Cairyn terrier

[Allen levine]

Pattern is one of Kathy wises'

its stated for intermediate and I'm a beginner but it's only wood 

I'm trying to make it look somewhat like my sons dog which is a terrier mix rescue dog

species used are sapele Spanish cedar poplar and ebony for eyes and nose

still needs riser blocks and a few thousand hours of sanding

nothing glued up nor any lacquer

this is just pieces cut and laid out

[rjweb]

Another beautiful piece, Allen with you living in long island NY, there is a very active woodworking club in the area, " long island woodworkers", Roft is a member and is active on Scrolling woodworking & crafts, you might want to check them out, RJ

[daveww1]

very nice work

[FrankEV]

Hey Allen, that KW pattern is great and so far you are doing a very good job on your choice of wood and your cutting.  I think the end product will be beautiful.  Howver,  unfortunately the characteristics of the pattern dog and your sons dog pictured are totally different, so I might be concerned that you (and maybe your son) will be disapointed in the final product. 

You stated you are a biginner, so I don't know what your capabilities are using a PC program like Inkscape to create a pattern, but I think that photo could have been turned into a pattern without a lot of difficulty.   If you can't do it yourself there are many on this forum who are capable of makeing a pattern and are more thatn willing to do so for others.  Intarsia patterns are actually more simple than fret type patterns, especially if you don't need the piece neumbers and instructions.  

Just my two cents.

[Allen levine]

On 12/23/2024 at 4:11 PM, FrankEV said:

Hey Allen, that KW pattern is great and so far you are doing a very good job on your choice of wood and your cutting.  I think the end product will be beautiful.  Howver,  unfortunately the characteristics of the pattern dog and your sons dog pictured are totally different, so I might be concerned that you (and maybe your son) will be disapointed in the final product. 

You stated you are a biginner, so I don't know what your capabilities are using a PC program like Inkscape to create a pattern, but I think that photo could have been turned into a pattern without a lot of difficulty.   If you can't do it yourself there are many on this forum who are capable of makeing a pattern and are more thatn willing to do so for others.  Intarsia patterns are actually more simple than fret type patterns, especially if you don't need the piece neumbers and instructions.  

Just my two cents.

I don't like to bother anyone 

unasked for my granddaughter and it came out after someone hooked me up with a pattern

I knew it wasn't going to look exactly like the dog but it's the dog they wanted meaning my son and wife

they saw it after I cut all pieces and loved it

Unfortunately I messed up the glue up and two pieces shifted 

I never should have brought it into my house to glue up

kiddies were all over curious and not using accelerator on glue two pieces shifted perhaps due to tiny hands touching it I don't know but when I came back after a phone call I noticed the glue up was off

I tried rapping it on the table hoping maybe it would break apart

i then thought about cutting the parts out carefully but myndaughteinlaw said she loves it and didn't care about the gap

so I'm going to move o  to next one

abive the nose the two pieces touching the top of the nose shifted and that's how it stayed 

before glue up they fit fine

live and learn 

eventually I will do this niece again  different species I have six full sized copies made so I'm ready to go whenever

[Allen levine]

This did not turn out anywhere near what I thought

i showed it before to my daughter-in-law who I made it for and she thinks it's the cats meow or whatever the expression is 

too many gaps with glue up

ill move on and retry this one later on

i glued up some 3/4 maple and made a plate to attach it to to hang

everyone who saw it told me how great it is

so the trick to intarsia is to show the work to people who don't get it hehehe

im hoping I get there one day and turn out book quality pieces 

[Allen levine]

On 12/23/2024 at 4:11 PM, FrankEV said:

Hey Allen, that KW pattern is great and so far you are doing a very good job on your choice of wood and your cutting.  I think the end product will be beautiful.  Howver,  unfortunately the characteristics of the pattern dog and your sons dog pictured are totally different, so I might be concerned that you (and maybe your son) will be disapointed in the final product. 

You stated you are a biginner, so I don't know what your capabilities are using a PC program like Inkscape to create a pattern, but I think that photo could have been turned into a pattern without a lot of difficulty.   If you can't do it yourself there are many on this forum who are capable of makeing a pattern and are more thatn willing to do so for others.  Intarsia patterns are actually more simple than fret type patterns, especially if you don't need the piece neumbers and instructions.  

Just my two cents.

Frank I had trouble with the download so my son will be here next weekend and fix it all

[Allen levine]

He installed it late last night

he logs on from his house and handles my computer headaches 

there's so much to learn so I'll be going at a slow pace I'm not computer savvy 

[Scrappile]

Allen, you are getting "there" very fast.   You are producing things I hesitate to try and do them very well.  I am not sure I will ever be good at intarsia, the shaping would be the most difficult for me.  I do not have an artist's eye.  I can follow a pattern, but anything above that usually is not for others to view.

Edited December 31, 2024 by Scrappile

[Allen levine]

Nah the full sized one isn't coming out anywhere near what I'd like

i cut I recut them have to recut other pieces and it's like a domino effect

once the pieces leave gaps it just increases the gaps further down the assembly

i I don't give up but need to stay in my lane

gotba long way to go

i might glue up section by section and then cut a slim piece to fill in a gap and make it look like part of the original design

[barb.j.enders]

It is looking good. 

There is a video on Cy's Corner that shows how to fix cutting spaces. https://www.youtube.com/@CysCorner

 

[Allen levine]

Yeah I need to keep learning 

this full sized glue up was going great till the last 4 or5 pieces on center head

intried to fill in gaps and that was a disaster so I removed it with xacto blade then piece fell and I had to try to fix a tiny chip and made it worse

so so I'm done 

my son says he loves it and can't wait to hang it with the other piece

i wont lose sleep over it but will try a bit harder on next one 

[Tomanydogs]

I think it looks great. Well done.