Intarsia Tap Handles and Tower

[wdkits1]

Hi Everyone

Been awhile since I've had any scrolling to show , but thought you all might like to see one of the projects that I recently completed. This was a commissioned job done for a client here in Midlothian,VA. Keith has been working on his home pub and needed some custom tap handles made that would have his logo included on the handles.

 

I invited Keith to see my Intarsia work and we decided to create the logo using intarsia. Talk about a challenge!!!. The logo is 3" in diameter which when scaled out means the letters are less than 1/4" tall. Now I've cut plenty of small pieces before but to actually inlay a 1/4" letter into a background is pretty tedious. Anyways here is a pic of the prototype logo. Each logo consists of 40 pieces from 10 different woods.

That little black spec is the letter"E"

I also turned the tap handles from mahogany and attached them to the top with a dowel and epoxy.

Finished Tap handle

I also created the tower for the set-up from mahogany.

So here is the completed Tap handle and tower set-up after installation in Keith's pub.

Keith did a great job on the pub set-up and brews some great tasting beer.

This was a fun project

[Travis]

Wow. That looks like an amazing project. Love the tap handles. Cutting those letters would make me crosseyed. How the beer is labeled is pretty clever too. Nicely done. Hopefully he'll give you a key to his home pub.

[Clayton717]

those look great.well done Mike

[wombatie]

Wow they are amazing. You have remarkable skills.

 

Marg

[heppnerguy]

very impressive....obviously a job done with love.....I would hate to have anyone touch them...wonderful, amazing work....

[inspirations]

A great job TOP MAN this size Intarsia is not easy to make.From one Intarsian to another.

well done

Brian

[amazingkevin]

Nothing short of great comes from mike!Your allways running on all 8 cyclinders when it comes to intarsia!