed.  

[Allen levine]

55 minutes ago, barb.j.enders said:

You need to start a new thread for each of your projects!  I almost missed the lighthouse.

This is looking very good.

The nice thing about this hobby it putting your own "swing" on things.  Not everyone wears the same colour of clothing, so you shouldn't always use the woods listed.  

Thankyou for kind comments

As of right now I will only be using what I have on my rack 

I have sapele hard maple Spanish cedar White cedar walnut small amount of oak (I don't use oak for furniture ) poplar some pine a lot of 2 bys but haven't used them cherry and some ipe which I don't think I could cut with scroll saw

anfew other pieces of spalted maple spalted other species from my days of turning and some small pieces of olive and other turning species

eventually I'll get into some exotic species if I feel a piece requires it and I get better at this

[Scrappile]

I have cut both Cherry and IPE on my scroll saw.  For the Cherry, I use painter's tape on it to help prevent burning.  The IPE was not more than 1/2" thick, but it cut nicely.

[Allen levine]

1 hour ago, Scrappile said:

I have cut both Cherry and IPE on my scroll saw.  For the Cherry, I use painter's tape on it to help prevent burning.  The IPE was not more than 1/2" thick, but it cut nicely.

What blade did you cut ipe with?

[Scrappile]

2 hours ago, Allen levine said:

What blade did you cut ipe with?

I rarely use bigger blades so it was probably a #3 Pegas Skip tooth or a Modified Geometry