Sunfish

[Bishop]

Tried something a little different, I guess you could call it a 3D intarsia. We cut the fish as a left and right hand intarsia and then glued them together and shaped them.

Homer & Carol

[Phantom Scroller]

Now they are beautiful I would like them on my desk.

 

 

Roly

[keefie]

that is gorgeous, very nice work,but I think your sunfish is different to the ones we get off out coast in the summer months. See the link to a description of them.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish

 

 

Keith.

[amazingkevin]

I'm totally impressed. Good golly! What is going to show up next here in the village .Show and tell exemptlfied.to say the least. someone has really done their homework on this project. Unbelievable quality!personified!

[amazingkevin]

ARR! I'M GOING CRAZY TRYING TO SEE BISHOPS GALLERY AND THERE IS NONE .WITH THIS KIND OF WORKMANSHIP IM ENTHALLED.

[bobscroll]

Homer & Carol, That is one heck of piece of work you've done

there, It is a piece of art!!!, Thank you for showing your work,

Bob  

[ChelCass]

Very Very nice, thanks for sharing.

[trailfndr]

Absolutely awesome work.  I love the idea of making it a stand alone piece that looks great from all sides.  May have to try that if I do the right pattern for it.

[wombatie]

Wow that is really thinking outside the box. Its awesome. Definitely a 10/10 for that one.                     

 

Marg

[Fab4]

Hi Homer & Carol:

This is insanity at it's best.

I've seen some awesome intarsia work in the past

but this is beyond awesome - Is "awesomer" a real word

Thanks for showing us your work

 

One more thing before I go

Can you please direct Kevin to your Gallery before he pops a nerve.....(lol)

Thanks

Fab4

[Huntter2022]

that is gorgeous, very nice work,but I think your sunfish is different to the ones we get off out coast in the summer months. See the link to a description of them.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish

 

 

Keith.

Keith, this is are sunfish 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrarchidae

[Bishop]

Thanks everyone for the kind words, this is just something we wanted to give a try. Were still trying to think of a subject for our next attempt.

Keith I think we will rename this piece as FUNFISH as it really was a lot of fun.

Kevin sorry we don't have a Gallery as of yet, don't seem like we have time for everything!!!!!

Thanks again everyone

Homer & Carol

[keefie]

I assumed there were a couple of differend types of "Sunfish" and I certainly wasn't trying to take anything away from the fantastic work you have done in producing the sunfish, it was just my curiosity as I had only heard of the ocean sunfish. But you have made a wonderful job in making your fish and there is no need to rename it. I would love to try something like that sometime - maybe when I get a LOT more courage to attempt it.  Just one silly question,  How did you get all the scales on the body of the fish?

 

Keith.

Edited July 10, 2013 by keefie

[Bishop]

Keith

We did not take exception to the comment but I must admit I've never seen a fish like that before.

The scales are done using a small hammer on the harder woods and by hand on the softer woods. The tool is made from a 3/16" brass tube and sanded at an angle.

Homer & Carol

[Huntter2022]

Nice tip on making the scales , 

Keith I never heard of a ocean sunfish , so it was a learning experance for me as well 

great job on the fish maybe one day I'll get that good

[spirithorse]

Great work!
Another intarsian using the user name Doc Ragiarn or something similar to that

also used that technique but, in one example, he made one side of horse and

then made the other side of the horse with the legs in different positions and glued them

together making a totally realistic statue of a horse that looked like it had to be completely carved!
I keep wanting to try that concept but, never have the time and ambition.

Once again, great work you have done! Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

[keefie]

Great way of making the scales, it looks like a "brass pen tube" set in a handle.  - I think you might have hit it too hard when you put the scales on the head, you seem to have decappitated it    I definately must attempt something like that soon.

 

Keefie.

[Bishop]

Spirithorse, funny you should mention doing the sides different as we have a Tiger on the drawing board that we are trying to do that very thing with. Not sure how long that project will take but will keep everyone posted.

Keith we did hit the head pretty hard and it fell off LOL But its amazing what you can do with a tube of glue!!!

If anyone would like to try this fish as a challenge project let us know and when we get the pattern done we will start a challenge thread.

God Bless

Homer & Carol

[multitom]

Like Fab4 said seen many Intarsia projects, none like this! Absolutely amazing :-). Beautiful work of art.

[Clayton717]

That is very cool. I would like to try it. Always up for a challenge.

[grampa]

Now that's nice, love them great job....Paul

[smitty0312]

Great job, I am totally impressed also! Thanks for sharing your talents!

[heppnerguy]

     Now you all  know why I consider Homer and  Carol to be the best there is in intarsia. Homer, I guess I better get with it and make me an intarsia pattern, like we talked about...

[Bishop]

Thanks everyone. Come on Dick lets see one.

Were still trying to get the 3D tiger worked out.

God Bless

Homer & Carol

[Sparkey]

That is very cool. Great job Bishop.