Resting Sea Turtle - Intarsia

[FrankEV]

My 16” x 6 ½” pattern.  Wood used: Blue Pine, Bubinka, Poplar, Yellowheart, and Wenge.  Weathering solution used to darken areas on the flippers.  Clear Gloss Acrylic Finish.  The knot in the Blue Pine Board is not quite as noticable when viewed hung on the wall as seen in the picture.  The board was just a bit too narrow.

 

Comments and critiques allway welcome.

Edited September 11, 2025 by FrankEV

[barb.j.enders]

Another lovely piece Frank.

 

[daveww1]

very nice

[rjweb]

Frank, another excellent job, RJ

[Denny Knappen]

A work of art

[preprius]

Wow.  There is many pieces in this project.  I estimate about 40 pieces just on the big flipper.  All those must be pretty small pieces since the project is only 6.5" high. 
Very well done. 

The spot (knot) under the neck is where the water from his shell soaked the sand.  Very well placement of wood grain.

Me.

Mark Eason

[FrankEV]

1 hour ago, preprius said:

Wow.  There is many pieces in this project.  I estimate about 40 pieces just on the big flipper.  All those must be pretty small pieces since the project is only 6.5" high. 

I note on the pattern the flippers, 'each to be cut from one piece of wood, shape, sand, glue and reassemble' in order to treat like one piece.  The small pieces went back together reasonably easy.  BTW I did did not count the pieces in the Flippers. There are a total 78 pieces including the 3 flippers in this piece.

Edited September 11, 2025 by FrankEV

[Peter N White]

You have got intarsia down pat great job.